Competition time! Win a copy of our new full-colour anthology: Contourlines

Contourlines is a unique anthology of new responses to landscape by some of our leading contemporary poets.

Landscape has been a prime subject of poetry and the visual arts for millennia. The way we see the world around us has been crucially shaped by the way it has been represented in words and images. For this [...]

Are you a winner? Check out the comments on our competitions

Entering our competitions? Remember to check back on the comments to the competition after the deadline to see if you’ve won!

Winners of the Manuel Muñoz The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue competition are: Robert Burdock, Steve Dempsey, Jay Merill and Stephen Pain.

Winners of our Eleanor Rees Eliza and the Bear competition are: Jenny Hope, Michelle [...]

Competition time! Win a copy of Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story, edited by Vanessa Gebbie

We’ve five free copies of Vanessa Gebbie’s new textbook Short Circuit to give away.

Short Circuit is the first textbook written by prize-winning writers for students and more experienced practitioners of the short story. The 288 page guide brings together twenty-four specially-commissioned essays from well-published short story writers who are also prize winners of the toughest [...]

Competition time! Win a copy of Eleanor Rees’s new collection “Eliza and the Bear”

We’ve five free copies of Eleanor Rees’s new poetry collection Eliza and the Bear to give away.

Eleanor Rees’s first collection, Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection she continues to play the role of mythologiser and [...]

Competition time! Win a copy of Manuel Muñoz’s “The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue”

We’ve five free copies of Manuel Muñoz’s “The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue” to give away.

Manuel Muñoz’s dazzling second collection finds the author returning, once again, to the small towns of California’s Central Valley. Set in a neighborhood with characters whose lives often intersect with each other, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue offers [...]