The December Cult Members-Only Challenge
As the Sticklebacks are going from strength to somewhere even strongerer, I wanted to make sure that we have a few Cult members featured heavily, so December’s Challenge is to fill TWO of those hallowed sets of pages with your work.AND THE WINNERS ARE
Niki Strange & Kate Young
Who will see their Sticklebacks published later this year
Thank you to everybody who took part!
The Challenge: A Stickleback should have four pages of poetry that together give comment on a single idea. In truth this has been bent in every way over the last few years, but here I am looking for a poet with a point to be made and so four poems it shall be. So to be clear:
- Write Four poems each of a maximum of 40 lines, that tell me something I don’t know, beautifully. The idea of the Sticklebacks is that they make a point that needs to be made, political, personal, a statement of love – whatever your choice is, is fine.
- Email your poems in a single document to entry to: COMPETITION@HEDGEHOGPRESS.CO.UK
- Obviously this is only open to members of the Cult of the Spiny Hog
- Deadline: 31st December 2021
- They will receive 100 copies of the printed edition each, which they can sell, give-away, wallpaper with as they see fit
- Cult members will obviously receive a printed copy
- The eBook PDF edition will become available at some point in the future.