February 2
LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE FICTION PRIZE
UK based women over 21
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January 31
Red Squirrel Press Annual James Kirkup Memorial Poetry Competition
& Annual Sara Park Memorial Short Story Competition
www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?rules
February 20
Fire River Poets Open Poetry Competition 2014/15
Orbis 168 Summer 2014
£5 (Overseas: £9/€12/$15)
Subs: £17/4 pa (Overseas: £35/€42/$58)
Front cover artwork: ‘Tickled Pink’ by Lance Headlee;
back cover, detail from image: www.lanceheadlee.com
Featured Poet, Lance Nizami: Americana; Healing; Zen
Poems from: John Temple Finnigan: ….take these broken wings and learn….;
Mandy Haggith: Sunderbans; Niels Hav: With Charlie Chaplin in Yulin;
Anzhelina Polonskaya: The Berkut of Mezhigorie (trans. Andrew Wachtel);
Noel Williams: Night-scented stock
Prose from: Caroline Carver: the search; Michael Casey: Letter to Meryl;
Rachael Hegarty: The Cleaning Lady
Translation: Terese Coe, Rainer Maria Rilke’s Fallende Sterne
Past Master: Ian Colville on Robert Herrick
Angelina Ayers, Maria Isakova Bennett, Suzannah Evans,
David Harmer, Afric McGlinchey, Jennifer McGowan,
Clairr O’Connor, D. A. Prince, Lynne Taylor
Orbis 168 contributors also include:
Christopher Allen; Maria Bennett; Robert James Berry; Adrian Buckner;
Lucinda Carey; Ian Clarke; Nick Conrad; Jim Conwell; Anna Dwyer;
Anne Hay; Anne Humphreys; Ashleigh John; Terence John;
Shirley Jones; Gill Learner; Michael Mc Carthy; John Michael Mouskos;
Dr D. Parrott; Marcus Smith; Dolores Stewart; Lynne Taylor;
Jonathan Totman; Helen Whitten; Anna Wigley; Sarah Williams
January 24
University of Oxford Continuing Education MSt in Creative Writing
mstcreativewriting@conted.ox.ac.uk
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/mstcw
May 31
DAVID BURLAND POETRY PRIZE 2015
www.davidburlandliteraryservices.com
Kudos 102
WINTER 2014
Runs all the way up to Summer, 2015
£5 (Subs: £18/4 pa)
Goodbye to all that…
and hello to a new incarnation
Twinkling away again with WriteStar, as well as Cinnamon, John Dryden,
Fish Publishing, Henshaw, Keats and Shelley, Kent & Sussex, Magma, Mslexia, Poetry Space and Torriano
And we have Something Old:
Manchester, Oxford, Bridport, Ware, Bristol, Ver, Grey Hen, Frogmore, FWS and David Burland
And Something New: Neil Gunn, Fire Poets, Four Counties, Lucy Cavendish College, and The Overton Prize
And Something Blue as we sign off with the final issue of the magazine…
So Borrow, or better still, Buy, Orbis 171, where Kudos will replace the Poetry Index Section,
with all kinds of interesting discoveries:
Doolin, FlashBang, Mogford, Mother’s Milk, Nivalis, Papatango, PWG,
WithWords…
March 31st
15TH INTERNATIONAL POETRY ON THE LAKE POETRY COMPETITION
Prizes: Silver Wyvern + €400; €200 x 2; €100 x 3. Other prizes.
Theme: ‘Food & drink – or lack of it’.
Judges: Kenneth Steven & other TBA.
3 categories: open, 50 lines (maimum); Formal, 40; Short, 10
FEES: Postal entries (2 copies each poem): £7 per poem
(4 x £25, then £ 6) or €20 ($25) x 2 poems
Email entries: €12 per poem (3 poems x €30) pay Paypal
Poetry on the Lake, Isola San Giulio , 28016 Orta NO, Italy
poetryonthelake@yahoo.co.uk