by Helen Ivory | Jan 30, 2018 | News
The Winner We are delighted to announce the Winner of the 2017 Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Liz Berry, is Tammy Armstrong with her poem Road Salt Dome. Road Salt Dome after Paul Farley Off the highway, out of the way like ant hills, or bee...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | recent events
Sean O’Brien’s most recent collection The Beautiful Librarians (Picador 2015), was a PBS Choice, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and joint winner of the Roehampton Prize. In 2016 the first two cantos of Hammersmith were published by Hercules Editions. The...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | recent events
Rebecca Stott writes novelistic history (Darwin and the Barnacle and Darwin’s Ghosts) and historical fiction (Ghostwalk and The Coral Thief) and is a professor of literature and creative writing at UEA. She has just published a family memoir, In the Days...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | recent events
Nathan Go was born and raised in southern Philippines. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. A PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow and the winner of the 2017 Kurt Brown Prize...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | recent events
Fran Lock is a sometime itinerant dog whisperer and author of three poetry collections, Flatrock (Little Episodes, 2011), The Mystic and the Pig Thief (Salt, 2014), and Dogtooth (Out Spoken Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in various places, most...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | recent events
Liz Berry’s debut collection, Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014. Black...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | recent events
John Greening has published more than a dozen collections (notably To the War Poets, Carcanet, 2013), and several studies of poetry and poets. His edition of Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War (OUP) appeared in 2015, along with a classical music...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Esther Morgan was born in Kidderminster and in 1992 worked as a volunteer with the Wordsworth Trust, then worked full-time for Cheltenham Arts Festivals. She studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she also edited four...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Andrew McMillan was born in South Yorkshire in 1988: his debut collection Physical is the first ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award, it also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, was short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize,...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Jack Underwood was born in Norwich in 1984. He graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 2005 before completing an MA and PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, where he now teaches English Literature and Creative Writing. He was awarded an...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Henrietta Rose-Innes is a South African author of four novels and a short-story collection. The UK and US editions of her novel Nineveh were published in 2016, and Green Lion will arrive in the UK in 2017. Her work has won the Caine Prize for African Writing...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Alvin Pang is a poet, writer and editor from Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program, an advisor to the International Poetry Studies Institute, and a founding director of The Literary Centre, Singapore. Listed in the Oxford Companion to...
