Winners & Shortlisted Poems

As part of the 2024 Togetherness Poetry Challenge, we received over 450 submissions of poems brimming with sincere emotion, honesty and vulnerability. 

The panel of poets selected six poems that best responded to the Togetherness theme.

  • Gang Pan

  • Steve Lott

  • Aisha Mohamud

  • Mina Jaff

  • Olga Dermott-Bond

  • Alison Milner

THE DIGITAL ANTHOLOGY

Our judging panel selected over 20 commended poems in addition to the shortlisted finalists. We wanted to give special recognition to a diverse range of poems that brimmed with emotion and hope for a world of radical tenderness.