Congratulations to the Top 15 Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2020!
Anna Gilmore Heezen, Anna Winkelmann, Brigitta McKeever, Daniel Wale, Em Power, Imogen Beaumont, Indigo Mudbhary, Lauren Lisk, Leandra Li, Libby Russell, Linnet Drury, Maia Siegel, Preesha Jain, Victoria Fletcher and Zara Meadows.
Congratulations, too, to the 85 commended poets:
Aashka Vardhman, Ahana Banerji, Ailsa Morgan, Alyssa Theofanidis, Amala Sangha, Amélie Nixon, Anisha Jaya Minocha, Anne Kwok, April Egan, Arabella Green, Artemis Fernihough, Ayra Ahmad, Blessing Verrall, Celeste Herriotts, Celia Mostachfi, Charlotte Hughes, chenrui, Claudia Quin, Connie Alvarez, Divyasri Krishnan, Elise Withey, Eliza Sinclair Kidd, Elsie Hayward, Elyse Thomas, Emily Man, Emily Ng, Erin Hateley, Eshan Fadi, Euan Sinclair, Eve Calvey, Eve Wright, Evie Collins, Florence Bullion, Francesca Morgan, Freya Leech, Grace Phillips, Hannah Eve Kilgore, Helen Roth, Hope Vaughan, Iona Mandal, Jaewon Chang, Jamie See, Janiru Liyanage, Jeanne Everett Meraioth, Jennah Agha, Jonathan Truong, Kate O’Brien, Kerensa Pickering, Kitty Joyce, Kitty Robinson, Lilly Jane Nolan, Lily Celeste Ashby, Liv Goldreich, Lucy Stone, Lucy Waters, Maddie Harris, Madison Averill, Martha Iris Blue, Martha Routledge, Martine Maugüé, Maureen Onwunali, Merrie LeMaître Nugent, Olajuwon-Alhaytham Abdullah Adedokun, Oreva Esalomi, Patricia Ssonko Nalule, Phaedra Wright, Phoebe Z. Barowitz, Priya Abularach, Priya Shrivastva, Ran Zhao, Remi Seamon, Sabrina Guo, Saima Begum, Samiya Saif Ullah, Sarah Fathima Mohammed, Serrina Zou, Sinead Bruce, Sinéad O’Reilly, Sung Cho, Theodora Shillito, Tom Griffin, Vidula Selvan, Zayaan Jamil, and Zoe Dorothy Leary.
Foyle Young Poets, Run by The Poetry Society and generously supported by the Foyle Foundation, this has been an extraordinary 22nd year for The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Since 1998, the Award has been finding, celebrating and supporting the very best young poets from around the world. The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is firmly established as the leading competition for young poets aged between 11 and 17 years old. A staggering 15,966 poems (44% more poems than in 2019 and 47% more than in 2018) from 6,791 young poets (up 14% on 2019 and up 22% on 2018) were entered. Young writers from a record-breaking 118 countries (an increase from 76 in 2019, 79 in 2018) entered the competition from as far afield as Afghanistan, Ecuador, Mozambique, North Korea and the Seychelles, and every corner of the UK.
(From The Poetry Society)