TEMPLAR AWARDS & SUBMISSIONS

TEMPLAR POETRY

SUBMISSIONS & AWARDS UPDATE

Straid Collection and iOTA SHOT Pamphlet Awards 2024

We have completed reading all the submissions to our 2024 Straid Collection and iOTA Shot publishing awards. The work received revealed an outstanding range of fine poetry. A single winner emerged in each award, with a significant number of shortlisted poets.

The two winning poets have been notified. The shortlisted poets will be contacted by email during March with an invitation to contribute poetry from their submissions for inclusion in the centenary issue of iOTA magazine.

The 2024 Straid and iOTA pamphlet poets and the shortlisted poets will be announced in our forthcoming newsletter. The new titles and the centenary issue of iOTA will be published in alongside our other new titles in the coming months.

Thank you to all who submitted their work. The

The submissions window for our 2025 Straid Collection and iOTA SHOT Pamphlet Awards will reopen in April 2025

2024 iOTA SHOT AWARDS - CLOSED - Reading Completed

2024 STRAID COLLECTION AWARDS - CLOSED - Reading Completed

The poets for the 2024 Straid and iOTA SHOT awards have been notified

The shortlisted poets will be notified in March 2025 and a selection of their poetry will be published in iOTA - in its centenary issue

iOTA SHOP PAMPHLET AWARD | 2023

John White - Attachments

STRAID COLLECTION AWARDS | 2023

John Mee - The Blue in the Blue Marble

Cliff Forshaw - Elemental

(Forthcoming: March 2025)

STRAID COLLLECTION AWARD | 2022

Mike Barlow: A Land Between Borders

iOTA SHOT PAMPHLET AWARDS | 2022

Lesley Burt: Mr & Mrs Andrews Reframed

Robert Maslen: Much Needed Unrest

*Please note we are unable to consider unsolicited submissions outside our Pamphlet and Collection publishing awards*

The 2021 POCKET PAMPHLET AWARDS

Winner of the 2021 Packet Pamphlet Awards is Claudia Daventry with her pamphlet What Grandma Said

LAUNCHED MARCH 2022 at STANZA, St Andrews

2021 STRAID COLLECTION AWARDS

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2021 Straid Collection Award is Mhairi Owens with her collection Nine Notes on Slippage