The Mslexia competition has been judged by Imtiaz Dharker for the first four years of its partnership with Bloodaxe. Courtney Conrad’s I Am Evidence (2023) won the 2022 competition plus the Michael Marks Poetry Award. Nia Broomhall’s debut pamphlet Backalong (2024) was the 2023 winner, while Emilie Jelinek’s second pamphlet The Sky Around My Father (2025) won the 2024 competition. The 2025 winner will be announced in the June 2026 issue of Mslexia and on the Bloodaxe website ahead of its publication by Bloodaxe in September 2026.