5th November, 2015

Rosie Shepperd Awarded Second Place in LPF Poetry Competition

This year’s Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition had a record number of entries (over 1,500!) and after much deliberation, Judge Deryn Rees-Jones has awarded the Second Prize to Rosie Shepperd, for her poem ‘Break’.
Polly Atkin (Shadow Dispatches) was also commended for her poem ‘Gloria’.
All winners have been invited to read at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2016, and you can read all the winning poems (including Rosie’s) here.
To see the full list of competition winners, visit the Ledbury Poetry Festival website.
Rosie Shepperd’s debut poetry collection, The Man at the Corner Table was published in July.