SDWC Annual Awards Previous Winners
2024
Edith Courtney Cup
For the member with the most number of winning external competition entries and external publications. This would include entries that have been accepted for publication in anthologies and similar
Stephanie Du Pont
Stephanie DuPont writes to bottle time, sending postcards from places only her heart has been, then tearing up the pieces and reshaping them into poetry. A 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of multiple poetry contests, her work has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Cerasus Poetry, The Seventh Quarry Press, Snakeskin, Reach Poetry, and The Dawntreader. Originally from Miami, she spent years volunteering at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and in the Florida Everglades, where she developed a deep appreciation for nature. When she’s not writing, painting, or teaching yoga, she wonders if she was born in the wrong century.
Avid Reporter Trophy
Awarded for the most non-fiction articles published e.g. news articles, letters, columns.
Joint Winner
Morag Kitson
Avid Reporter Trophy
Awarded for the most non-fiction articles published e.g. news articles, letters, columns.
Joint Winner
Dawn Llewellyn Price
Dawn Llewellyn-Price is a writer living in the Maritime Quarter of Swansea, in South Wales, but spends half the year in the South of Spain. Both these environments are culturally rich, providing a wealth of experiences ready to work their way down her fingertips onto a keyboard, creating endless ideas. She has been a columnist for newspapers and magazines in both countries for years, including Swansea’s own South Wales Evening Post, publishing fiction and non-fiction in UK glossy magazines and writing a screenplay.
Her modern novel ‘White Rabbits’ is set in Swansea and the bays of Gower. Love, luck, lies, and revenge pave the city streets and suburbs with a hefty dollop of superstition, shoes, and champagne in a scenario most of us have only dreamed of…..
Enduring Scribe
Awarded to the writer with the most self-published material.
Alana Beth Davies
Alana Beth Davies is a retired lecturer and politician, who is now spending her time as a full-time writer, editor and publisher. She has written and published three novels and a collection of short stories, as well as a collection of some of her poems. She helps new and aspiring writers by editing and publishing their books, and gives talks and classes on creative writing to community groups.
Topsy Evans Silver Salver
Awarded to the member with the most points for the Circle’s internal prose /short story competitions
Martyn Sullivan
Martyn Sullivan is a writer originally from Cardiff, now naturalised to Swansea where he is gainfully employed to work with spreadsheets. He is also a trade union steward. His short stories have been published in ergot, BFS: Horizons, Gwyllion and elsewhere, his poetry has appeared in The Seventh Quarry and other places too. Away from writing and work, he can be found trapped beneath his cat or by chance and good fortune hiking up and down hills.
Baz Morris Cup
Awarded to the member with the most points for the Circle’s internal poetry competitions
Stephanie Du Pont