My little writing woo hoo!
it's not often at the moment that i feel like i've achieved something worthwhile. But i've started sharing some of my poetry, and have found that i actually have some talent!
i've shared a few poems in here in the past with some news about being published, but i thought i'd post it all in one place!!
firstly, i've had THREE poems published in three seperate poetry collections this year. i initially submitted one poem, TORN, to a poetry website. they had a competition where, if you got people to vote for your poem, you could win a small prize (and i'm talking ipod shuffle here, so really small prize!), but i figured i'd get it out there and see how i went. well, it never made it to that competition as the officials decided to include it in a book instead - woo hoo!
so, lots of emails from them, and then out of the blue, they ask me to submit another poem, for another book, based on my previous work. it was for a book of the best poems and poets of 2007 as submitted to the international society of poetry. noice! so off i goes to submit another one
after a couple of months, i decided to submit another one for ipod - and again, it doesn't make it, ends up in a book instead! (i gave up on the ipod and went and got a mobile with music player in it!!)
anyhow, onto my woo hoo bit!!
after submitting that first poem, i was invited to become a member of the International Society of Poets, received an "Editor's Choise Award" (ranked in top 10% of poems submitted on the site in previous 12 months), invited to become a Poet Fellow of Noble House, and a few months ago, was invited to attend a conference in Vegas to present a poem and potentially win $20k plus a publishing contract. i couldn't go (money is usually an issue isn't it?), so thought that was it. but it wasn't. i couldn't be in the comp for the dollars if i wasn't there (fair enough), but i could still submit a poem for reading. i figured i'd send one in, and last week, i received a medallion and crystal trophy for achievements in poetry! woo hoo!!
all of this in six months!
DH is now on my case to compile all my writing into a book and publish it myself. it's pretty exxy, and i know it would be for us alone, but i think i will do it now. might do a photo book with stuff from our garden and ccombine my poems with images from the garden
thanks for reading!
BG
