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Competition success!

ambolineamboline
edited March 2006 in - Writing Tales

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  • ambolineamboline
    Feeling triumphant this morning. One of my poems just won first prize in the Envoi poetry competition that closed in February!

    So, not only do I get my poem in a prestigious poetic journal, I also get some money :)

    And CV points, of course. Wahey!
  • Stan2Stan2
    Three cheers! Great news!
  • Hush PuppyHush Puppy
    Brilliant news Amboline.  Congratulations.
  • moiramoira
    Well done Amboline!
    great news, put it on your author bio.
  • CarolCarol
    Congratulations amboline, publication AND money.
  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    The previous post says it all! Congratulations!
  • JaceyJacey
    Congratulations!  Enjoy your success.
  • sooz48sooz48
    Well done Amboline, that's great news.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    great news for this evening! Congrats!
  • Kathy MorganKathy Morgan
    Congratulations, Amboline, well done.
  • KangarooKangaroo
    Whoo,hoo Amboline! Well done!
  • ambolineamboline
    And I've just followed that with a "Highly Commended" in another competition ;-)

    The trouble is, that now most of my best material has won stuff I'm going to need to write some more...
  • KangarooKangaroo
    Congratulations Amboline!
  • JaceyJacey
    Well done!
  • ambolineamboline
    I seem to have done it again. Another poetry competition. Another first prize!

    Only a small one (on both counts) this time. But judged by someone fairly well-known. It all counts as a massive ego boost, anyway. Suggests I must be doing something right :)
  • salwritesalwrite
    fantastic Well done!
  • ambolineamboline
    Apologies for bringing this thread back from the vaults - but I heard yesterday that I've notched up my third poetry competition success this year. Second prize in the Hastings poetry competition ;-) Couldn't have come at a better time, really, a modest cash boost to help towards the expense of relocation...

    I also had my first ever "review" last week. Well, it wasn't more than a passing couple of words really - somebody from the Milton Keynes Citizen was reviewing the last issue of Monkey Kettle magazine and picked out two or three poems for special mention as "We particularly liked...", one of which was mine :)
  • CarolCarol
    Congratulations on your double success.
  • TillyTilly
    Great news, Amboline. Congratulations! A nice boost after all of your house moving traumas!
  • Island GirlIsland Girl
    Well done Amboline. Congrats from me.
  • doradora
    Well done that Writer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo hooo.
    Clever you. Congrats.
  • JennyJenny
    Well done for the competition success and the review! Is it worth writing to the reviewer and saying "thanks"? Might get you another mention!
  • AnnaAnna
    Good stuff, Amboline.
  • katzkrewkatzkrew
    Congrats!!! Great news!
  • BetsieBetsie
    Great news - well done - enjoy cloud nine
  • BudBud
    Well done amboline, fully deserved.
  • ambolineamboline
    I must be on a roll here... have also heard in the last week that I've managed a commendation in Quantum Leap, and third prize in the Cambridge poetry competition! That makes 5 competition successes this year.
  • dorothyddorothyd
    A roll? Isn't it just talent shining through? Congrats!
  • Mad Doctor DribbleMad Doctor Dribble
    Well done amboline!
  • AnnaAnna
    Good on ya, Amboline.  How's the judging of the Speakeasy comp going, by the way?
  • ambolineamboline
    Haha! I think a collection of my own is still a long way off, yet - I need to at least get to the end of the WN home study course and absorb the lessons from that (the lessons about notebook-keeping and how to revise your work have been paying dividends so far ;-)). It's a dream I have, certainly. I think I prefer to keep plugging away at the competitions until I have enough "recognised" material that I can justify pitching to one of the respected independents, rather than self-publish. In the meantime, I still have my website. It's getting a slow spring-clean (winter-clean?) at the moment so there should be a bit of new material on there soon.

    In the shorter term, my poetic ambition is to get placed in one of the bigger competitions. I managed a "Highly Commended" in the Norwich comp this year, along with about 50 other people, which is a start; but it's the likes of the Kent & Sussex that I'd *really* like to crack. My successes so far have all been with smaller comps; the Envoi one that started this thread has been my biggest so far (Alison Chisholm reckons they get about 700 entries for each competition).
  • ambolineamboline
    First successes of 2007 to report... firstly a £5 M&S voucher in a little competition for humorous poems organised by those awfully nice people at Dream Catcher. And yesterday, I heard I'd won the award for a Minimalist Poem in this year's Norwich Writers' Circle poetry competition. Never thought I'd see the day when I'd win an award for minimalist poetry, but I certainly can't complain, especially as there were some quite well known names on the winners' list next to me! ;-)
  • CarolCarol
    Well done Amboline, all good points for your CV.
    Last week we had John Lucas of the Shoestring Poetry Press, speaking at our Writers Club. He said he would expect to see, in approaches from poets, a good body of poems printed in respected poetry magazines and journals.
    There was a lot more beside that, but that seemed to be important to start with.
  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    Well done!
  • Tessa TangentTessa Tangent
    Well done, you!  What's minimalist poetry?  Please give an example for dumbo here.
  • KangarooKangaroo
    Well done amboline!
  • josiehenleyjosiehenley
    wow, what a string of successes Amboline - leave some comps for the rest of us! (only joking, you go for it)
  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    TT, it's obviously very, very, minimalist!
  • Tessa TangentTessa Tangent
    Here's my go:

    Roses are red, violets are blue
    I can't be bothered, can you?
  • VericaVerica
    Congratulations, Amboline!
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