Awards & Publications

Here is a list of my awards and of publications that have featured my poems.

Awards

• Won the Hasting Book Festival Sussex Prize for Poetry, 2023 with A Marriage
• Third prize in the Café Writers competition 2023 with The Towel
• Commended in the BHAC competition 2025 for Trebuchet

Publications

The Land Called Me Back

Poems from the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path

The poems in Judith's debut collection are intensely personal responses to the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path and vary greatly in style, focus and intent in an attempt to be true to her experiences. Caroline Bird describes them as:

"Searching, hard-won poems where worlds co-exist, where the line between the past and the present is as faint as a breeze, and sometimes we must follow the path backwards in order to find ourselves."

You can also find Judith’s poems in online magazines, Black Iris and Ink, Sweat and Tears:

• Black Iris Poetry: Smoke
• Black Iris Poetry: Cat
• Ink, Sweat and Tears: A Greener Grass

Her work has also been included in a number of anthologies:

• Ten Poems about Getting Older edited by John McCullough
• Live Canon’s Anthology of longlisted poems for Live Canon International Poetry Prize 2024
• Poet Town edited by Richard Newham Sullivan
• Bird in a Wilderness: A Hastings Stanza Anthology, 2023: Copies available from Judith
• Ginkgo Prize: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty Best Poem of Landscape, Competition Anthology 2021