Members Success

September 2011

• Barney Conncanon's piece, "A Hairy Moment", published in Aeroplane Magazine, October 2011.
• Harriet performed her poem, "Results Day", at the Strawberry Fields festival.
• Four members of our group - Joyce Clark, Tony Gutteridge, Nick Humphreys and Janet Newman - have had their work included in a joint publication with Vaughan writers. Our Leicester is a "collection of anecdotes, memories, and observations of life past and present in the City and County of Leicester", and is published by Richard E Underwood Printing Services, Leicestershire. 

October 2011

• Rebecca Burns has been selected by the University of Leicester as one of the 50 writers from Leicestershire to feature on the Grassroutes Writers' Gallery. Grassroutes is an Arts Council funded project, with an aim of showcasing the best transcultural writing in the county. See http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/creativewriting/grassroutes for more information.
• Bernadette O'Dwyer's poem was chosen to be read out at the unveiling of a new sculpture at Pooley Heritage Park. The sculpture is placed on a "poetry trail" around the Heritage Park and Bernadette did brilliantly to have her poem read out at the launch.

December 2011

• Rebecca Burns' short story, "The Intruder", has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart is one of America's best known short story competitions and nominations can only be made by editors of journals within which a story has been published. More information is available at Rebecca's website: www.rebecca-burns.co.uk

March 2012

• Bernadette O'Dwyer's poem, "Jutt" has been selected as one of ten poems to mark the Polesworth Poetry Trail, which was established in order to celebrate the area's connection with Elizabethan poets. The poems were installed upon sculptures and Bernadette's poem was placed in prime position, next to the tea rooms at Pooley Heritage Park in Warwickshire.