by Kate Birch | Aug 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
There’s an energy and a restlessness that pervades the poems in our shortlist for the IS&T Pick of the Month for July! In fact, in Maxine Rose Munro’s ‘He grows’, the narrator gives birth to a ‘Restless’ that cannot be held...
by Kate Birch | Jul 19, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
It was the superb imagery, the hypnotic rhythm, the sense of mystery and the way Tom Bennett painted ‘an incredible picture of an ordinary scene’ that caught the imaginations of voters and saw ‘Travelling Light’ as the IS&T Pick of the...
by Kate Birch | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
This month our shortlist embraces everything from Death to DIY. Melanie Branton exposes the underbelly in ‘Cemetery’ while the Hell that is flat pack furniture has made its way into Helen Rye’s excellent and beautifully constructed (!) short story...
by Kate Birch | Jun 27, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
When sifting through all the comments on our shortlist for May’s Pick of the Month, in amongst the ‘beautifuls’, ‘powerfuls’, ‘movings’ and ‘evocatives’, one comment in particular stood out. In response to...
by Kate Birch | Jun 27, 2019 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
The 15-18 yr old group winner for the 2019 writing competition at UEA’s Festival Of Literature for Young People (FLY) is Maud Webster from City of Norwich School. The theme for this year’s competition was a poem of any length beginning with the word...
