The January Cult Members-Only Challenge
AND THE WINNERS ARE… I’m please to say that Julie Stevens and Phil Santus will see their Sticklebacks published this Summer – congratulations to both of them and many thanks to everybody that took part.Apologies that this is a little later than planned (err, more than a little) but hopefully you will enjoy it nonetheless. I’ve extended the deadline until the end of February, although there will of course be a February Challenge too. One of the things I want to do in 2021 is bring back the Sticklebacks, and Mr Damien B Donnelly himself, sees his being launched as the first of the year, but he is not destined to be left alone, and so I am looking for TWO more to be published this year.
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: 28th February 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.