Saturday, 2 December 2017
Launch of Joan Michelson's Landing Stage at Hornsey Library
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mandy pannett,
Nnorom Azuonye
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Monday, 27 November 2017
Sentinel Writing & Publishing Newsletter 28/11/2017
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Enter the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (November 2017) judged by Abegail Morley
SENTINEL LITERARY QUARTERLY POETRY COMPETITION
CLOSING DATE: 30-NOVEMBER-2017
Competition Details: Poems may be on any subject or style and must not have been previously published, or posted on a website or blog. Poems posted on members-only writing groups for workshop purposes as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published. Poems must also not be under consideration for publication or accepted for publication elsewhere. Poets of all nationalities living anywhere in the world are eligible to enter.
Length: Maximum 50 lines per poem
Entry Fees: £4/1 poem, £7/2 poems, £9/3 poems, £11/4 poems, £12.00/5 poems. (You may enter as many poems as you wish – with the applicable fees.)
Prizes: First: £200.00, Second: £100.00, Third: £50.00, Highly Commended: £20 x 3, Commended: £10 x 3, Special Mentions - x 3 (publication only)
First Publication: The winning and commended poems will be published in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine online and print (January - March 2018) issue on 31st January 2018)
Results due: 15th January 2018 announced in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine online at: http://www.sentinelquarterly.com/results.htm
Judge: Abegail Morley
Competition Administration: Sentinel Poetry Movement
Enter online or download entry form for postal entry here: http://www.sentinelquarterly.com/competitions/poetry/index.htm
CLOSING DATE: 30-NOVEMBER-2017
Competition Details: Poems may be on any subject or style and must not have been previously published, or posted on a website or blog. Poems posted on members-only writing groups for workshop purposes as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published. Poems must also not be under consideration for publication or accepted for publication elsewhere. Poets of all nationalities living anywhere in the world are eligible to enter.
Length: Maximum 50 lines per poem
Entry Fees: £4/1 poem, £7/2 poems, £9/3 poems, £11/4 poems, £12.00/5 poems. (You may enter as many poems as you wish – with the applicable fees.)
Prizes: First: £200.00, Second: £100.00, Third: £50.00, Highly Commended: £20 x 3, Commended: £10 x 3, Special Mentions - x 3 (publication only)
First Publication: The winning and commended poems will be published in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine online and print (January - March 2018) issue on 31st January 2018)
Results due: 15th January 2018 announced in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine online at: http://www.sentinelquarterly.com/results.htm
Judge: Abegail Morley
Competition Administration: Sentinel Poetry Movement
Enter online or download entry form for postal entry here: http://www.sentinelquarterly.com/competitions/poetry/index.htm
Sunday, 29 October 2017
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition - on-going international open every 3 months...since 2009
SENTINEL
LITERARY QUARTERLY POETRY COMPETITION
LITERARY QUARTERLY POETRY COMPETITION
Closing
Date: 30-November-2017
Date: 30-November-2017
For original, previously unpublished
poems in English language, on any subject, in any style up to 50 lines long. Poets
of all ages, gender, or nationality living in any part of the world are
eligible to enter. Prize-winning, commended and specially mentioned poems will
receive first publication in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine (online and
print).
poems in English language, on any subject, in any style up to 50 lines long. Poets
of all ages, gender, or nationality living in any part of the world are
eligible to enter. Prize-winning, commended and specially mentioned poems will
receive first publication in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine (online and
print).
Judge: Abegail Morley
Prizes: £200 (1st), £100 (2nd), £50 (3rd), £20 x 3 (High
Commendation), 3 x £10 (Commendation), 3 x Special Mentions (publication only)
Commendation), 3 x £10 (Commendation), 3 x Special Mentions (publication only)
Fees: £4/1, £7/2, £9/3, £11/4, £12/5, £16/7, £22/10
Contact:
Enter online and pay by PayPal or
download Entry Form for postal entries at
Enter online and pay by PayPal or
download Entry Form for postal entries at
Send cheques/postal orders payable to
Sentinel Poetry Movement to
Sentinel Poetry Movement to
Unit 136, 113-115 George Lane, South
Woodford, London E18 1AB
Woodford, London E18 1AB
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition - on-going international open every 3 months...since 2009
Sunday, 15 October 2017
RESULTS AND JUDGE’S REPORT – SLQ POETRY COMPETITION (AUGUST 2017)
JUDGE'S REPORT
I have, over the past couple of years or so, been involved in a number of conversations in which someone has bemoaned the dearth of political poems. My response has invariably been a bemused What? From the lone poem in a regular journal, through individual collections, to issue-based anthologies and epic projects like 100 Thousand Poets for Change, poetry – like all the arts – is articulating local and global political concern/engagement/anger/fear/etc. on paper, on-line, and on walls.
It is of course legitimate to ask what use such poems are against the often overwhelming insurmountable-seeming challenges we – regardless of race, religion, or any other differences – face, both politically and environmentally. To the despairing (and I occasionally fall into that category myself), I’d suggest that poetry can give voice to the voiceless, can distil the core of human experience into engines of visceral communication at the sharpest edge of language, and in doing so can remind us of the strength of our shared humanity. It can also do a lot more, of course, but these are perhaps the most pressing calls upon the arts at present.
I was heartened by the number of poems submitted for the competition that focused on issues from the wilful decimation of the British NHS by a self-interested government, to human displacement on a global scale: and, beyond this, they were very good poems indeed. Both ‘Lethal Theory’ and ‘In transit’ are excellent examples. The former employs military acronyms and the impersonal language of medicine, perfectly balanced around the human tragedy of those caught up in events within which they are barely acknowledged. Specific, yet chillingly universal, the poem’s strength lies as much in what is avoided as what is said, culminating in the blunt negative of that unforgettable final line. The latter is a very different poem, but no less powerful, the second-person address and controlled vagueness concerning detail places the reader uncomfortably into a limbo without full stops that continually stacks the odds against the shadow of hope that is desperately introduced mid-way through the final stanza.
Lest all this imply a single-mindedness of approach to subject in my assessment of the range of poems submitted, the ekphrastic ‘Vanitas’ stood out as a beautifully tight response to a painting that – as with all the best poems of its type – goes way beyond its descriptive surface, tapping into questions of faith and very corporeal connections and absences, resolving into that rich image of the ‘thick and wrinkled’ wax. Additionally, of course, it vividly evokes the private, domestic space and the dangerous unknown without, as – in their own ways – do the previously discussed poems. And if there was one overriding theme that arose time and time again in the submitted poems, it was this idea of the home, with all of its connotations of security and fragility. Indeed, of those dozen poems that made my short-list, more than half directly addressed the theme in one way or another: an indication, perhaps, of a shared response to uncertain times in which we are more conscious of our need for the safe and the known – and, I hope, for a place in which to welcome and be welcomed.
The pleasure in judging this competition was the difficulty of the task, and in the reaffirmation of poetry’s – and art’s more generally – importance.
- Oz Hardwick
Results of the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (August 2017)
Special Mentions:
Labile - Sharon Phillips
Surrender - Kelly Nunnerley
Your windows – L Thompson
Commended:
Our Father – Michael Brown
Swinger - Kathleen Strafford
Some have entertained angels unawares - Inky
Highly Commended:
Frozen Ringtone - Maria Isakova Bennett
What does the heart mean in popular culture? - Sharon Phillips
The Softening - Diane Cook
Third Prize:
Vanitas – Gabriel Griffin
Second Prize:
In transit - Greta Ross
First Prize:
Lethal theory – Noel Williams
It is of course legitimate to ask what use such poems are against the often overwhelming insurmountable-seeming challenges we – regardless of race, religion, or any other differences – face, both politically and environmentally. To the despairing (and I occasionally fall into that category myself), I’d suggest that poetry can give voice to the voiceless, can distil the core of human experience into engines of visceral communication at the sharpest edge of language, and in doing so can remind us of the strength of our shared humanity. It can also do a lot more, of course, but these are perhaps the most pressing calls upon the arts at present.
I was heartened by the number of poems submitted for the competition that focused on issues from the wilful decimation of the British NHS by a self-interested government, to human displacement on a global scale: and, beyond this, they were very good poems indeed. Both ‘Lethal Theory’ and ‘In transit’ are excellent examples. The former employs military acronyms and the impersonal language of medicine, perfectly balanced around the human tragedy of those caught up in events within which they are barely acknowledged. Specific, yet chillingly universal, the poem’s strength lies as much in what is avoided as what is said, culminating in the blunt negative of that unforgettable final line. The latter is a very different poem, but no less powerful, the second-person address and controlled vagueness concerning detail places the reader uncomfortably into a limbo without full stops that continually stacks the odds against the shadow of hope that is desperately introduced mid-way through the final stanza.
Lest all this imply a single-mindedness of approach to subject in my assessment of the range of poems submitted, the ekphrastic ‘Vanitas’ stood out as a beautifully tight response to a painting that – as with all the best poems of its type – goes way beyond its descriptive surface, tapping into questions of faith and very corporeal connections and absences, resolving into that rich image of the ‘thick and wrinkled’ wax. Additionally, of course, it vividly evokes the private, domestic space and the dangerous unknown without, as – in their own ways – do the previously discussed poems. And if there was one overriding theme that arose time and time again in the submitted poems, it was this idea of the home, with all of its connotations of security and fragility. Indeed, of those dozen poems that made my short-list, more than half directly addressed the theme in one way or another: an indication, perhaps, of a shared response to uncertain times in which we are more conscious of our need for the safe and the known – and, I hope, for a place in which to welcome and be welcomed.
The pleasure in judging this competition was the difficulty of the task, and in the reaffirmation of poetry’s – and art’s more generally – importance.
- Oz Hardwick
Results of the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (August 2017)
Special Mentions:
Labile - Sharon Phillips
Surrender - Kelly Nunnerley
Your windows – L Thompson
Commended:
Our Father – Michael Brown
Swinger - Kathleen Strafford
Some have entertained angels unawares - Inky
Highly Commended:
Frozen Ringtone - Maria Isakova Bennett
What does the heart mean in popular culture? - Sharon Phillips
The Softening - Diane Cook
Third Prize:
Vanitas – Gabriel Griffin
Second Prize:
In transit - Greta Ross
First Prize:
Lethal theory – Noel Williams
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Gap Year: Poetry from Andy Blackford & John Foggin
Sentinel poets Andy Blackford and John Foggin shall be reading from their
book Gap Year, winner of the SPM Publications Poetry Book Prize 2016, at the
Staithes Festival of Arts & Heritage on Saturday, September 9th
2017.Location: Viking Cottage, Seaton Garth. Venue: 96 ![]() Learn more about Gap Year here. | Buy from Amazon ******************** Could your next book be a prizewinning poetry collection?![]() Prizes: in addition to a standard publishing contract, there will also be cash prizes of £300 (first), £200 (second) and £100 (third). Each prizewinner will also receive 20 copies of his or her book. There is an Entry/Reading fee of £25.00 See the full competition details, terms and publishing schedule at http://www.spmpublications.com/competitions/2017.html ******************** Abegail Morley to judge the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (November 2017)![]()
Closing
Date: 30 November 2017
Judge: Abegail Morley
Prizes: £200 (1st), £100 (2nd), £50 (3rd), £20
x 3 (High Commendation), 3 x £10 (Commendation)
Fees: £4/1, £7/2, £9/3, £11/4, £12/5, £16/7,
£22/10
******************** Contact: office@sentinelwriting.com | competitions@sentinelpoetry.org.uk |
Saturday, 15 July 2017
Sunday, 11 June 2017
Sunday, 4 June 2017
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition - on-going international open every 3 months...since 2009
Saturday, 27 May 2017
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition - on-going international open every 3 months...since 2009
Competition Details
Poems may be on any subject or style and must not have been previously published, or posted on a website or blog. Poems posted on members-only writing groups for workshop purposes as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published. Poems must also not be under consideration for publication or accepted for publication elsewhere. Poets of all nationalities living anywhere in the world are eligible to enter.
Length: Maximum 50 lines per poem
Entry Fees: £4/1 poem, £7/2 poems, £9/3 poems, £11/4 poems, £12.00/5 poems. (You may enter as many poems as you wish – with the applicable fees.)
Prizes: First: £200.00, Second: £100.00, Third: £50.00,
Highly Commended: £20 x 3, Commended: £10 x 3.
First Publication: The winning and commended poems will be published in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine online (April - June 2017 issue on 30th April, 2017)
Results due: 15th July 2017 announced in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine online at: http://www.sentinelquarterly.com/results.htm
Judge: Anthony Watts, author of The Shell Gatherer
Competition Administration: Sentinel Poetry Movement
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition - on-going international open every 3 months...since 2009
Saturday, 1 April 2017
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Friday, 31 March 2017
Saturday, 25 March 2017
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This weekend only, we have discounted three issues of Sentinel Literary Quarterly from £6 to £4.50 + P&P.
Get a copy of Pilgrim Station by Dominic James for just £5.95 + P&P
Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition Sensation! Enter 10 poems for £24 only and choose one of the three magazines on offer,
or just enter normally and save £1.00 on standard entry fees.
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Thursday, 9 March 2017
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Thursday, 2 March 2017
Anthony Watts to judge Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (May 2017)
Anthony Watts to judge Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (May 2017): We are pleased to announce that Anthony Watts will judge the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (May 2017). The competition which is open to all poets living in any part of the world wi...
Friday, 24 February 2017
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition - on-going international open every 3 months...since 2009
The competition closes on the 28th February, 2017
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition - on-going international open every 3 months...since 2009
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition - on-going international open every 3 months...since 2009
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