The Impress Prize is open to fiction and nonr fiction by anyone aged 18 and over who has NOT published a book-length publication before.
Closing Date: 17 June 2013
Administrative charge: £10.
Details on Impress Prize website.
Don Paterson’s poetry has won awards including the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, and (twice) the TS Eliot Prize. Most recently, Rain won the 2009 Forward prize.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the English Association< Don Paterson was awarded the OBE in 2008 and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010. Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he has been Poetry Editor at Picador since 1996.
Tickets £5; free to students: limited spaces, please book in advance. Ring or email The Woodstock Bookshop for information.
The competition invites “imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of the two categories for entry: Poetry and Fiction”.
More information at www.aestheticamagazine.com/creativewriting
Notting Hill Editions has launched an annual literary prize for the best essay in the English language, of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, published or unpublished, on any subject.
MSt tutor Nikita Lalwani’s book The Village is now available in paperback.
For short collections of 20-24 pages of 18-20 pems by women poets who have not previously had a full-length collection published.
1st prize: Publication by Seren Books, plus £250, 25 complimentary copies of the pamphlet and a 10 per cent royalty on sales.
One or more poems from the pamphlet will be published in _Mslexia_ magazine.
Judge: Amy Wack, poetry editor at Seren Books
Closing date: 17 June 2013
Entry fee: £20 per collection
See http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pamcomp_active.php for more information.
MSt graduates Paul Sweeten and Luke Smith have launched The Harlequin, a new quarterly literary journal featuring poetry, fiction, interviews and personal essays. The first issue features poetry from MSt tutors Jane Draycott and Geore Szirtes, and also work from Lydia Davis, Jim Shepard, William Kittredge, Sara Miller and more.
Enjoy and subscribe to it:
For unpublished poems of any length and in any style by women poets.
1st Prize: £2,000
Judge: Kathleen Jamie
Closing date: 17 June 2013
Entry fee: £7 for up to three poems.
See http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_active.php for more information and competition rules.
MSt tutor Abi Docherty’s play Edward Edward will be broadcast on Radio 4 on May 20th at 2.15 pm.
The Radcliffe Science Library, in association with the Museum for the History of Science.
Theme: Science and Medicine as its theme
Open to all members of Oxford University – students, staff and alumni.
Closing date 13th September 2013. Further details on the Library’s website: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science.
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