After a challenging year, it was a wonderful and uplifting experience to host our Young Person's Prize Giving on Zoom recently. In normal circumstances, prizes are awarded at the annual North Cornwall Book Festival but, in fact, holding the event on Zoom actually meant that most of our esteemed winners, ... Read More
As a Trust created and run for the preservation of the life and works of Cornish poet Charles Causley, we were delighted to hear that Roger Robinson’s collection “A Portable Paradise” that paints such vivid imagery of Trinidad using evocatively descriptive language, recently won the Royal Society of Literature’s £10,000 ... Read More
In 2019, for the first time, the Charles Causley Young Person's Poetry Competition was open to entries from across the UK instead of just Cornwall. We were delighted to receive 453 entries and the poems were judged by our Patron, Patrick Gale, and our Trustees Penelope Shuttle and David Devanny, ... Read More
Sponsored by Patrick GaleIn celebration of the work of the Cornish poet Charles Causley, the Young People’s Poetry Competition 2021 aims to encourage and enable young writers to have a go at writing poetry themselves. Charles wrote prolifically for adults and for young people and much of his inspiration came ... Read More
After months of anticipation, we can finally reveal that the winner of the 2018 Charles Causley International Poetry Competition is Judy O'Kane from Ballymena in Northern Ireland with her poem entitled 'Tasting Notes'. Congratulations to Judy who wins £2,000 plus a 1-week residency at Cyprus Well, Charles Causley's former home.
Judy ... Read More
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Charles Causley Young Person's Poetry Competition. Pictured above are the winners with their goodie bags of prizes which were presented at the North Cornwall Book Festival in October. The prizes included the Charles Causley book of Collected Poems for Children, ... Read More