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Anna Woodford’s adventures in creative writing
Anna wins the Wigtown Poetry Prize
We found this poem by Anna Woodford particularly touching, uplifting, and defiantly optimistic. It’s near the end of the anthology: “Since all of this and the sun, I have fallen / in love with you again … Now I know I will be with you / and our son at the end of the world – here / in our own back yard with its little shout of colour.” (‘2020’). Anna’s poem 2020 is included in Beyond the Storm
Anna has two poems in the current issue of Poetry Wales
Anna’s essay Stretched Professors and Endless Corridors – The Campus Poem is in this quarter’s edition of The Poetry Review
Anna has two poems in the current issue of Stand magazine
Anna has a poem in the Emma Press Anthology of Gothic Verse
Anna is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University
Anna has a poem in the upcoming anthology about running The Result is What You See Today (Smith Doorstop, 2019)
Anna has two new poems upcoming in Stand magazine
Go North East’s Q3 service features 7 of Anna’s poems on its outside livery – the poems encourage people to be kinder to their fellow passengers. They are based on research are all to do with well-being and getting out from Newcastle University.
Anna’s poem (T)here iv from her book Changing Room featured on a recent episode of Radio 3’s Words and Music
Kate Sweeney’s animation of Anna’s poem ‘Work‘ from her book Changing Room is shortlisted for the International Zebra Film Festival 2018.
Anna’s new book Changing Room (Salt, 2018) is out now and available to buy online from Salt, Waterstones, Amazon or instore at Waterstones and Blackwells in the North East and the BALTIC Gallery, Gateshead.
Anna’s poems are now on 100 Go North East buses in 2018, including Quaylink services on Newcastle’s Quayside, as part of the Great Exhibition of the North!
Anna has a poem in Route magazine’s LOCO-MOTION issue published in collaboration with York’s National Railway Museum (NRM) and the University of Sheffield.
Anna is running free ‘Exploring Poetry’ workshops in libraries throughout the North from March-June 2018 as part of New Writing North’s Read Regional programme. The workshops will be followed by readings from the poets Polly Atkin and Antony Dunn.
Anna has two poems in the current issue of Stand magazine.
Anna wins second prize in the Ledbury Poetry Competition.
Anna has three new poems in the current issue of the North magazine.
Article on the Poetry in Motion exhibition at Newcastle City Library2017.
Anna has been awarded a major award from The Society of Authors’ Authors Foundation towards the development of her next poetry collection.
Update on Poetry in Motion at The Knowledge Exchange blog.
Anna has poetry upcoming in The Anthology of Aunts (Emma Press).
Anna’s poems are featured on buses in York.