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2014 Highly commended in the Roundel Poetry Competition in Tonbridge.

2014 Highly Commended in the Barn Owl Trust poetry Competition.

Awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship 15/11/2013--14/12/2013

Commended in the 2013 Torbay Open Poetry Competition 26/10/13

Honourable mention in the Buzzwords Competition. 27/9/13

Commended in the Portico Prize. 20/9/13

Shortlisted in the 2013 Bridport Prize. 14/9/13

Two poems, 'Evocation' and 'Predator' are commended in the Poets Meets Painters 2013 competition.

Have a poem accepted in the ExLibris inaugural pamphlet to be launched on October 5th as part of the Exeter Poetry Festival.

Two poems to be included in the 'Cardiff Women's Aid Anthology'

Two poems commended in the Poets Meets Painters Competition. See full results .

A fine review by Wendy Klein of my latest collection, 'The Chongololo Club' appears in The North magazine.

PENZANCE LITERARY FESTIVAL 17th--21st July

A Star-Studded Line-Up!

* * Angela France * * Graham Burchell * * Ruth O'Callaghan and other well-known poets

The 2013 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition

is under way again, and as last year's winner I will be one of the three judges. To enter go to http://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk/learning-and-participation/festival-poet-of-the-year.aspx

Offered a place on the Orkney Writers course at St Magnus Festival in June.

Winner of the Little Gold Pencil's 'Night Walk' competition. See the poem here.

3rd in the Fire River Poets inaugural poetry competition.

Winner of Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2012. See Photos (1)(2)(3) taken by Gillian Laker.

Winner of the Dor Kemmyn Poetry Competition. Was interviewed on Radio Cornwall (July 21st) and the poem 'Lena's Gift' was read (twice).

Highly commended in the 2012 Poetry on the Lake poetry competition.

Two poems shortlisted for the 2012 Templar Prize.

Highly commended in the formal section of the 2012 Poetry on the Lake competition--Formal poem section.

Winner of the Swale Life Poetry Competition.

Highly commended in the 2012 Mirehouse & Words by the Water Poetry Competition with the poem 'Two Minutes Silence'.

Have a poem included in A COMPLICATED WAY OF BEING IGNORED, the Grist Anthology of the best poetry of 2012, edited by Michael Stewart.

The pamphlet 'Night Walk' is one of fifteen long-listed for the Venture Award.

The latest collection, 'The Chongololo Club' is published by Pindrop Press in July 2012. See the page on the Pindrop Press Website: Click here.

Read at Porlock Poetry Picnic on September 10th, Exeter Poetry Festival with the Moor Poets in October, read solo at the Torbay Poetry Festival on October 24th and at the Sentinel Poetry Festival in London on October 30th.

Runner up - in the 2011 Lorca in England International Poetry Translation Competition with his translation from Galician into English of 'Madrigal â Cibdá de Santiago'.

Shortlisted for the Bradford-On-Avon Fringe Festival Poetry Competition. Will read at the festival and learn the outcome on September 12th.

Shortlisted for the OFF THE STANZA Poetry Competition in Stirling, Scotland. Will learn the final outcome on September 13th.

Shortlisted in the Poems Please competition with 'Holiday in Sidmouth 1957.

Guest Poet for July 2011 at Exeter's Uncut Poets.

Adjudicated at the Salisbury Young People's Festival on Sunday March 6th. See photo.

Shortlisted in the 2010 Plough Prize for the second year running. This year with my very Devon poem 'Looking For Stumpwarts'. See results here.

Collaborative Exhibition with talk/reading and poetry from art workshop in March/April at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey. Details above. There will also be a Moor Poets workshop exploring poetry from art linked to this collaboration. See Moor Poets events.

Graham Burchell MA. Briefly presented on the Bath Spa University promotional video. See the short version here.

Added to Famous Poets and Poems--I find that I have now been added to the 'Famous Poets and Poems' website. See this addition at http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com.

2nd in the Poetry on the Lake Competition. 'A Zoo in Tunisia' wins 2nd place in the'Short Poem' section of this competition. It was Longlisted in Torbay, shortlisted for the Plough Prize, and then in the final ten of the Huddersfield Literary Festival Competition. Now, I am pleased to say it has achieved a winning place. Details.

Shortlisted for the 2010 Templar Poetry Prize and two poems from my in progress collection 'Chongololo Club' have been selected for this year's anthology entitled 'Snap'. The selected poems are 'Fishing the Wild West' and 'Search Party'.

Latest: Stanza competition winning poem selected as Poetry Society featured poem.

Poem 'a Closeness' and latest book, 'Cottage Pi' entered for the Forward Prize.

Announced on National Poetry Day

Graham Burchell wins the 2015 Stanza Poetry Competition Click Here to see Judge, Jo Bell's Report and read the poem.

Also announced on National Poetry Day: Oram, Zammit and Burchell win SPM Publications Poetry Book Competion. Click here to read more.

Earlier in the summer: From Sentinel Poetry Movement--We are pleased to inform you that 'Cottage Pi' has been shortlisted in the last 6, for the SPM Publications Poetry Book Competition 2014/15, and would like you to submit the full collection no later than midnight on the 25th of August. The 3 top winners will be announced on the 30th of September, 2015.

March 7th Commended in the Bath Poetry Café Short Poem Competition

March 4th Shortlisted in the Chagword Poetry competition 2015

Jan 2015 Elected chairman of the Moor Poets for the third year running.

January 1st Shortlisted in the Magic Oxygen Poetry Competition 2015 (What a start to 2015. First email of the year: