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Mallaig Book Festival

November 8-10, 2024

Announcing The Deirdre Roberts Poetry Competition 2024

This is the third year of our popular poetry competitions which has the magnificent prize of an engraved quaich – the Mary Manson Trophy – plus £250 cash, a further £250 in book tokens to be spent in the Highland Bookshop, or with them online, and a bottle of malt whisky so the winner can toast their success.

The competition is held in memory of our former committee member, the late Deirdre Roberts, who gave so much of her time to the community, and we’re very fortunate in having two extremely generous sponsors, Don & Mary Michie and the Highland Bookshop of Fort William.