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Artwork by Whooli Chen L to r: National Poetry Competition judges Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long (photo: Amaal Said) Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long are the judges of the National Poetry Competition 2021, which is now open for entries The National Poetry Competition, run by The Poetry Society, is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single unpublished poem. The three judges this year are outstanding and award-winning writers. Fiona Benson has won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for a First Full Collection, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection. David Constantine, who was an editor of Modern Poetry in Translation for ten years, has published over a dozen volumes of poetry, and is a recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Rachel Long, founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective for Women of Colour, has been recognised by the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and the ....
Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 13.31 EDT This yearâs shortlist for the Womenâs prize for fiction is made up of authors who have never been nominated for the award before, with Yaa Gyasi, Susanna Clarke and Patricia Lockwood among those competing for £30,000. The annual award for an âoutstanding, ambitious, originalâ novel by a woman features several stories about âlives you havenât read about beforeâ, said chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo, the Booker prize-winning novelist. These include Claire Fullerâs fourth novel Unsettled Ground, about middle-aged twins who have grown up in isolation in rural Wiltshire, and Cherie Jonesâ debut How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, a story of murder, abuse and violence that takes place in a community on Barbados. These sit beside Gyasiâs second novel Transcendent Kingdom, following a family of Ghanaian immigrants living in the American south. ....
Aura Libraries Flintshire: Countdown to the Womenâs Prize for Fiction 2021 Some of the authors and titles hoping for Women’s Prize for the Fiction 2021 title. Women s Prize for Fiction long-list The countdown to the Women s Prize for Fiction 2021 is underway. The longlist will be announced on March 10, and we are so excited to see which books have been chosen. We would love to hear your predictions for this year s longlist. Send us a message on social media - find us on Facebook (@LlyfrgelloeddAuraLibraries) Instagram (@llyfrgelloeddauralibraries) or Twitter (@LibFlintshire). Here are some of our favourite past winners: • We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2005) ....
The important Bristolians who have just been added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Eight notable people from Bristol have been added to the illustrious list Updated Bristol has long been punching above its weight when it comes to producing people who go on to be world famous - whether it s Hollywood legends like Cary Grant and Bob Hope, scientists like Bernard Lovell or Colin Pillinger, or sports stars like WG Grace or Eddie Hapgood. But there are some notable Bristolians who, in their field, are so well-known and respected that they ve just been named in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. ....
Things are stacked against women’s writing. Can a new prize for women writers really change things? Novelist Shashi Deshpande fears the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will not add dignity and prestige to women’s writing overnight. Feb 21, 2021 · 08:30 am Eimear McBride, winner of the 2014 Bailey s Women s Prize for Fiction, for A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing . | Neil Hall / Reuters The announcement of a prize for women writers in the USA and Canada, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, has attracted much attention for two reasons. One, the prize money is very large (150,000 Canadian dollars for the winner alone), next only to the Nobel Prize. And two, the prize is exclusively for women writers. ....