Well, it seems I’m having a bit of a run of positive poetry news at the moment. My poem ‘Iceland’ was commended in the Forest Poets annual poetry competition by the amazing, Forward-shortlisted Joelle Taylor.
My pamphlet with Dancing Girl Press, the rafters were still burning, is now available to purchase via their website.
Kristy from DGP has done such an amazing job with this little publication and I’m really proud of the poems I wrote for the collection.
Lush to have been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award this year. My poem ‘The Tuna Auction’ was originally published in Anthropocene magazine earlier this month. Fingers crossed for all the shortlistees!
Chuffed to have come 4th in the Streetcake Prize for Experimental Writing. I felt a bit of an interloper at the prize-giving. I’m not sure my poem really is that experimental compared to all the wonderfully inventive pieces by other poets and prose-writers. Nonetheless it was lovely to be selected as a runner-up and huge shout out to Trinni and Nikki who run the prize! What a brilliant thing they’re doing 🙂
You can buy your copy of the anthology here.
On Monday 8th November, 7.30pm via Zoom, Homerton will be hosting Seán Hewitt for a poetry reading and Q&A. The event is open to all, email me via the address on the poster to join.
Over the moon to have been shortlisted for The Streetcake Prize for Experimental Writing. I love what I write. I love using poetry as a tool of inquiry: testing the limits of form, experience and knowledge. But there aren’t many places that can give it a home.
Streecake Magazine is one such place. And it’s wonderful to have a poem be shortlisted for the top prize. Good luck to all the shortlisted authors.
After multiple budgets, draft upon draft of copy and battling with Grantium, we were pumped to get that news that bath magg has been awarded funding by Arts Council England.
Funding means we can pay contributors, run workshops, put on launches and even pay ourselves a bit of money for all we do running the magazine.
We won’t be millionaires by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s amazing to see this labour of love get national recognition for all that we’ve achieved!
This autumn I’ll be teaching a number of classes in and around the UK. In September I’m going to be teaching workshops for The Bill Gates Foundation, Cambridge and Homerton College, Cambridge. Those classes are closed to external participants but you can join me for the following online sessions:
Or if you want to book some private teaching, just get in touch via hello [at] mariahwhelan [dot] com
Brilliant news that Out of Time has been selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Autumn 2021. A huge congratulations to Valley Press and the brilliant editor Kate Simpson.
You can pre-order Out of Time here: https://www.valleypressuk.com/book/162/out_of_time__poetry_from_the_climate_emergency
On August 5/6th, I’ll be running a 2-day symposium with my colleagues Dr Katherine Collins (Oxford) and Dr Helen Mort (MMU). This two-day symposium seeks to bring together poets, researchers, researcher-poets and poet-researchers interested in exploring the intersections of poetry and research and to explore the questions we, as members of this growing field of inquiry, should be asking of our practices, our ethics, our outputs, and ourselves.Â
Our questions include:
To send in a paper head here: https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/article/it-shame-or-it-water-poetry-and-research-conversation
To register as an attendee head here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-it-shame-or-is-it-water-poetry-and-research-in-conversation-tickets-157261524453
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