by Kate Birch | Oct 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Women of grit, determination and strength – true Queens – feature in several of the works on our shortlist for September. And then there’s the worker ants and Trotsky at a birthday party. Intrigued? You can find our shortlisted writers below (or see...
by Kate Birch | Sep 16, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, prizes and awards
August’s Pick of the Month comes with the wonderfully quirky title ‘My Mother Visits the Dissection Room’ which in itself demands that you read it. And it is clear from our voters’ response to it that the poem does not disappoint! ‘My...
by Kate Birch | Sep 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
You may have thought that we were neglecting August but late is almost always better than never so it is time once more to vote for your Pick of the Month. Our shortlist of six can be found below (or see the ‘Vote for your August 2016 Pick of the Month’ in the...
by Kate Birch | Aug 10, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
It was a particularly powerful and emotional shortlist this month out of which Theophilus Kwek’s transcendent ‘Psalm 19′ emerged as the overall winner. Theo is the author of three collections, They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue (2011), Circle Line...
by Kate Birch | Aug 10, 2016 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
#TheWritingLife is a hash tag sometimes used by writers on social media to vent their frustrations with lines of poetry, chapter openings and recalcitrant characters that refuse to fit in. But what about when that writing life means each and every line you compose...
