The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award Archive – with news, open calls, announcements and updates from previous nominees.
Our review panel Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo, Maria Fusco, Gillebride MacMillan, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nadine Aisha Jassat, together with Jeda Pearl Lewis and Kelly Kanayama from Scottish BIPOC Writers Network and Drew Taylor-Wilson from Sanctuary Queer Arts have spent months of careful consideration with this year's entries and we are delighted to announce our 2022 EMPA shortlist.
Below is a selection of poems submitted by the eight poets shortlisted for this year's Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Enjoy…
EMPA 2022 submissions are due on March 31! On March 17 The Edwin Morgan Trust teamed up with the Centre…
The open call for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award (EMPA) 2022 is now closed and the shortlist will be announced…
The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award (EMPA) sits at the core of The Edwin Morgan Trust’s work. The award was conceived…
In August 2020, we partnered with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to celebrate the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. The recorded…
The 2020 winner of the EMPA is Alycia Pirmohamed, who has recently completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh,…
The Edwin Morgan Trust is delighted to announce the poets shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020 are Colin Bramwell,…
The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award supports emerging writers, with a £20,000 bursary awarded biennially for the best unpublished collection of…
The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award supports emerging writers, with a £20,000 bursary awarded biennially for the best unpublished collection of…
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