Withdrawal from Twitter/X

The Rialto as an organisation has always reviewed its use of social media over our time on all the platforms we inhabit. Over the last two years the advisory board have become increasingly uncomfortable using Twitter/X. We have already pulled back from anything much...
Nature and Place 2024 winners announced

Nature and Place 2024 winners announced

We have now received the results of the 2024 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Zaffar Kunial and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Fox’ – Marianne MacRae2nd Prize of £500 – ‘Extinction Submission’ – AV...
Nature and Place 2023 winners announced

Nature and Place 2023 winners announced

We have now received the results of the 2023 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Ian McMillan and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Kharkiv Zoo’ – Anastasia Taylor-Lind2nd Prize of £500 – ‘Spoons’ – Jo Bratten3rd...
The Rialto issue 96, It’s not a war, it’s poetry

The Rialto issue 96, It’s not a war, it’s poetry

The Rialto’s successful Editor Development Programme brought several new editors into the fold under the tutelage of long standing Editor Michael Mackmin, and now three of them are to have free rein over their own issues thanks to further ACE funding. First up, is...
Rialto Newsletter February 2021

Rialto Newsletter February 2021

THE RIALTO FEBRUARY NEWS ‘I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausages and haddock by writing them down.’ Virginia Woolf HEADLINES THE RIALTO NATURE AND PLACE COMPETITION The closing date for the competition is rushing towards us. Please let us have...
Nature and Place 2021 winners announced

Nature and Place 2021 winners announced

We have now received the results of the 2021 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Daljit Nagra and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘They say you sleep 1/3 of your life in the dark with animals’ by Simon Costello2nd...
Rialto 96 – Degna Stone

Rialto 96 – Degna Stone

Hello poetry people! 2020 has been something, hasn’t it? But in amongst all the trauma and the horror, the world has just kept on turning regardless and here I am, putting out a call for your best poems for the spring edition of The Rialto. There has been a hell of a...
Nature and Place 2020 winners announced

Nature and Place 2020 winners announced

We have now received the results of the Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Pascale Petit and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Hermit Crab in a Doll’s Head’ by Cindy Botha 2nd Prize of £500 – ‘Insects’ by P Q R Anderson...
The Rialto Newsletter, February 2020

The Rialto Newsletter, February 2020

93 The Rialto No.93 is out in the world. Storm Ciara is bustling about making working in the garden unattractive, so here I am sat down to celebrate the new issue. It is actually just a rather wet and windy day here but the weather forecasters seem to have been...
Rialto news – November/December 2019

Rialto news – November/December 2019

Dodo Provocateur Anita Pati’s prize winner pamphlet, which we published in the first week in September, had it’s London launch on September 24th at The Poet an aptly chosen pub in Baring Street (N1 3DS). I put the post code in because I must have been one of the last...