UEA FLY Festival 2019 Competition Winner 15-18 yr olds and Norfolk Prize Winner – Maud Webster

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...

UEA FLY Festival 2019 Competition Winner 12-14 yr olds and Overall Winner – Rebekah Bongers

by Kate Birch | Jun 26, 2019 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry

Ink Sweat & Tears is, once again, the proud supporter of today’s Poetry Day at UEA’s Festival Of Literature for Young People (FLY)  and we are also very pleased to be able to bring you the winners of 2019’s writing competition which this year was exclusively...

Poems from Louisa Adjoa Parker, Oz Hardwick and Jessica Mookherjee are the IS&T Entries for the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.

by Kate Birch | Mar 6, 2019 | Blogs & News, prizes and awards

Revisit the poems below or go to https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/archive/?cat=102. Good luck to all!

‘Frequency Violet’ by Kate Edwards is Highly Commended in the 2018 Forward Prizes and appears in the ‘The Forward Book of Poetry 2019’

by Kate Birch | Sep 6, 2018 | Blogs & News, prizes and awards

We are beyond excited to be able to announce that Kate Edwards’ poem ‘Frequency Violet’, which charmed and delighted us and was Pick of the Month for November 2017, has been Highly Commended in the 2018 Forwards Prizes following our submission of it...

UEA FLY Festival 2018 Competition Winners 11-14 yr olds – Amelia Jones and Wilfrid Watson

by Kate Birch | Jul 14, 2018 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry

More superb winning entries from UEA’s Festival of Literature for Young People, this time for the 11-14 year old age group.   Overall Winner 11- 14 and Winner: Prose 11-14   Bluebells Mother says there used to be a type of flower called bluebells; I still...

UEA FLY Festival 2018 Competition Winners 15-18 yr olds – Megan Leung and Lauren Murray

by Kate Birch | Jul 13, 2018 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry

Ink Sweat & Tears once again has been a proud supporter of the Poetry Day at UEA’s Festival Of Literature for Young People (FLY) and we are also very pleased to be able to bring you the winners of 2018’s writing competition (sponsored by Gnaw...