Announcing a major new poetry competition. The Alan Sillitoe Poetry Competition carries prizes of £200 (1st), £100 (2nd), £50 (3rd) and £10 for runners up. The competition will be adjudicated by Ruth Fainlight and is open for submissions until 10th January 2012.

The winners of the Alan Sillitoe Short Story Competition were announced at the Lowdham Book Festival on Saturday 25th June 2011. The judges, David Sillitoe and Nicola Monaghan, were impressed with the standard of entries and the variety of approaches to the subject of ‘What would Arthur Seaton be like in 2011?’