Good News
Sometimes, to borrow from Kate Atkinson’s novel of the same name, the only question seems to be: “When Will There Be Good News?”
But then one day, the good news comes.
And there’s been a little rush of it lately amongst my friends.
Victoria Broome, whose poetry manuscript, The Big Red Engine, was shortlisted for the prestigious Kathleen Grattan Award, found out that she was one of the two runners up—and that Otago University Press are considering The Big Red Engine for publication. And believe me, all my fingers are crossed for the happiest of outcomes!
I featured Victoria’s poem The Foreign Office, from Flap: The Chook Book 2 as my Tuesday poem selection on November 9.
The Kathleen Grattan Award was won by Jennifer Compton for This City. One of Jennifer’s poems, The First Drummer Boy of Xmas featured as the Tuesday Poem on Helen Heath’s blog this week. And Tim Jones featured her poem, Inheritance, last week.
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Poet and editor Siobhan Harvey, has just learned that her poem Tooth, which was published in the American magazine, Asheville Poetry Review this year has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. The award honours the best of poetry and fiction published in small presses in the US during the year. Great news—and again with the fingers crossed!
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A US friend, Beth Anne Miller’s debut novel Into the Scottish Mists is being released by The Wild Rose Press on February 4 next year—not many sleeps now—and although you can find Beth at http://www.facebook.com/bethannemiller17 she has also been a guest on Laura Treacy Bentley’s blog–with the Into the Scottish Mists cover featured. Beth Anne’s also going to be my guest on the Supernatural Underground on 1 February, so look out for that post!
Thanks so much for the shoutout, Helen! Can’t wait to hang out on your blog!
-Beth Anne Miller
Great to have you here, Beth—and both here again and on the Supernatural Underground in future. I am very much looking forward to Into the Scottish Mist! 🙂
I’ll be sure and watch for Supernatural Underground in February.
I enjoyed browsing your site and reading your poems. Now I’m going to have to check out your novels. Nothing like a novelist and a poet =)
Thanks for posting a link to my feature with Beth. She was great fun!
I am sure that the 1 February guest post on the Supernatural Underground will be a lot of fun, too–and thanks for dropping by!