by Web Admin | Sep 13, 2019 | News
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Daljit Nagra. Daljit writes: The Café Writers Competition, from its title implies a local manner, yet the entries were truly international. I loved judging this...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
9th March – Amanthi Harris and S.A. Harris Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and has degrees in Law and Chemistry from Bristol University. Her novel BEAUTIFUL PLACE is published by Salt....
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
Zaffar Kunial (headliner and competition judge) Competition winners (support) Published by Faber & Faber, Zaffar Kunial’s debut book — ‘Us’ (2018) — was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Rathbones...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
9th December – Chrissy Williams and Kathy Pimlott Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor living in London. She edits the online poetry journal PERVERSE. Her first book-length collection BEAR was published by Bloodaxe in 2017. Poetry Review called it...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
11th November 2019 – Ink, Sweat & Tears: commission winners Gail Connell & Jo Young UEA MA Scholars – Konstantin Nicholas Rega and Memoona Zahid Gail McConnell is a writer and lecturer from Belfast. Her first poetry pamphlet is Fourteen (Green Bottle...
by Web Admin | Aug 2, 2019 | recent events
14th October – Joint headline Mary Jean Chan and Will Harris Mary Jean Chan was born and raised in Hong Kong, and studied at the universities of Oxford and Royal Holloway. Her debut collection Flèche is a Poetry Society Recommendation, and was recently...
by Web Admin | Jul 2, 2019 | recent events
9th September – Mona Arshi (headliner) Kostya Tsolákis (support) Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. She has also...
