Organiser
CRISTINA NEWTON
Spanish-born Cristina (Navazo-Eguía) Newton first published two full-length collections -La Frontera and Rutas de Largo Recorrido- in her native language, with work also included in several anthologies. She now lives in Britain, where her poems have appeared in journals and been shortlisted or have run up at Bridport, Strokestown, Gregory O’Donoghue, Aesthetica and Nottingham. She won the Poetry London Competition 2011 with her poem “Edison Peña Runs the Six Miles”. She organises the Battered Moons Poetry Competition, now in its third year, supported by the Swindon Festival of Literature and Artswords. She is also involved in adult education, workshops and performances of poetry and flamenco hondo singing. She holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Valladolid and has worked as a lecturer in Spain and UK. During 2011, she was part of the Travellers Without Baggage project, a tribute to Valerie Clarke.
LINKS
POETRY LONDON COMPETITION 2011
http://www.poetrylondon.co.uk/news/2011
Judge’s Report
http://www.poetrylondon.co.uk/magazines/70/poem/judge-s-report-1
SOUHWARD journal-Gregory O’Donoghue Prize 200
http://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/17A/Poetry/newton_cristina.html
http://www.munsterlit.ie/News%20Archive.html
Bridport Prize 2009- Short List
http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/poetrywinners2009.htm
http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/winners2009.htm
Domestic Cherry
http://www.slideshare.net/debeljackitatjana/debeljackitatjana
Cheltenham Poetry Festival –Tribute to Valerie Clarke with Mimi Khalvati
http://cheltenham.likal.com/content/mimi-khalvati-cristina-newton-tribute-valerie-clark-cheltenham-poetry-festival-2011
Travellers Without Baggage, Bath Poetry Cafè- November 2011
http://travellerspoets.blogspot.com/#!/p/cristina-newton.html
http://travellerswithoutbaggage.blogspot.com/
Photos of Gypsy Tangos by Jill Carter -Out of the Ordinary.
With Matt Holland at the Swindon Festival of Literature 2010.
What can the Wiltshire countryside do to a poet? Answers should not contain the word "stubble".
Organising Assistant
HILDA SHEEHAN
Biography
My poems have appeared on the BBC Website, The Rialto, National Poetry Society Website, The New Writer and South magazines. I have performed poetry at Bath Literature Festival, Bath Poetry Café and Corsham Poetry Festival and at other poetry events in the South West region. I am the founder and organiser of Domestic Cherry,BlueGate Poets and assistant to Swindon Artswords Literature Development Worker. I facilitate workshops in prisons, councils and schools and MC Swindon’s popular Open Mic night at the Arts Centre in Old Town.
http://hildasheehanpoetry.blogspot.com/
http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/CITN/citn%2086.htm
