Iota magazine changed hands across the summer and is about to be relaunched with a bumper issue 83/84. Overall editor is Nigel McLoughlin, (his fourth collection is Dissonances which I mentioned here before).
Iota are also launching a major poetry competition with Tim Turnbull as judge
The details are as follows:
Closing date is 30th November 2009
1st Prize £2000
2nd Prize £1000
3rd Prize £500
+ ten supplementary prizes.
Now, doesn't that sound pretty cool? Go and visit Iota's new website, and for goodness sake take out a subscription: I reckon it'll be well worth it!
I believe that 'Iota' grew out of David Holliday's 'Scrip' magazine, to which I had the temerity to submit some truly frightful stuff at the age of 16. DH was very gentle in his rebuttal. So all power to the new 'Iota'!
ReplyDeleteI think you're right there, Dick, but should you really be telling us that your early stuff was frightful... ;) No more frightful than mine was, I'll bet!
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ReplyDeleteYikes! those are big money prizes -with a suitably far-away deadline too! : )
A good recommendation Barbara. I will follow it up.
ReplyDeleteYes, Colin & Liz, both the journal and the competition sound very exciting: definitely both for the VIP list of things I must do, which is getting longer and longer with each passing day!
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