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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: competition

Posted on 4 March 2019

Sing for a winner …

Thank you to those who entered the glosa competition – wow! I love what each of you did with the lines you chose, and I’m guessing you had fun doing it. (I hope so, at least!) Picking a winner was tricky, but in the end I’m going with Jac Jenkins’ wired – I think it …

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Posted on 14 January 201914 January 2019

HTFIIANYAA?! (or, How On Earth Is It A New Year Already Again??)

I did vaguely plan to do my usual signing off for the year post at the end of December, but then it turned out it was actually January. Not sure how that happened, but there you go. Which does at least spare me the embarrassment of doing a post summing up all the things that I …

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Posted on 22 May 201822 May 2018

Poetry Day Planning – fancy a competition?

With just on 24 hours to register, I’m wondering if I should run a CV2-inspired competition for National Poetry Day. Post a set of words at midnight, and then give people just 24 hours to write and submit a poem using all of them. See if I can wangle a few bucks from the official …

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Posted on 27 July 200928 July 2009

lolly-scramble – and the winner is …

Helen Rickerby! Congratulations Helen. I'll be in touch to confirm which book you'd like. For those of you who wondered about the selection process – I collected the names of those who had confessed to taking part, and used a version of alectromancy to select the winner. Terribly scientific, I know. What you each voted …

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Posted on 25 July 200926 July 2009

lolly-scramble competition

I know this is a Homer Simpson “Doh!” moment, but I had forgotten that the polls were anonymous. I only know the identity of two of the people who voted in my lolly-scramble competition. So I'm extending the deadline until Monday night NZ time, and appealing for those of you who have entered to leave …

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R4W: Odyssey by Anthology

Our annual look back at the previous year via the lens of The Best American Poetry, The Best Canadian Poetry in English and The Forward Book of Poetry.

A combination of discussion and writing exercises, suitable for all levels. And now with three venues!

For full details of all this year’s classes, see Classes for 2021 for information or Current Classes to enrol.

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