Tales From A Harrogate Arms Publishing Awards
Recognising the best of independent publishing, every month.
At a Glance
- • Focus: The Tales From A Harrogate Caravan publishing awards, recognising outstanding work published here.
- • Includes: Current awards, past winners, and how works are chosen.
- • Who it's for: Readers looking for the best of what has been published, and authors hoping to be recognised.
October 2026
Four works chosen from the platform this month.
Poem of the Month
Do I Miss My Brother?
A.G. Munson
Awarded Poem of the Month for its poignant exploration of loss, absence and the complexities of grief. Through heartfelt language, gentle rhyme and a haunting refrain, A.G. Munson captures the profound emotional weight of mourning a brother never known, creating a deeply moving and thought-provoking reflection on family, memory and the bonds that transcend a lifetime.
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Commentary of the Month
The Philosophical Perambulations of a Superior Mind
Manny Wheelman
Awarded Commentary of the Month for its wonderfully witty, satirical exploration of intellectual vanity and self-importance. Through an entertaining blend of philosophical references, literary allusions and deliciously exaggerated self-regard, Manny Wheelman creates a distinctive comic voice that turns an ordinary walk through Leeds into an amusing exercise in mock intellectual grandeur. A clever and highly entertaining piece of observational humour.
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Essay of the Month
The Watchtower and the Inferno
Glen Bushey
Awarded Essay of the Month for its compelling and scholarly exploration of the fascinating parallels between Dante's Inferno and Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. Glen Bushey brings together literature, music, biblical prophecy and philosophical interpretation with considerable insight, constructing a thoughtful and persuasive argument that reveals unexpected connections between two remarkable works from very different eras.
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Book of the Month
The Iron Wind
Benjamin Jones
Awarded Book of the Month. A fascinating and atmospheric account that brings the history of the Severn Bridge vividly to life. Beautifully written, with evocative descriptions of the river, the engineering and the people behind this remarkable achievement. A compelling blend of history, drama and engineering that makes you appreciate the bridge in an entirely new light. An engaging and memorable read.
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Four works chosen from the platform this month.
Environmental Awareness Book Award
Say No to Fly-Tipping
Harry Georgiou
For a book that takes a subject most people look away from and does not let them. The author writes about fly-tipping the way a good reporter writes about anything: without preaching, without padding, and without ever losing sight of the fact that this is not a story about waste but about the people who have to live beside it.
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Article of the Month
The Ontological Persistence of the Common Idiot
Manny Wheelman
For an essay that walks down Woodhouse Lane and finds Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Chaplin and Benny Hill all in the same stretch of pavement. Philosophy as comedy and comedy as philosophy, and the result is the funniest serious essay on the site.
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The Atlantica Prize for Classical Tragedy
The Duke of Atlantica
Jackie Hilloughby
For a Victorian tragedy that knows exactly what it is doing. The text names the hubris, the peripeteia, the anagnorisis and the catharsis in itself, and then delivers all four. A small book that reads like a much older one, in the best possible way.
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Poetry Award
We Are Eve
Olivera Andonoska
For a poem that walks backwards through seven generations of mothers and arrives at Eve. The title is doing double work, the myth and the mitochondria, and the whole thing lands because it trusts the reader to hold both meanings at once.
Read the PoemHow the Awards Work
Every month, Tales From A Harrogate Caravan recognises one work in each of several categories. The choices are made by our editors and the winners are announced here.
Previous Winners
September 2026 was the first ceremony. Winners will be archived here as the months pass.