Competitions closing soon

Writer’s and Artists Yearbook

Short Story Competition

Theme: Compulsion

Closes: 14th of February

Prize: £500, Arvon Residential Writing Course, and Publication

email: competition@acblack.com with ‘WAYB11 competition’ in subject line

Please see http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/short-story-competition-2011/ for further details

Norwich Writers Circle Poetry Competition

Closes: 15th of February

Prize: £300, £200, £100

email: nwcopc.maureen@yahoo.co.uk

Please see /www.norwichwriters.org.uk/ for further details

Park Publications

Open Poetry and Article Competitions

Theme: The countryside in Spring

Closes: 15th of February

Prizes: £50, £25, £15

Please see http://www.parkpublications.co.uk/writingcompetion.htm for further details

The CWA Debut Dagger Competition

Closing Date: 5th February, 2011
Details: Entrants are required to submit the first 3000 words of their crime-themed novel plus a 500/1000 synopsis
Fee: £25
Prize: First prize is £700. All shortlisted entries receive a selection of crime books. Entrance is open to anyone who has not had a novel published commercially. Please see http:thecwa.co.uk for more details.

Ward Wood Publishing

Lumen/ Camden Poetry Competition

Judged by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy

All proceeds to the London Homeless Cold Weather Shelters

Closes: 14th February

Please see http://www.wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/competitions.htm for further details.

Wenlock Festival

Open Poetry Competition

Closes: 21st of February

Prizes: £500, £200, £100

Please see http://www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org/pdf/poetry-competition-final-2011.pdf for more details.

Worcestershire Literary festival

Just in case someone has not yet heard the exciting news that the first Worcestershire Literary Festival will be held the 17th - 27th of June 2011.

Important dates to be aware of are:

Thursday 3rd of February - Parole Parlate hosted at Little Venice (St. Nicholas st) at 7:30pm. This open mic session will be featuring readings by our own Sylvia Herburt and Tony Judge.

Wednesday 16th of February - There is a volunteer meeting held in the upstairs of Little Venice at 7pm. So come get involved, and excited, and meet the wonderful people who are helping make this festival happen.

For more information please check out the official web page

http://www.worcslitfest.com/

Bring New Work And Win A Prize

The theme for the meeting on Tuesday 7th April is:

Bring New Work And Win A Prize

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)

Two poems by Angela Lanyon

FITNESS TRAINING

The noise was appalling, The dim was obscene,
I doubt if you’d hear an elephant scream,
They were jumping around in sweat shirts and shirts
While the person in charge besides them, exhorts –
`Go faster – push harder, you’ll never lose weight
If you lean on that bar like a cow on a gate.’
The music gets louder, the faces grow grim,
Is it worth all this effort just to get slim?
With dumb bells and treadmills the dumb-belles proceed
To rub off those inches that accrue from their greed.
A clinic for fitness? Or fetish for pain?
What urge keeps them trying to lose what they gain?
Keep going, don’t slacken, their bodies drip sweat
If they keep to the programme there’s hope for them yet.

Angela Lanyon

THE TERRIBLE TALE OF LISA WHOSE SUCCESSFUL WORK ETHIC LED TO HER REDUNDANCY!

Lisa excelled man made machines
As tester out of trampolines,

She craved for food, out grew her home,
Then rivalled the Millennium Dome.

But unrestricted exercise
Rapidly reduced her size.

Disaster struck! Calamity!
She lost her job. Redundancy!

Poor girl, she's now compelled to sit
At home - alone - on benefit.

Angela Lanyon

An Irish Theme Story

The theme for the meeting on Tues 17th March, 2009 is:

An Irish Theme Story

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
W. B. Yeats

A Journey To Remember

The theme for the meeting on 3rd March, 2009 is:

A Journey To Remember

Quotation:
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)

Worcester Writers' Circle theme for 17th Feb 2009

The theme for this meeting is:

I Can’t Live Without