Winners of #micropoem14 competition announced
18 Jul 2014
The Twitter based poetry competition which ran from 7-14 July 2014
Following the success of last year's micropoetry competition, the Centre for New Writing and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester recently ran a micropoem14 competition.
The competition, which was themed around the ‘English Summer’, took place between Monday 7 and Monday 14 July 2014 on Twitter and participants were asked to simply tweet their micropoem with the hashtag #micropoem14.
Approximately 150 micropoems were received and judged by the Centre for New Writing’s John McAuliffe, Janet Rogerson and Eleanor Ward.
1st Prize - Leon Zos
Sailed sheets
Smoke over lawns
Old iron and Greensleeves
Bikes by the corner shop door.
Now a tin hat of ashes fills with rain
2nd Prize - Josephine Corcoran
'Picnic'
When it rains
we wear our tartan rugs like capes
shake crumbs of DNA in fields
while workers take the queen our jam
Joint 3rd Prize - Therese Lawlor-Wright
Waterlily, dragonfly, ripples on the pool, revelations on a bench - nature school.
Joint 3rd Prize - John North
Today English Summer is a glass of cider
sitting on a stone rising from a stream
by a rockpool built on an old 44 pence OS map.
Published online
Prizes for the best three poems include tickets to one of the Centre for New Writing's autumn “Literature Live” events, as well as a signed Jeanette Winterson book and vouchers. The winning micropoems will be published on the online arts journal the Manchester Review.
Special mentions
The judges enjoyed reading through the entries and found it very hard to whittle them down to a shortlist, but they felt that the winning poems chosen managed to achieve the most in the very small space that a tweet allows. They all managed the difficult trick of picturing very clearly and with feeling a particular place and time.
Further information:
Read the competition's micropoems by filtering #micropoem14 on Twitter.
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures