Well, I haven’t been posting much
poetry lately, but I have been busily employed in the world of literature, and
poetry in particular.
Having completed April in a heap
after writing a poem a day throughout the month, here I am at the end of
another month. And I have completed just one poem in the last 31 days!
However, I have been busy editing
and collating all the work I did through April, together with other material
already completed over the last 11 months. Submissions of single poems, small
selections and even a mini-collection have been sent off far and wide; and
there are more yet to send.
I have been spurred on to press
that ‘send’ button as much as possible because of one or two acceptances that
have come through. There will be more news on those as they are published, but
for now I am pleased to say that the number of acceptances are exceeding the
number of rejections – so far! It’s a small start towards wider publication,
but a definite start, and a very encouraging one.
I am involved in organising a
couple of local projects that are taking up a lot of my free time right now.
One is working on the committee of the PENfro Book Festival, which I joined
earlier in the year.
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| Beautiful Rhosygilwen Mansion |
This is held in mid-September in
the fabulous location of Rhosygilwen in Pembrokeshire (links below) We have an
evening of the spoken word -- poetry and prose -- with the Cellar Bards and
Friends, a day of workshops for writers (I’ll be doing one on freelance
journalism and ‘Selling Your Story’); a book fair and talks and meetings with
writers in all kinds of genres. And there are some very special guests
headlining on the Saturday night – I am currently working on the press release
to make that big announcement.
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| The popular Book Fair, in the Oak Hall at Rhosygilwen |
There is also an Open Poetry Competition
– for anyone aged 16 or over, which is being judged by award winning poet
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch. Her wonderful collection ‘Banjo’ is shortlisted for
Wales Book of the Year. I am running the admin for that competition, so I hope
to be very busy around the closing date of July 19. It’s the first time PENfro
has run a poetry competition. If it goes well we will do more in future years, so
do enter – and please get your entries in soon!!!
There is also a short story
writing competition for children, which closes on June 14. Link is below.
Oh, and I am one of the PENfro
Poets – the workshop group based at Rhosygilwen that grew out of last year’s
PENfro Festival. We will publish a small collection of our work later this
summer. And, of course, some of us will be reading our poetry at the Cellar
Bards and Friends evening at PENfro 2013.
So, busy times – and much more info to
post up later.
More info/links:
Entry forms and info on the PENfro Open Poetry Competition, to
download from the website: http://penfrobookfestival.info/?p=493
Children’s Short Story Competition:
PENfro page on Facebook:
The Cellar Bards Facebook group:
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