May/June Challenge – One: Shadows and Tall Trees

The May and June Cult Members-only Challenge – Part One

AND THE WINNERS ARE… Well, that was a spooktastic collection of poetry you all put me through – I got it down to the magix Twenty Poems, but it was darn tricky… But getting to the point, I am many colours of pleased to be able to say that the ‘Shadows of Tall Trees’ Anthology will be published this Autumn, containing rather scary work from:
    1. Adele Cordner
    2. Claire Lynn
    3. David Evans
    4. Des Childs
    5. Dominique Hecq
    6. Emma Lord
    7. Gaynor Kane
    8. Joan Lennon
    9. John Kitchen
    10. Julie Stevens
    11. Kate Young
    12. Kathy Finney
    13. Kelly Davis
    14. Lara Reid
    15. Manning Goodwin
    16. Margaret Royall
    17. Meg McCleery
    18. Patricia M Osborne
    19. Romina van Maaren
    20. Sarah Wheatley
Congratulations one and all and many thanks to everybody that basically, scared me so much that I have resorted to sitting up all night with a blunderbuss on my lap and a glass of brandy for my nerves. Probably.
Well, I have to admit I have been a bit all over the place as far as the Challenges go, but fully intend to finish on a high, so here we have the first of two that will cover May and June 2021. One thing I loved in 2020 (and wasn’t that a short list?) was that it all got a bit spooky later on, with ‘The House in the Forest’ anthology and Sarah Wragg’s brilliant collection, ‘Ghost Walk’. This Autumn then, I quite fancy adding to the selection from Hedgehog, and so I intend that we publish ‘Shadows and Tall Trees’ an anthology of spooktastic poems that see us looking over our shoulders as we wander through a dimly lit forest…or whatever you choose it to be about.
The Challenge:
  1. Write a Poem that is Spooky or Shocking, Scary or Full of Surprises
  2. Email your poem in a single document to entry to: COMPETITION@HEDGEHOGPRESS.CO.UK
  3. Obviously this is only open to members of the Cult of the Spiny Hog
  4. Deadline: 30th June 2021
The Prize:
  1. We will publish ‘Shadows and Tall Trees’ a Spooky Scary anthology of poems, in time for Halloween
  2. All those included will of course receive oodles of copies
  3. Cult members will obviously receive copies too
Have fun!      

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