TEMPLAR PUBLISHING AWARDS & SUBMISSIONS

T e m p l a r P o e t r y

The Templar Pamphlet & Collection Awards

founded 2005

TEMPLAR PAMPHLET & COLLECTION PUBLISHING AWARDS

2025

OPEN for SUBMISSIONS

Straid Collection Awards: Details & Guidelines: CLICK HERE

iOTA Shot Pamphlet Awards: Details & Guidelines: CLICK HERE

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 we received revealed an outstanding range of fine poetry.

Two winners emerged in the Straid Collection award, with a significant number of shortlisted poets.

Straid Collection Award winners 2024

Elemental by Cliff Forshaw

Accepting the Call by Tim Dwyer

The first iOTA Shot Pamphlet Award winner is In the Jewelled Light of Morning by Francis O'Hare.

Two further poets emerged from the iOTA Shot submissions and their work will be published later this year.

Shortlisted poets in both the collection and pamphlet awards are currently being contacted with an invitation to contribute poetry from their submissions for inclusion in the centenary issue of iOTA magazine in late summer.

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.

2024 iOTA SHOT AWARDS

In the Jewelled Light of Morning by Francis O'Hare

2024 STRAID COLLECTION AWARDS

Elemental by Cliff Forshaw

Accepting the Call by Tim Dwyer

Poets whose work is shortlisted in the 2024 awards are currently being notified regarding work we wish to publish in the centenary issue of iOTA Magazine.

iOTA SHOP PAMPHLET AWARD | 2023

John White - Attachments

STRAID COLLECTION AWARDS | 2023

John Mee - The Blue in the Blue Marble

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