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The Hedgehog Poetry Press. There is a Madness in our Method. Menu The Prize: We will publish your wee collection in time for Saint Valentine’s Day 2022. She writes poetry and fiction and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the National Poetry Competition. Her poetry has been published in The Rialto; Green Ink Poetry; Poetry Salzburg; Stanley Spencer Poems, An Anthology (Two Rivers Press, 2017); Pale Fire, New Writing on The Moon (The Frogmore Press, 2019) and Poems For Gustav Klimt “Pocket Hedgehog Micro Collection Competition” – A Poetry Pamphlet Competition Deadline: 28th February 2025 £ 10.00 Add to basket “The Crimson Spine Pocket Book #5” – A Poetry Pamphlet Competition Deadline: 31st March 2025 £ 25.00 Add to basket 05.12.24: Alwyn Marriage has won the Hedgehog Press full collection prize 2024. 16.07.24: Mary Walsh recently shortlisted for the Sean Dunne Poetry Prize in Waterford, with her poem ‘ Mackerel Fishing in the Gaeltacht’. The Hedgehog Poetry Press launched in October 2017, although our first publication was our magazine ‘A Restricted View From Under The Hedge’ which appeared in late March the following year. We are proud to be the home for the Cult of the Spiny Hog, which is our very own ‘club’ for readers and writers of poetry. Vic has won the Café Writers and Cupid’s Arrow Competitions, and been shortlisted for the National Poetry Day #speakyourtruth prize on YouTube. Vic’s debut pamphlet Lost & Found was released by Hedgehog Press in 2020 and her micro-pamphlet ‘What colour is my brain?’, co-written with Jules Whiting, came out in 2022. Currently working as The Hedgehog Press Proper Poetry Pamphlets will feature 28 pages of poetry by a single author, a converstion between two poets, a combination of poetry and original or public domain artwork, or any mixture of the above. The winner will be published by Hedgehog Press and receive 100 copies of their pamphlet. The entry fee is £25 per pamphlet. The winning collection will be published as a pamphlet by Hedgehog Press in 2026, and the winner will receive 100 copies. To enter, submit a maximum of 16 pages of poetry. Poems must not previously have been published as a collection, but individual poems may have been previously published. The entry fee is £25. Poems featured on BBC Upload Radio Essex, Publications in ‘The Dirigible Balloon’, ‘Outside the Box’, ‘Your Harlow Newspaper’, ‘Dream Catcher Literary Magazine’, ‘Suburban Witchcraft Magazine’, ‘Honourable Mention’ for the ‘Dark Poets Prize 1&2’ 2024 and ‘Joint- Winner’ of The Hedgehog Press ‘Little Black Book Hedgehog Press is now open for submissions for their pamphlet competition, ‘A Proper Poetry Pamphlet Competition’. The Proper Poetry Pamphlets will be A5 in size and have 28 pages available for poetry or images and the contents can be: The work of a single poet A Poetry Conversation featuring the work of two or more poets Well, I am more than rather chuffed to be able to announce that Pre-Orders Are Open for Carmella de Keyser’s astonishingly fine debut collection, featuring artwork from Vanya Milanova and some exceptionally cool poetry. The books is destined for a St Valentine’s Day release and genuinely you will love, love, love it. Poems featured on BBC Upload Radio Essex, Publications in ‘The Dirigible Balloon’, ‘Outside the Box’, ‘Your Harlow Newspaper’, ‘Dream Catcher Literary Magazine’, ‘Suburban Witchcraft Magazine’, ‘Honourable Mention’ for the ‘Dark Poets Prize 1&2’ 2024 and ‘Joint- Winner’ of The Hedgehog Press ‘Little Black Book His first full collection Poetry After Auschwitz was published by Sentinel in 2020. The Hedgehog Poetry Press published his Stickleback micro-pamphlet This Quieter Shore in 2018. His updated version of the mediaeval hymn Stabat Mater was set to music by Nicola Burnett Smith and performed in St. Paul’s Church, Covent Garden in 2019. Author: A pilgrimage from Orta to Varallo with Samuel Butler (Wyvern Works 2010); St Giulio’s Isle, (Wyvern Works 2015); Videotape (Hoepli, Italy);her novel The Monastery won 2nd prize Yeovil 2017; various handbooks for use in seminaries at the Venice Biennale, and articles on folklore and fashion. www.gabrielgriffinpoet.com Her poems have appeared in, The Alchemy Spoon, Fenland Poetry Journal, The Frogmore Papers, Sideways, ARTEMIS poetry, London Grip, Ink Sweat & Tears and These are the Hands NHS Anthology. Her debut pamphlet Patient Watching was published by The Hedgehog Press in January 2022. Well, I probably should have revealed these at the time, but never quite did, but as the year ends it does in fact seem the perfect time to reveal that our nominations for 2024 for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize were The May and June Cult Members-only Challenge - Part Two AND THE WINNERS ARE Well, it took a bit of judging but in the end I genuinely couldn't split two of the wee collections, and so I was proud and pleased and mucho chuffed to discover that it is in fact Two of the Original Members of the Cult who's work captured me, as it were.. So with no further messing around, Verily Many She has also been published in the anthologies Places of Poetry and Beyond the Storm. Some of her poems appeared in Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity, published by Hedgehog Press. Her pamphlet A Spark in the Darkness was also published by Hedgehog Press. Find her on Twitter @Kateyoung12poet. Taking work from collections published by Happenstance Press, Cinnamon Press and the Hedgehog Poetry Press, Selected Poems shows a genius for finding the beauty in the everyday, and a perspective entirely her own. This is a masterful collection of work covering twenty years of the career of a poet that is truly unique. Publications in ‘The Dirigible Balloon’, ‘Your Harlow Newspaper’, ‘Dream Catcher Literary Magazine Issue 49’, shortlisted for the Hedgehog Press ‘A Poetry Pamphlet Competition’ 2024, longlisted for ‘Northern Gravy’ Issue 13, ‘Honourable Mention’ for the ‘Dark Poets Prize’ 2024.
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