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Details of March/April competition on Welcome to Kudos page; deadline April 12
Kudos 81 MARCH/APRIL 2010
IT’S A CLASSIC
The Keats & Shelley and The Times Stephen Spender Prizes - and the call of the wild, plus the weird and the wonderful: short stories for Calderdale.
Those in favour of poetry, fiction or non-fiction can go for the Proverse Prize.
You can have a quick look at vignettes for Segora,
or create a big bang in Cannon Poet’s Sonnet Competition.
Or a character named The Sleeper, if graphic novels are your thing.
From creations to creatures of all kinds, poetically speaking, mostly, from Blue Butterfly to Grey Hen: Moon Rabbit, Frogmore, Purple Moose … not forgetting Red Shed and LaScala
Still time for Earlyworks (and various competitions), Ver, David Burland and Hannah Frank, and your Wares can also head for Northampton, Southport and Winchester. Plus of course, Italy (which is where I’m going, for Poetry on the Lake)
There’s also a pressing need humorous poems for IRON, and for plays, turn
to the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
And we’ll leave you this time with the Face of Compassion Arts Competition
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Winners of the 2nd Kudos Competition:
1st: Prose Poem, a whole year of Orbis subs
Sidekick by John Walsh
When I was a student, I played Kiro, Basho’s
gawky, little sidekick monk in Edward Bond’s
‘Narrow Road to the deep North’. I fitted the part
perfectly. Every night for a week I had to fake
hara-kiri. It’s the closest I want to come to death.
Joint runners up; 2 issues
Gabriel Griffin (Stork) and Oz Hardwick (A Child’s Atlas of Dreams)
1st: Short Story, a whole year of Orbis subs
Going Gently by Rosemary Badcoe
Misunderstanding the instructions, they’ve brought a goat, a rope round its gawky neck. They’re at the terminus, luggage intact, all kin accounted for. Was this the intent, to reach death cautiously? They move towards the waiting room. Seraphs descend; the Angel of the North raises arms in greeting.
Joint runners up, 2 issues
Sonia Hendy-Isaac (Burlesque)
and Karen Sands-O’Connor (Green is the Color of Escape)
Honorable Mentions,
Copy of current issue of Kudos
Derek Adams; Aidan Baker; Alexandra Benedict; Lynne Hackles; James Miller; Noah Tipton
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Winner of the Manga Jiman competition is Helen Buckingham of Bristol.
Several people had similar ideas, but I felt this was spot on:
manga jiman
opening the comic
her eyes widen
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Kudos - for people who prize writing
You may know one of these winners, and you could be one of them
Many congratulations to our subscribers (Orbis and Kudos)
Roger Elkin: 1st, Diversity House Poetry Competition
Barbara Daniels: 1st,
Writer’s Bureau Poetry & Short Story Competition (poetry)
Julia Painter: 1st, Writeonsite
Jeremy Worman, 1st, Cinnamon Press Short Story Competition
Derek Taylor, 1st, Carillon Minisaga Competition
Gol McAdam, 1st,
Sussex Playwrights Club 2008 Television Screenplay Competition
Annette Keen, Winner of The Yeovil Literary Prize (novel category)
Oz Hardwick, Winner of the Dawntreader Poetry Award;
Alan Spencer, Joint Winner of the Indigo Dreams Booklet Competition
Look forward to your comments: send us your contest details, judge’s reports and success stories
About the Editor
Carole Baldock is the author of Making Money from Writing - and a second hand copy from Amazon will cost you 25 quid…
But it can be yours for just a fiver, emailed as an updated pdf file.
She is currently Editor of Orbis International Literary Journal, one of very few publication which provides proofs:
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Other books
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How to Raise Confident Children;
Writing Reviews.
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As a freelance for over 15 years, she has had a wide range of writing published home and abroad: news items; reviews for The Stage, Whatsonstage, BBC, etc; features in national newspapers.
Her work also includes marketing -
one book from an American publisher has sold over 25,000 copies.
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