Human Cell Atlas challenge winners are announced
The Poetry Society is delighted to announce the winners of the Human Cell Atlas challenge, run on The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network with Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, as part of a project called
One Cell at a Time explores the areas where art and science meet and is inspired by the work of the Human Cell Atlas – an international research initiative, which is creating a map of all the cell types in the human body.
Young people worldwide aged 25 and younger were challenged to write poems that played with the language and sounds of the Human Cell Atlas’s ground-breaking research.
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The three winners of the James Berry Poetry Prize will each win £1,000, receive year-long mentoring and their debut book length collection will be published by Bloodaxe Books. The winning poets will be invited to take part in a James Berry Poetry Prize reading as part of the NCLA events series.
Devised by Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo with inclusivity specialist Dr Nathalie Teitler, the prize is the first national poetry prize to include both mentoring and book publication. It is named in honour of James Berry, OBE (1927-2017), one of the first black writers in Britain to receive wider recognition. He emigrated from Jamaica in 1948, and took a job with British Telecom, where he spent much of his working life until he was able to support himself from his writing. He rose to prominence in 1981 when he won the National Poetry Competition.
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Hybrid 2021 Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival presents visual, literary arts Sat, 04/03/2021 - 1:00pm
Baron Wormser. (Photo courtesy University of Maine at Augusta)
“This past year has been challenging,” said the University of Maine in Augusta, in a news release. “We have been quarantining, masking, ‘pivoting,’ rising up, breaking down, and just trying to keep it together.”
To mark the events of this moment, the annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival will break out of its usual format, Friday, April 30, to celebrate the University of Maine at Augusta’s (UMA) 2020-2021 academic theme of “Outbreak,” a topic inclusive of viral outbreaks, outbreaks of social justice, and outbreaks of creativity.
Gretchen Schrafft
Intern Cristina Farfan ’21 interviews fiction writer Gretchen Schrafft ’08, who was an intern for
NER in 2007 while she was a student at Middlebury College, and then went on to be a staff reader for the magazine. At Middlebury, she completed a double major in English and American Literatures and Sociology-Anthropology. Discussing both
NER and her own writing, Schrafft gives an insight on her path from
NER intern to published fiction writer.
Cristina Farfan: Where are you now, both geographically and professionally?
Gretchen Schrafft: I currently live in Denver, where I’m in my third year of the PhD program in English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver. I came to the program to work on a novel, pursue research connected to that novel, and continue developing my skills as a teacher of creative writing and literature.