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2024 Crabbe Memorial Competition Awards Ceremony
The 2024 Crabbe Memorial Competition Awards Ceremony was held on Saturday, 5 October at Diss Methodist Church Hall. Competition Results Highly Commended Commended Competition anthologies are available in the shop.
Finally taking his unused meds back to the chemist – Susan Garrett
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2023 – 3rd Prize Adjudicator – Tamar Yoseloff
On Nostalgia for the Twilight of Cigarette Advertising in Print – Samuel Prince
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2024 – 2nd Prize Adjudicator – Luke Wright
XR – Esther Morgan
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2024 – 1st Prize Adjudicator – Luke Wright

Ben Ridley-Jones
Ben Ridley-Jones (b.1993) spent much of his childhood in the Suffolk countryside with his family which has roots stretching back centuries in the county. He read History at Cambridge before embarking on a career of public service working to address the housing and homelessness crisis in England. For many years a reader of as much…

James Domestic
James Domestic is a poet, musician, songwriter, vocalist, DJ, and painter. James’ poetry has been compared to John Cooper Clarke, Spike Milligan, Ivor Cutler, and Benjamin Zephaniah, amongst others. He holds a doctorate from the University of Essex and has toured across Europe with his band, The Domestics. Having grown up in Essex, he now resides…

Virginia Betts
Virginia Betts is a British author, poet, actor and tutor from Ipswich in Suffolk. She has written four books: The Camera Obscure, a collection of supernatural and noir stories; Tourist to the Sun, a poetry collection, That Little Voice, poetry by Virginia Betts and Burnt Lungs and Bitter Sweets, Virginia’s debut novel, a darkly comic…

David Redfield
David Redfield is a poet, writer, mentor, performer and workshop leader. After graduating in English and Drama from King Alfred’s College, Winchester, David worked in the public sector for a number of years, including a career in Special Educational Needs. His published work includes Stretching Horizons (2002), Utter (2010) – both Hawthorn Press – and Sulla’s Cauldron, with Diane Griffiths, (Cratageus…

Walpole Old Chapel 2024
The 2024 Summer outing at Walpole Old Chapel was held on 9 June. The theme was ‘Non-conforming’, which was very appropriate for the venue. This was the running order: Virginia Betts Masking The unhealthy stuff Synaesthesia Phil Baker What Colour is Nine Low-life James Frankland Labels Keep off the grass Pietà-Beáta Paul McLintic Admit…






