2008
February 2008
Just released, slightly later than anticipated, the results of The Indigo Dreams Poetry Awards 2007. Eileen had a total of three poems Highly Commended in this years competition- Yellow, Nat's Cafe and Sacred to Lovers. Sole adjudicator for the competition was Geoff Stevens, well known poet and editor of Purple Patch Poetry Magazine one of the longest running poetry magazines in the country having been founded in 1976.
This is what he had to say...
high standard of entries, 12 poems stood out from the rest...At 6, 5, and 4, I placed three very good poems that appear to be by the same person (I was not given poet's names).Yellow is a vivid description of Camden Market characters, Nat's Cafe an old fashioned establishment with Dusty Springfield look-alikes, and Sacred To Lovers a neat piece about a visit to Glasgow.
Look out for more of Eileen's poems in small press magazines throughout 2008.
2007
To end 2007 or is it to begin 2008, one of Eileen's poems, Loss, taken from her collection Stroking The Air, appeared in the January 2008 edition of Writer's Forum magazine, as part of Sarah Willans poetry workshop 'How free is free verse?' The poem was used as an example of how to use line breaks skilfully...unfortunately due to copyright I cannot reproduce the article but here is a link to purchase the magazine - Writer's Forum.
Although the site has not been updated regularly this year, Eileen would like to reassure all readers that the poetry continues and watch this space for some exciting news in 2008. Meanwhile Eileen has continued to be published in poetry magazines, anthologies and internet websites, she recently won the Reader’s vote for best poem in Reach poetry magazine, for a sonnet entitled Lizard Dreams.
She was Highly Commended in The Hastings International Poetry Competition 2007 for the poem When the Moon Turns, she was placed 2nd in The Dawntreader Poetry Awards 2007 for the poem The Dream Path and she recently won a library poetry competition for her poem Goodbyes and was invited to read the winning poem at a very successful presentation evening where 48 people attended.
2006
August
In 2006 the work of Eileen Carney Hulme has been published in various small press poetry magazines, anthologies and internet poetry websites.
Her work has been Highly Commended in several poetry competitions, the most recent of these, being The Partners 21st Poetry Competition where she had two poems Highly Commended and also the City of Derby Short Story and Poetry Competition.
In June Eileen was invited back to take part once again in The Nairn Book and Arts Festival. She took to the stage with three other writers in front of a full house at The Little Theatre in Nairn.
This month a review of Eileen’s book Stroking The Air appeared in the substantial annual review section of Krax magazine…
‘A cheap price for a beautiful book of stark, sparse and direct poems. Students will pick up on Eileen’s work and clamour for more books. Much like Richard Brautigan’s mid-period poems, full of angst and unrequited loves and yet having that atmosphere of a tender moment that made it all worthwhile. As with Mr B. when you get to the end you’ll just want to go back and read it all again. The powerful draw of the writing makes you need to ‘be there’. For anyone whose favourite writer has deceased, retired or just "gone off"‘ Eileen is your salvation for the future. Superb!’
September
A busy month. Eileen attended and read six poems at the Poetry Scotland event held in Callander. Around 40 poets read and each, in their own way, brought something unique and special to the weekend. To find out a little more about this event please go here.
Eileen attended a local weekend seminar with talks and workshops to suit all tastes. More than sixty delegates attended on each day and Eileen took part in the poetry workshop led by award-winning poet Linda France.
The Indigo Dreams Press Poetry Awards 2006.
Results from the competition were announced to include three winning poems and three Honourable Mentions. Eileen received an Honourable Mention for the poem ‘Seven’ and Dublin poet Nessa O’Mahony who judged the competition stated…
“…what a hard decision, in the end it came down to five or six. With the sheer quality, I must name three close contenders and give Honourable Mentions to ...”
The high quality lovingly produced Poetry Cornwall poetry magazine arrived containing Eileen’s poem Sloop.
November
Eileen's poem 'Perception' was Highly Commended in this year's Hastings International Poetry Competition. More information can be found here.
December
As 2006 draws to a close Eileen has had another success. This time in The 5th Coffee House Poetry Competition when her poem ‘The Bigger Picture’ was selected as one of the seven runners up. This is what judge and editor Dr Jan Fortune-Wood, who is also now the new editor of Envoi poetry magazine, had to say… ‘We had nearly 500 poems entered this year and the strongest field ever to choose from. The long list was very long indeed, making the winners and runners up particularly difficult to select…the runners up all submitted very strong poems.’
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