by Helen Ivory | Dec 17, 2016 | recent events
Alison Moore’s first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterick Prize. Her most recent novel is Death and the Seaside. Her short...
by Helen Ivory | May 31, 2016 | recent events
Photo – Esther Ling Sarah Perry was born in Essex. She gained a PhD in Creative Writing & the Gothic from Royal Holloway in 2012, having been supervised by Andrew Motion. A winner of the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize & a Royal Holloway doctoral...
by Helen Ivory | May 18, 2016 | recent events
Photo of Isobel Dixon by Jo Kearney Isobel Dixon was born in South Africa where her debut collection Weather Eye won the Olive Schreiner Award. She co-wrote and performed in the multi-media show The Debris Field, about RMS Titanic, and is working on a collaboration...
by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2016 | recent events
Michael Laskey co-founded the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1989 and co-edited fifty issues of the poetry magazine Smiths Knoll between1991 and 2012. His Garlic Press publishes mainly Suffolk-based poets. Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and twice PBS recommended,...
by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2016 | recent events
We are delighted to welcome the winners and the runner-up of the inaugural Stare’s Nest Fledgling Award for the best debut pamphlet competition for a poet over forty, to Cafe Writers. This year’s judge was our very own Martin Figura, who...
by Helen Ivory | May 15, 2016 | recent events
Photo of Peter Daniels by David Green Peter Daniels has won poetry competitions including the Arvon, Ledbury and TLS, and published pamphlets with Smith/Doorstop, Vennel Press and HappenStance. His first collection Counting Eggs appeared from Mulfran Press (Cardiff)...
by Helen Ivory | May 14, 2016 | recent events
Born in Hungary in 1948, George Szirtes published his first book of poems, The Slant Door, in 1979. It won the Faber Prize. He has published many since then, winning the T S Eliot Prize in 2004, for which he has been twice shortlisted since, most recently for Bad...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 17, 2016 | recent events
Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. Her collections include The Country at My Shoulder (1993), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and the Whitbread poetry prizes and selected for the Poetry Society’s ‘New Generation Poets’ promotion), Europa...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2015 | recent events
JL Williams’ first collection, Condition of Fire (Shearsman, 2011), was inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and a journey to the Aeolian Islands. Her second collection, Locust and Marlin (Shearsman, 2014), explores the idea of home and where...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 14, 2015 | recent events
Jemima Foxtrot was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Spoken Word Fellowship 2015. She has performed extensively across the UK at venues and festivals including Latitude Festival, Colchester Arts Centre and Nuffield Theatre. She recently...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 13, 2015 | recent events
Preti Taneja began writing fiction in 2010, inspired by her work as a reporter, filmmaker and activist in the field of human rights. She has worked with people fleeing conflict in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Rwanda and Kenya among other places and her...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 12, 2015 | recent events
Tiffany Atkinson is a poet, literary critic, and long-time creative writing teacher in universities, schools and community writing groups. Her poetry is published widely in journals and anthologies, and her first collection Kink and Particle (Seren,...
