Poet and publisher Kate Newmann will judge the entries to the 2023 Allingham Festival Poetry Competition.
Kate Newmann is Co-Director of Summer Palace Press, which has published 56 collections of poetry since 1999. As a poet, she is the author of five collections of poetry. She served as Director of the Belmullet Writers' Festival and has judged many poetry competitions, including Northwest Words and Concern Worldwide. She read English at King's College Cambridge and earned MA degrees from Ulster University and from Cambridge. She has written the lives of her antecedents in poems, and she was herself a winner of the Allingham Poetry Competition in 1998.
The 2023 Allingham Poetry Competition is currently open for entries, with a deadline of 22 September. The winning poet will win a €300 prize, and the First-, Second- and Third-Place winners will read their work in an on-line Awards Ceremony on Friday, 10 November.