January 2015

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February 2

LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE FICTION PRIZE

UK based women over 21

www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize

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Red Squirrel Press

January 31
Red Squirrel Press Annual James Kirkup Memorial Poetry Competition
& Annual Sara Park Memorial Short Story Competition
www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?rules

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Fire River Poets

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February 20
Fire River Poets Open Poetry Competition 2014/15

www.fireriverpoets.org.uk

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Orbis 168

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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: AmericanaHealing; Zen

Poems from: John Temple Finnigan: ….take these broken wings and learn….;
Mandy HaggithSunderbansNiels HavWith Charlie Chaplin in Yulin;
Anzhelina PolonskayaThe Berkut of Mezhigorie (trans. Andrew Wachtel);
Noel WilliamsNight-scented stock

Prose from: Caroline Carverthe search; Michael CaseyLetter to Meryl;
Rachael HegartyThe 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

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David Burland

May 31
DAVID BURLAND POETRY PRIZE 2015
www.davidburlandliteraryservices.com

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Kudos 102

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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, MagmaMslexia, 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

www.poetryonthelake.org