RWS Members' News (1): Competitions and Published Work

Summer 2009

Competitions

• Sue Williams: First Prize in the Woman Alive/ACW Article Competition.
• Caroline Gill: Third Prize in the Haddon Library (Cambridge University 800) Poetry Competition

Published Work

• Caroline Gill: Caroline's poem, 'Stranger' has been published in Shoes for the Hungry (Popcorn Press 2009). The anthology has been edited by Patrick T. Randolph, who teaches Academic and Creative Writing at Wisconsin-La Crosse. Stranger is based upon observations made some years ago when Caroline lived in Rome. The anthology comprises 158 poems on the theme of hunger and homelessness by 80 poets, including many who have direct experience of homelessness in one capacity or another. All profits from the sale of this book will be allocated to projects concerned with helping those who are hungry or in need of shelter. Shoes for the Hungry can be bought from Amazon and Popcorn Press.

• David Gill: David's work and photography feature in the new 2009 edition of The Lion Handbook to the Bible.

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David Gill (1): Gloucestershire in the Negev

Please click on this link to David's YouTube recording of his desert poem, a parody of 'Adlestrop' by Edward Thomas. David's poem was first published in The Seventh Quarry ed. Peter Thabit Jones.

• Continuing the desert theme, you might also like to look at Caroline's posting on the ancient city of Palmyra for the current Carnival of the Arid over on the Coyote Crossing blog.

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