competitions
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Just a really quick update on the Marcella Althaus-Reid Spoken Word Theology Competition to say that I came second! The judges — playwright Jo Clifford, musician, theologian and URC minister Alex Clare-Young and poet Jay Hulme — chose Naomi Orrell’s “Antiphon for the Trans Body” as the winner and I have to say it was
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What’s this? Two posts in two days?! You might be forgiven for wondering whether there is good reason for this lack of parsimony, dear readers. And there is. For I was informed on Monday evening that my work has been shortlisted for the inaugural Marcella Althaus-Reid Spoken Word Theology Competition. The competition, an element of
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The Herald‘s annual Scots language poetry competition, the McCash, was launched last week. The full article about this year’s competition, including winning poems from previous years, is here. However, you need to have an account at the paper — which is free — if you want to read the whole article, so here are the
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Thought I’d draw a couple of competitions to your attention. First, on these shores, the National Poetry Competition is open for entries (actually, it has been since last month; I’ve been slow off the mark on this one). Now in its 34th year, the competition is one of the world’s biggest. This year’s judges are
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Stephen Welsh has posted the newspaper poem he read in the final round of the Friendly Slam last week. Very good to be able to read it. I recommend you take a look, because it was definitely one of the stand-out poems of the evening, however modest Mr Welsh is about it. The poem itself
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A big thank you to Claire Askew for organising Wednesday night’s this collection friendly slam and running it so smoothly. I had a really good evening, even though I was knocked out in the first round. Yes, I was a bit disappointed to fall at the first hurdle — especially because I felt I read
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Just a quick post to remind anyone in and around Edinburgh that I’ll be reading at the thiscollection friendly slam tomorrow night. At least, I’ll definitely be in the first round! I certainly hope to make it all the way to the end but, in a scoring innovation dreamt up by Claire Askew, that’s for
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This year’s Edwin Morgan poetry competition was launched last week. With a first prize of £5,000 and others of £1,000, £500 and £50 (x 2), it’s one of the richest poetry prizes in Britain, but the kudos of being thus associated with Morgan’s name would itself be a high reward in my book. And, of
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Here’s some competition news, by way of public service blog announcement. This year’s National Poetry Competition is already open for entries. The judges this year are the estimable George Szirtes, Deryn Rees-Jones and Sinéad Morrissey. The prizes are: £5,000 for the overall winner, £2,000 for the second, £1,000 for the third and seven commendations of
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I’ve only ever got hooked on two–ahem–reality TV shows: Musicality and Masterchef. Both, of course, are basically talent shows with a reality TV element injected into them. (Perhaps we could call them soft reality TV rather than the hard reality [sic] TV of, say, Big Brother. Who I’m not watching. Ever. Sorry.) Both also lack
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It’s worth taking 10 minutes to listen to the interview with Fiona Sampson from Woman’s Hour last week, helpfully drawn to my attention by my wife. She has quite a few interesting nuggets to share about poetry and editing Poetry Review. It’s encouraging to hear that she reads all the roughly 60,000 unsolicited submissions that
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