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Cup winners 2020 : Sea of Storms - Cornwall: Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Centure - The Mermaid's Christmas Adventure - Virgil's Fountain

Keslowena - congratulations - to class and cup winners in 2020. You'll find details here and a press release here.

You'll find the list of nominated publications here and in this press release.

All entries are listed here..

Sincere apologies to Awen Productions, Barbara Santi and all the contrinbutors for our omission from the list of nominated publications in 2020 of Home of Springs: Trengwainton.

The annual Gorsedh Kernow Holyer an Gof Awards were instigated in 1996 for books published in 1995 and are so named in memory of Redruth publisher and Cornish Bard Leonard Truran, whose Bardic name was Holyer an Gof - Follower of The Smith.   The scheme was established and is organised by Bards of Gorsedh Kernow to promote books about Cornwall, set in Cornwall or in Cornish (Kernewek).  

Each year about 60 - 80 books are submitted by publishers from Cornwall and beyond and these are read and evaluated by members of a panel of Readers. The winning entries are announced at a presentation evening to be held this year on July 8th. at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.

There are 12 categories, each nominated book receiving a Gorsedh Kernow Certificate. There is a winning book in each class/sub-class, which receives a Gorsedh Kernow Winner's Certificate.

In addition the following awards are made at the presentation evening.

  1. The Holyer an Gof Cup, gifted by the late Joan Truran, in memory of her husband, is perpetual and awarded for the most outstanding entry in Classes 1 - 4.

  2. The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies Holyer an Gof Cup which is awarded for the most outstanding entry in classes 5 & 6.

  3. The Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek Cup which is awarded for the best original fiction work or translation into Cornish (Kernewek).

  4. The Gorsedh Kernow Ann Trevenen Jenkin Cup which is awarded for authorship in the class for children and young adults.

2020-21 - for books published in 2020

Guidelines for entry 2020-21

The Holyer Year

Submission form

Advice for Readers

Readers' Review form

List of Readers

Contact us

 

Holyer an Gof in previous years

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