We are delighted to announce this year’s Under 18s Poetry Competition winners! From over 150 submissions and after much deliberation this year’s winners are:

Winners – primary school
• 1st – Ava Petrovici (Blean Primary School)
• 2nd – Dylan Rajan-Rankin (Blean Primary School)
• 3rd – Mabel Vigar (Blean Primary School)

Winners – secondary school
• 1st – Elspeth Dunlop (Kent College Canterbury)
• 2nd – Lewis King (The Archbishop’s School)
• 3rd – Vinnie Wickham (Kent College Canterbury)

A huge congratulations to this year’s winners! Submissions across the age categories was of an incredibly high standard and we would like to thank everyone who submitted a poem to this year’s competition. You can read all of this year’s shortlisted poems in our anthology.

Special thanks to Stagecoach for sponsoring this competition.