Creative Writing Winners 2020
Shortlisted Poetry and Short Fiction works from the 2020 Prize are published in the Creative Writing Anthology 2021.
Poetry – Tamsin Hopkins
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Tamsin writes poetry and fiction. Her collection, SHORE TO SHORE, was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2017. Her debut pamphlet, Inside the Smile, was published in 2017. She is studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, London.
Short Fiction – Hazel Allan
Daft Cow (A True Story)
Hazel graduated with a Masters Degree in Screenwriting in 2018. She is the published author of the Bree McCready children’s book trilogy. Her portfolio includes short films, which have been recognised through top placings in competitions.
Follow Hazel on Twitter: @authorofbree
Shortlisted Writers 2020
Poetry
Alicia Sometimes – Cold Was The Ground
Anne M Cousins – AT THAT TIME
Betsy Blair – I Was a Good Mother, Other
Breda Spaight – Righteous Blood
Christopher M James – Ma 間
Darius Simpson – Approximation
David Yerex Williamson – From the womb
Dean Gessie – Deer [sic] Poetry Contest Judges
Elisabeth Sennitt – Clough A Cold Thing
Fiona Lynch – Corsetry.
Francesca Capossela – The Morning After Pill
Georgina Titmus – Private Viewing
Helen Quah – Fifteen Minutes
James Mulhern – Copacetic
Jane Lovell – Vitulus
Jane McKie – Denim Ontology
Jane Monson – The Girl and the Octopus
Jed Myers – Learning to Hold
Jenifer Lawrence – Sitting on a Porch Swing at Your Late Mother’s House Ten Years After Our Divorce
Jennifer Harrison – Ribonucleic Acid and Faust
Jonathan Greenhause – Not for Sale
Julie Manning – Heaving the Needles
Kelly Davis – To My Hands
Lucy Wilson – Memento Mori
Marc Woodward – Leaving Switzerland
Margot Douaihy – Don’t
Mary Mulholland – Diptych, painting on two hinged wooden panels which may be closed like a book
Michele Parker Randall – Hear me out
Molly Underwood – I said to the doctor
Oli Isaac – they ask me how did you get here. can’t you see it on my body?
Oliver Cocks – Swanston St
Patrice Wilson – Bone-clock
Paula Harris – Picasso invites me around for Sunday brunch and I find I cannot eat the fruit
Penelope Layland – Unheralded Acts of the Gorgon
Rachel Goodman – Autumn Equinox
S. Erin Batiste – Glory to All Fleeting Things
Sally Davis – Chair
Simon Linter – Panic
Wes Lee – The Field: Persephone
Short Fiction
Annie Warren – Champagne
Cathie Burton – Never Forget
Chrissie Cuthbertson – When you were a boy
Gaynor Jones – Something Like Drowning
Jan Kaneen – The Time-traveller’s Daughter
Jane Campion Hoye – Coming Back to Life
Jill Young – The Last Will and Testament of Leah Jane Aycott
Josephine Galvin – Identity
Lucy Porter – Business Trip
Lucy Grace – The Colour Forty
Marc Joan – Three Red Tulips
Michelle Jager – ‘Python Yellow’
Mick Donaldson – The Rescue Dog
Molly McCaffrey – Two People for Six O’Clock
Ola Mustapha – The Gulf Between Them
Oliver Hawthorne – Fifteen Minutes in January
Rick Westwell – The Dragon Under the Bridge
Sadhbh Crean – Deficient
Sakinah Hofler – Erasure
Images:
1. Christopher Stott.
2. Massimo Colonna.