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Litfest launches its 26th annual poetry competition with the news that this year's judge is locally based Whitbread poetry prize winner and lecturer in creative writing at Lancaster University, Paul Farley.
Born in Liverpool, Paul Farley studied at the Chelsea School of Art and has previously won a Forward Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award as well as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. From 2000-2002 he was writer-in-resident at The Wordsworth Trust in Grassmere.
Described as one of the best new talents in contemporary poetry, Paul won the nationally acclaimed award for his latest collection of poetry "The Ice Age". A Poetry Book Society choice for the summer of 2002, it was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
"I'm excited to have a poet of Paul Farley's talent judging the competition, it's a great opportunity for every writer out there. In a change to previous years, Poems 26 centres of the theme of 'Everyone's a part of something' and that's exactly what we aim to achieve with our competition, everyone who enters, successful or not, is a part of our writing community, supporting writing work with everyone across the ages"
(Litfest Artistic Director, Andy Darby)
Paul Farley's awards include, the Whitbread Poetry Award, 2003, Poetry Book Society Choice - Summer 2002, Arts Council Writer's Award, 2000, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, 1999, Somerset Maugham Award, 1999, Shortlisted for Whitbread Poetry Prize, 1999, Forward Prize for Best First Collection, 1998, Geoffrey Dearmer Award, 1997, Observer/Arvon International Award winner, 1996.
Thirty winning poems will be published in litfest's annual anthology launched during festival week, at which the successful authors will be invited to read their poems and share a glass of wine with the other winners, all of whom will be awarded a cash prize.
Those selected automatically become eligible for the John Ward memorial prize, awarded to the poet most in tune with the spirit of the work of the late writer.
Entry forms are available in libraries across the country, or can be found on the litfest website at www.litfest.org. The deadline for the poetry competition is Monday 4th August this year.
Litfest '03 runs from 8th to the 16th November. |
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