Thursday, February 17, 2011

Long Listed

I've cut down on poetry competition entries this year but here's a bit of good(ish) news from one I entered earlier. This is the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award. The money prize is small but the winner does get a volume of poetry published. Not me, but I did get on the long list. I see Kate Dempsey's name there also - well done!

I had to check my competitions spreadsheet to see what I had entered - ten random poems I thought might impress, not any kind of sequence. The results and lists are not on the website yet as far as I can see.

We are finally delighted to announce that the winner of the £100 prize and contract for the publication of her first collection is Louise Warren, whose collection, A Child’s Last Picture Book of the Zoo, will be published in July 2012. All short-listed poets together with those in the narrowed down long-list will have work in the winners’ anthology. This will be a combined anthology also featuring the winners of the short story competition: A Roof of Red Tiles & other stories & poems will be published in April 2011 and all entrants will receive a copy.

10 comments:

AquaMarina said...

congratulations Michael - to make it to the long list is quite an achievement - well done!

Unknown said...

Congrats - it's always nice to get on the longlists, it means you were in the right ballpark!

Mari G said...

Well done, Michael. Good to see the historical work is not thwarting the poetry output!

Mari

Connie Roberts said...

Congratulations, Michael! Kate, too!

JW_Firth said...

Well done on being long listed, and thanks for the reminder about Cinnamon Press :)

Peter Goulding said...

Ah well done, Michael, and Kate too. Fingers crossed.

Michael Farry said...

Thanks everyone, yes it's a boost to get on the long list, short list and winner announced Peter so uncross fingers!!

Emerging Writer said...

Congratulations Michael. Great company! Onwards and upwards

Niamh said...

Congrstulations on that longlisting, thats a great one, well done!

Brigid O'Connor said...

Congrats Michael (and Kate) it's always a delight to end up on a list,