THE POETS ~ Medusa & her Sisters
Sue Rose is the author of two full poetry collections published by Cinnamon Press: From the Dark Room (2011) and The Cost of Keys (2014). A chapbook of sonnets paired with her own photos, Heart Archives, was published by Hercules Editions (2014). Tonewood, a book of poems written in response to photos of trees by Lawrence Impey, was published by Eaglesfield Editions in 2019 and her third Cinnamon collection, Scion, is due out in 2020. She won the
Troubadour Poetry Prize in 2009 and the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition in 2008.
Sarah Watkinson is a plant scientist with a 2012 diploma in creative writing from Oxford University. Recent poems can be seen in The Rialto; Ink, Sweat and Tears; Pennine Platform; Well Versed; Waterlines; Nutshells and Nuggets; The Stare’s Nest. Sarah is a Cinnamon pamphlet prize winner 2016. Her debut pamphlet ‘Dung Beetles Navigate by Starlight’ is published by Cinnamon Press.
Sita Brahmachari’s work spans novel, short story, theatre and poetry. She has published over ten novels for young people, winning the Waterstones Children's Book Award and was granted the International Board of Books for Young People Honour for Writing. Her theatre work includes a celebrated poetic circus/ theatre adaptation of The Arrival by Shaun Tan, with Tamasha Theatre Company. Sita is an Amnesty International Ambassador.
Catherine Ayres is a teacher who lives and works in Northumberland. In 2015 she came third in the Hippocrates Poetry Competition. She won the Elbow Room Poetry Prize 2016 with Silence. Her debut collection, Amazon, is published by Indigo Dreams.
Jane Burn is a writer and artist, originally from South Yorkshire, who currently lives with her family in the North East of England. Her poems have been published in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies. She recently won the 2018 Poetry on the Lake and PENfro Book Festival prizes.
Arabella Currie’s first collection, The Divers, is published by Hurst Street Press. Her poems have won various awards including a Foyle Young Poets Award, the Newdigate Prize and the inaugural New Nature Writing prize and have been published in the anthology Poems in an Exhibition. She is currently working on a series of translations of ancient Greek lyric poems, exploring how ancient appreciations of nature may help us articulate the value of the earth in contemporary times.
Emily Hasler was born in Suffolk but has washed up on the Essex side of the River Stour. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2014. A pamphlet, Natural Histories, was published by Salt in 2011. Her first full-length collection, The Built Environment, came out in 2018 from Pavilion Poetry and moves between the local and the distant, the urban and the rural, and past and present. Hasler’s poems probe at the ways we understand and reconstruct our environment. Examining places, objects, buildings, landscapes, rivers and bridges, these poems ask how our world is made, and how it makes us.
Anoushka Havinden is an artist and writer, who writes fiction and poetry under the name N Magennis; her poems have won the James Kirkup prize, the William Soutar Prize and the Nairn Book Festival Poetry Prize. Her pamphlet Meeting the Buddha in Dumbarton is published by Red Squirrel Press. She has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Gutter, Poetry Scotland and Iota.
Ria Maya Bhatta read English at Cambridge University. She usually lives and works London, though she is currently residing in Italy. One of her poems was highly commended in the 2017 Brian Dempsey Memorial Competition. She is currently working on a sequence of poems about the Greek myth of Medea.
Ramona Herdman's new pamphlet of poems about lust, love and sexual politics, 'A warm and snouting thing', will be published by The Emma Press in summer 2019. Her previous pamphlet, ‘Bottle’, was published by HappenStance Press in 2017; it was one of the Poetry School’s Books of the Year 2017 and was the Poetry Book Society’s Spring 2018 Pamphlet Choice.
Laura McKee’s poems have appeared in journals including The Rialto, Butcher’s Dog and Under the Radar, in anthologies including Mildly Erotic Verse (Emma Press, 2013), and on a bus, as a winner of the Guernsey International Poetry Competition. She has been twice shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and was nominated for The Forward Prizes.
Wendy Pratt is a professional poet and playwright living on the North Yorkshire coast. She is coastal columnist for Yorkshire Life Magazine and editor for Dream Catcher literary arts magazine. She has had four collections of poetry published and her fifth is due out in 2020. Her latest collection, Gifts the Mole Gave Me is available from Valley Press.
Jo Reardon writes fiction, drama and poetry. Her work includes ekphrastic collaborations at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery with Iain Andrews and the Corinium Museum in Cirencester with Richard Kenton Webb. Her stories have been shortlisted for several prizes, she was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Debut Novel award, 2017 and had plays produced on BBC Radio 4. Jo has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD from Lancaster University. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the Open University.
Natalie Shaw lives and works in London. She has a kind husband and children of varying sizes. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies, including Magma and Strix. Her poem I know you only invited me in for coffee, but was commended in the 2018 National Poetry Competition.
Troubadour Poetry Prize in 2009 and the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition in 2008.
Sarah Watkinson is a plant scientist with a 2012 diploma in creative writing from Oxford University. Recent poems can be seen in The Rialto; Ink, Sweat and Tears; Pennine Platform; Well Versed; Waterlines; Nutshells and Nuggets; The Stare’s Nest. Sarah is a Cinnamon pamphlet prize winner 2016. Her debut pamphlet ‘Dung Beetles Navigate by Starlight’ is published by Cinnamon Press.
Sita Brahmachari’s work spans novel, short story, theatre and poetry. She has published over ten novels for young people, winning the Waterstones Children's Book Award and was granted the International Board of Books for Young People Honour for Writing. Her theatre work includes a celebrated poetic circus/ theatre adaptation of The Arrival by Shaun Tan, with Tamasha Theatre Company. Sita is an Amnesty International Ambassador.
Catherine Ayres is a teacher who lives and works in Northumberland. In 2015 she came third in the Hippocrates Poetry Competition. She won the Elbow Room Poetry Prize 2016 with Silence. Her debut collection, Amazon, is published by Indigo Dreams.
Jane Burn is a writer and artist, originally from South Yorkshire, who currently lives with her family in the North East of England. Her poems have been published in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies. She recently won the 2018 Poetry on the Lake and PENfro Book Festival prizes.
Arabella Currie’s first collection, The Divers, is published by Hurst Street Press. Her poems have won various awards including a Foyle Young Poets Award, the Newdigate Prize and the inaugural New Nature Writing prize and have been published in the anthology Poems in an Exhibition. She is currently working on a series of translations of ancient Greek lyric poems, exploring how ancient appreciations of nature may help us articulate the value of the earth in contemporary times.
Emily Hasler was born in Suffolk but has washed up on the Essex side of the River Stour. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2014. A pamphlet, Natural Histories, was published by Salt in 2011. Her first full-length collection, The Built Environment, came out in 2018 from Pavilion Poetry and moves between the local and the distant, the urban and the rural, and past and present. Hasler’s poems probe at the ways we understand and reconstruct our environment. Examining places, objects, buildings, landscapes, rivers and bridges, these poems ask how our world is made, and how it makes us.
Anoushka Havinden is an artist and writer, who writes fiction and poetry under the name N Magennis; her poems have won the James Kirkup prize, the William Soutar Prize and the Nairn Book Festival Poetry Prize. Her pamphlet Meeting the Buddha in Dumbarton is published by Red Squirrel Press. She has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Gutter, Poetry Scotland and Iota.
Ria Maya Bhatta read English at Cambridge University. She usually lives and works London, though she is currently residing in Italy. One of her poems was highly commended in the 2017 Brian Dempsey Memorial Competition. She is currently working on a sequence of poems about the Greek myth of Medea.
Ramona Herdman's new pamphlet of poems about lust, love and sexual politics, 'A warm and snouting thing', will be published by The Emma Press in summer 2019. Her previous pamphlet, ‘Bottle’, was published by HappenStance Press in 2017; it was one of the Poetry School’s Books of the Year 2017 and was the Poetry Book Society’s Spring 2018 Pamphlet Choice.
Laura McKee’s poems have appeared in journals including The Rialto, Butcher’s Dog and Under the Radar, in anthologies including Mildly Erotic Verse (Emma Press, 2013), and on a bus, as a winner of the Guernsey International Poetry Competition. She has been twice shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and was nominated for The Forward Prizes.
Wendy Pratt is a professional poet and playwright living on the North Yorkshire coast. She is coastal columnist for Yorkshire Life Magazine and editor for Dream Catcher literary arts magazine. She has had four collections of poetry published and her fifth is due out in 2020. Her latest collection, Gifts the Mole Gave Me is available from Valley Press.
Jo Reardon writes fiction, drama and poetry. Her work includes ekphrastic collaborations at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery with Iain Andrews and the Corinium Museum in Cirencester with Richard Kenton Webb. Her stories have been shortlisted for several prizes, she was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Debut Novel award, 2017 and had plays produced on BBC Radio 4. Jo has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD from Lancaster University. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the Open University.
Natalie Shaw lives and works in London. She has a kind husband and children of varying sizes. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies, including Magma and Strix. Her poem I know you only invited me in for coffee, but was commended in the 2018 National Poetry Competition.