Orla Fay: The Bridport Prize

Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Bridport Prize

I'm so excited because I just entered this competition online and I've never entered this competition before. The maximum length for a poem is 42 lines excluding title and it costs 6 pound sterling for one entry of a single poem, roughly 6 euro 70 cents. Poems must be single spaced. The poem I entered was written last Winter and it's been revised many times, but I bet it still needs work! The deadline for entries is the 30th June. The judge for the Bridport poetry section is the famous Carol Ann Duffy. I have her collection Rapture which I enjoyed:

Falling in love

is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart

like a tiger ready to kill; a flame's fierce licks under the skin.

Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.

from You, Carol Ann Duffy

I've spent hours today working on my poetry and I've been so happy doing it. Some would say that I need to get a life or join a support group. I did stop to eat, take exercise and drink coffee.

http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/

3 comments:

Michael FarryApril 17, 2011 at 9:02 PM
Best of luck Orla!
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Orla FayApril 17, 2011 at 9:08 PM
Thanks, I think I need it :P
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TitusApril 18, 2011 at 8:30 AM
Good Luck. I am so impressed that you also ate, exercised and drank coffee. I never manage that.
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"Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."

"When the heart weeps for what it has lost the spirit laughs for what it has found."

"(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"

Orla Fay is a member of Boyne Writers Group. In 2001 she won the Meath Chronicle/Bookwise Short Story Competition and in 2003 the Drogheda Creative Writers Adult Poetry Competition. In 2004 she had a poem commended in the Golden Pen Poetry Competition and in 2005 she was awarded 3rd place in the Dunlavin Poetry Competition and published in the 23rd Dunlavin Festival of Arts Annual. She has been published in the Meath Chronicle, New Poems of Oriel (2006), Boyne Berries Magazine, Crannog Magazine, Revival Poetry Journal, The Sharp Review, Ropes 2010, NUIG's Writers' Society's Writers' Exchange Chapbook, Riposte, Wordlegs, The Linnet's Wings, The Stony Thursday Book 2011 & 2013, thefirstcut, Shot Glass Journal, Census 3, Silver Blade Magazine, HeadSpace, Outburst, The Galway Review, The Artistic Atlas of Galway, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Carillon, The Poetry Porch, Three Drops from a Cauldron, The Ofi Press, Headstuff, Abridged, Amaryllis, The Pickled Body, A New Ulster, Tales from the Forest, The Honest Ulsterman, Lagan Online, An Anthology of Reactions, The Rose Magazine, Orbis and The Ogham Stone 2017. In 2008 she was a finalist in the Meath County Library Eist Poetry Competition. In 2009 she had a poem commended in the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award. In 2010 she had a poem highly commended in the Windows Publications Cavan Crystal Poetry Award. In 2011 she had a story selected for The Lonely Voice: Short Story Introductions in The Irish Writers' Centre. In June 2012 she published her poetry chapbook Drawn to the Light. She was a featured reader at O'Bheal in Cork in March 2013. She was highly commended for poetry in The Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Awards in October 2013 and long-listed in the WOW fiction Awards 2014. She was longlisted for poetry in The Anthony Cronin International Poetry Prize 2017, The Fish Poetry Prize 2017 and The Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition 2017 and shortlisted in The Rush Poetry Competition 2017, The Dermot Healy Poetry Award 2017 and The Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition 2017.