First Prize : 10,000 Pounds
Deadline for entries : 6th August 2010
The prize is open internationally and will award 10,000 pounds to the writer of the best portfolio of poetry submitted. The competition is open to writers aged 16 or over, there is no upper age limit. Entry fee is 15 pounds.
Manchester Writing Competition website :
[Jane Gleeson-White, on the 'overland' blog, July 15th 2010]:
I can’t let the death last week of Australian writer Jessica Anderson go unremarked. Why? Because although she twice won the Miles Franklin Award (1978 and 1980) and her novel Tirra Lirra by the River has been on high school reading lists, Anderson was for most of her long life marginalised, a misfit, a sensitive and creative woman in 20th century Australia. And she writes about similarly marginalised people. She said: ‘I was very much, and always have been, preoccupied with people who are strangers in their society.’
Fullers Hobart have begun a new series of events featuring the best poets they can get their hands on, from Tasmania and beyond. And who better to kick things off than Tasmania’s most highly regarded poet, Sarah Day?
Join Sarah in conversation with radio personality Paige Turner, followed by readings from her recent collection, Grass Notes.
Monday 19th July, 6pm.
RSVP to rsvp at fullersbookshop.com.au
[from 'Adam Hooper (the blog)', July 17th 2010]:
I’m (occasionally) helping a Tanzanian organization called Femina. Femina creates and distributes magazines about gender, sexuality and HIV.