How wonderful to be on the National Poetry Competition longlist alongside these outstanding poets!! 🙏 #nationalpoetrycompetition

Absolutely made my day to be on the Picture Book shortlist! Massive congratulations to all shortlisted (and longlisted) writers! Enjoy the celebrations and good luck 🍀 ❤️ 🎊

Delighted to be commended by Hannah Sullivan for the #MothPoetryPrize and to be in the company of these very fine poets !

So chuffed to have 2 stories on the PB longlist! Thank you to Stuart White Bonnier Books UK and all involved in the judging ! Congratulations and good luck to all longlisted authors 🎉👏🤞🍀

Wonderful opportunity to submit your poems for the Hippocrates Prize. I was honoured to have a poem placed 2nd in the ' open' category, 2022 . There are also categories for health professionals and young people. I know The Hippocrates Initiative can't wait to read your poems... 🤞 ❤️

Couldn't be more thrilled to be shortlisted for the Best Picture Book Text 2023, massive thanks to Searchlight Writing for Children Awards and huge congratulations to all shortlisted and longlisted writers 🙏👏🪶

So pleased to feature Rehomer's Prayer as January's Poem of the Month, first published by Valley Press. Di Slaney is an amazing poet who brings hope and a new life to wonky animals 🐑🐏🐐🪿manorfarmcharitabletrust.org

Missed tonight's Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu Christmas/Winter Anthology launch? You missed a real gift. One highlight for me was the poetry of Victoria Gatehouse. Sorry to have arrived too late for poems by Lou Mach and Mims Sully.

Oh, by the way, here's 'Menfolk'.
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A truly brilliant first launch of the Christmas-Winter anthology. Seamless, amazing, atmospheric poems by a whole host of writers from Wales, to Denmark, to the USA, to Denmark. Just wow!

🧵 A look back at some of the mentees I've had the pleasure of working with in 2023, starting with Victoria Gatehouse her recent timeline is a catalogue of great things inc poems in The North, advent perfection Spelt Magazine and Ginkgo/AONB success

Delighted that Victoria Gatehouse found another home for this poem, originally in Ten Poems for Winter from Candlestick Press. The Candlestick booklets make great alternatives to cards, and there are lots of seasonal ones on their website. candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-p…

A magical seasonal Poem of the Month Skircoat Green Directory by Rob Walton, also featured in candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten-p…

Day Six of the Spelt Advent Calendar and it is Victoria Gatehouse bringing us a beautiful winter scene from behind today’s door. Lovely stuff.

#adventcalendar #speltmagazine #nature #rural #winter #christmas

Such a joy to see the Spelt Magazine advent calendar again this year, a gem of a poem behind every door!

Beyond thrilled to be longlisted for Best Picture Book Text 2023 !!!Thank you Searchlight Writing for Children Awards and congrats to everyone who entered #kidlit #picturebook

Celebrating Christmas with our animal friends: poems about the special creatures who share and enrich our lives

Friday 1st December
7pm - 8.30pm via zoom
includes open mic

Come join me and some special guests in a fundraising poetry reading!

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Thrilled that my poem 'Return to Embleton Bay' was shortlisted for the Gingko/AONB prize and features in this wonderful new anthology #aonb #northumbria #naturepoetry #poetryschool

Massive thanks to The Toy for including my poem in the new Nature edition! Loving all these wonderful nature poems, stories and illustrations 🌻 #childrenspoetry #naturepoetry #kidlit

Some amazing poems, features and reviews in issue 69 of The North, proud to have two poems included. Undoubtedly one of my favourite poetry mags! The Poetry Business