The Mslexia competition is being judged for the first time in 2026 by Maura Dooley, following the first four years of Mslexia's partnership with Bloodaxe with Imtiaz Dharker as judge. 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 her pamphlet's publication by Bloodaxe in September 2026, while the 2026 winner will be announced in the June 2027 issue of Mslexia