BARE HANDS INTERNATIONAL POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2012

The winning poems and photographs of the competition will be turned into a beautiful postcard and we will distribute these postcards in June to leading independent bookshops in Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto & Vancouver. They’ll be free so people can just pick them up!

March 31st 2012: Our winners and highly commended list have been announced! Read the winning works by clicking the image below.

Poetry Category Winners

Julianne Sibiski & Julia Deakin

Highly Commended

Colm Keegan, Kate Dempsey, Brian Kirk & Samantha Fisher

Photography Category Winners

Olly Griffin & Kate Seibert

Highly Commended

Briana Hornsby, Anders Nilsson, Claire Tupman & Tatyana Stepanova

Bookshops will include…

Shakespeare and Co., Paris

The Abbey Bookshop, Paris

Another Country, Berlin

Woolfson and Tay, Bermondsey, London

Foyles Bookshop, London

Atlantis Books, Santorini

Little Acorns Bookstore, Derry

The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin

The Edinburgh Bookshop, Edinburgh

Powell’s Bookstores, Chicago

Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago

Collected Works Bookshop, Melbourne

Sappho Books, Sydney

Gertrude & Alice Bookstore, Sydney

Type Books, Toronto

McLeod’s Bookstore, Vancouver

Strand Bookstore, New York

City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco

Moe’s Books, San Francisco

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