We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Bangor Poetry Competition, voted on by the public during Aspects Literary Festival.  Huge congratulations!

Winner: Gaynor Kane with ‘Fire-lighting’

Runner Up: Mary Shannon with ‘Depending on the Elements’

Third Prize: Meg McCleery with ‘The Most Unnatural of Natural’

Fourth Prize: Laura Cameron with ‘Still’

Fifth Prize: Lynda Tavakoli with ‘The Big Tree’

Highly Commended: Geraldine Fleming with ‘Pink Blanket’

Commended: Grainne Tobin with ‘County Down Heat Wave’

Read Gaynor Kane’s poem ‘Fire-lighting’ here.  All shortlisted and placed poems shall be published in The Aspects edition of The Bangor Literary Journal.