2010 Winners

PROFILES OF BATTERED MOONS WINNERS and ASSOCIATES

WINNERS

BOOTH, Janice

I’ve been involved in lecturing and practising Chinese medicine for the last 22 years and its underlying philosophy is often a prompt to my creativity. I also draw on family memories of growing up in East Anglia, trying painstakingly to capture those evasive memories and moments in time and thereby make them endure! And whilst I like to make harmony and order, the words I choose often touch the unruliness of emotion, the impossibility of stemming the flow of time.
Becoming a member of the Swindon Bluegate poetry group has proved an invaluable stimulus and support to my writing over the last 12 months.



MARSIGLIA, Michelle


MUIRHEAD, Jonathan R.
Jonathan Muirhead Battered Moons Biography

Jonathan has been writing short stories and poetry since he was 13. He won 2nd prize in the 1993 Midlothian Young Writers Short Story Competition and, since then, has had many short stories and poems published. Most recently, his short story 'Pictures Of You' was published in Edinburgh's Drey Magazine (Red Squirrel Press 2011). Jonathan also reviews CDs for www.isthismusic.com, for which he has received much praise (being frequently quoted on artist press releases) and from which he has built up a wide network of PR contacts. Poetry is generally set off by something he's read in the paper, or a comment someone makes, such as conversations with friends or family. Jonathan finds writing a way of saying all the things he cannot say out loud. Jonathan is currently working on his first poetry and short story collections and can be contacted for performances and criticism at jonathan.r.muirhead@gmail.com



HARRISON, Emily
Emily Harrison won first prize for her poem "Love Has No Larynx" at the Tenth Christopher Tower Poetry Prize in 2010. The judges were Stephen Romer, Michael Schmidt and Peter McDonald.
The competition's theme was 'Promises' and it received over 1000 entrants, from every part of the UK. Seventeen year-old Emily received the £3,000 award at a lunchtime reception, as part of The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, in Christ Church.



O'NEILL, Heather



SHARP, Jill (BM 2010)

As well as being a Battered Moons winner, Jill recently won the SSAFA /Kingston University Press competition for writing about war and service, and has also been a winner of the Manchester Cathedral poetry prize. Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines: South, Crazy about Pipework, 14, IMPpress, and anthologies: Images of Women(Arrowhead), Pique (Templar), The world is made of glass (Ragged Raven), Domestic Cherry(Snove Books). A small pamphlet of her poems, published by BlueGate Books, appeared last year.

Jill is an associate lecturer with the Open University and runs a thriving writing group. She has been a regular reviewer for the online British Theatre Guide and her book Written in Stone was published by English Heritage.


VAN WAVEREN, Astrid