Damen O’Brien is a multi-award-winning Australian poet. His prizes include The Moth Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, the Welsh International Poetry Competition, the Cafe Writer's Poetry Competition and the Magma Judge's prize.

The Bridport Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the literary world, so you’re in good company. Whether you’re writing poetry, a short story, flash fiction, novel or a memoir, we can’t wait to read your words.

Competition commendations include the Teignmouth and Winchester Poetry Competitions 2021. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize 2021 and Teignmouth’s Devon Poets prize, 2023 and long listed for the Live Canon Open and Waltham Forest Competitions in 2022. Poems also in many journals and anthologies. Recent reviews in the High Window.

Roberta Beary won joint first prize for her poem After You Self-Medicate with Roethke's The Waking Read by Text-to-Speech App, which you can see below, in the prestigious Bridport Prize international creative writing competition.

The Bridport Prize, Bridport. 11,489 likes · 251 talking about this. ️ Worldwide creative writing comp (£20K prize pot) 💷 Raises funds for @BridportArts 📝 Submissions now open for Poetry, Short...