We are honoured to announce the shortlist for Wales Poetry Award 2019. Download and read the winning poems on our website.
Category: Poetry Wales Award
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Writing prompt #12
Culture, dirt, trees, seas, people, legends, folklore, walking, beaches, trains, valleys, smoke, glass, bread, cawl, half-and-half, music, dance, anthems, art, words, language, croeso, home, ysgol, work, homeless, pride, poetry, land. For our last writing prompt, write about Wales.
Writing prompt #11
Brave vulnerability. Take it to the grave. Change, adapt. Remain true. How do you define strength?
Writing prompt #10
Bring out your ekphrastic impulses, extrapolate the thousand hidden words, cook them until they reduce by half. Write a picture.
Writing prompt #9
Create your own poetic form.
Writing prompt #8
And there in your periphery, a family dressed in the last century, huddled in one room telling stories.
Writing prompt #6
Poetry Wales will be posting weekly/fortnightly prompts for its new competition Wales Poetry Award. Prompts are not mandatory nor required for submission, but intended as inspiration for new writing. Wales Poetry Award is open to international contemporary poetry and closes for submissions 28 November 2019. Click for more information. Writing prompt #6: Write about change Another decade…
Writing prompt #5
Write about the in-between