Poetry Competition Results 2025

Slough Writers was pleased to welcome ex-member Sally East back to the group (via Zoom, but teleportation sadly only exists in our stories) as the judge of the poetry competition. The brief had been to write an Ekphrastic poem, one inspired by a work of art. She provided a detailed set of notes on each of the thirteen entries to the competition, whose inspirations were separated by hundreds of years.

Winners - Sonya (2nd), Lee (Winner), Michael (3rd), Terry (HC)

The results were as follows:

Winner - The Help Desk Is Closed - Lee Taylor

2nd Place - A High Yellow Note - Sonya Weiss

3rd Place - Call Not Us Women Do - Micheal Ranes

Honourable Mention - HC WHAAM! Terry Adlam