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Below are some of my literary achievements since becoming a fulltime writer.
To the right are some photos from places visited around the world.
£1000 as winner of the 2005 Chapter One Promotions annual poetry competition and £500 as runner up in the 2009 competition.
$500 Winner of the 2006 Lucie Wood Poetry Contest.
Winner of the Birkbeck Arts Week Pantoum Competition 2010
Winner of the Didsbury Arts Festival Poetry Competition 2010
Runner up in the 2005 Into Africa Poetry Competition.
2nd Place in the 2010 Educating Kenyan Orphans Poetry Competition.
3rd Place in the Torriano Poetry Competition 2009.
Highly Commended in the 2005 Momaya Press Short Story Competition.
highly Commended in the 2006 Ware Open Poetry Competition.
Specially Commended in the 2008 and 2009 Welsh Poetry Competition.
Specially Commended in the Autumn 2009 Sentinel Literary Quarterly Competition.
Shortlisted for the 2010 Plough Prize.
Shortlisted for the 2010 Huddersfield Literary Festival Poetry Competition
Long-listed for the 2008 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year
Longlisted for the 2009 Torquay Poetry Festival Competition
Nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize
Twice judged the El Paso Writers Poetry Competition
Started the online quarterly poetry journal Words Myth
Been accepted into the Poets & Writers Directory of American Poets and Writers.
Had poems or short stories accepted in the following anthologies:-
101 Poets For a Cornish Assembly - Edited by Les Merton
(Boho Press)
Just Bite Me
Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair--Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar
People of a Few Words
Became a member of the Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Society of Texas, Poets Northwest (a Houston chapter), The Poetry Society and is currently a committee member of The Moor Poets based on Dartmoor, Devon.
Been featured in the May 2008 issue of Devon Today magazine.
Pages and poems on the Poetry PF site.
Audio Poetry on PoetCasting
M.A. in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University
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