{"id":126,"date":"2016-10-13T13:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2023-12-12T20:58:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:58:44","slug":"competitions-prizes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/?page_id=126","title":{"rendered":"Competitions &#038; Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2002. 1st Prize, Amnesty International Competition, with &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/?page_id=128#wintercoat\">Winter Coat<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>2003\u00a0 2nd Prize, essex Poetry Competition, with <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">&#8216;Dark Matter&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2003. Winner Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition with \u2018Living on the Difference\u2019<\/p>\n<p>2005. First Prize, Ledbury Poetry Competition, with &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/?page_id=128#rosie\">Rosie<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>2006. First Prize, National Poetry Competition, with &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/?page_id=128#thethirdwife\">The Third Wife<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>2008. &#8216;The Third Wife&#8217; placed third in Poetry Society poll of all first prize winners of National Poetry Competition.<\/p>\n<p>2008. A folio of five poems short-listed for Manchester Poetry Prize.<\/p>\n<p>2011. Third Prize, Strokestown Competition, with &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/?page_id=128#mack\">Mack<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>2011. Third Prize, Larkin and East Riding Competition, with &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/?page_id=128#fromthecabinetofidioms\">From The Cabinet of Idioms<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>2012. Commended, Troubadour Competition, <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">&#8216;A Tale from the Town Maze&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2020. Shortlisted, Strokestown Competition with <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">&#8216;The pause&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2021. Commended, Troubadour Competition, with <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">&#8216;What we take with us and what we leave&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2021. Second runner up (Third Prize), Frogmore Prize, with <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">&#8216;The origamist&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2022. Commended, National Poetry Competition, <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">&#8216;My Uncle Ivan&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2023. First Prize Kent and Sussex Competition, <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">&#8216;Nonesuch&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2023. Highly commended Live Cannon Competition, <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">&#8216;How the wind will sing of us&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2002. 1st Prize, Amnesty International Competition, with &#8216;Winter Coat&#8216;. 2003\u00a0 2nd Prize, essex Poetry Competition, with &#8216;Dark Matter&#8217; 2003. Winner Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition with \u2018Living on the Difference\u2019 2005. First Prize, Ledbury Poetry Competition, with &#8216;Rosie&#8216;. 2006. First Prize, National Poetry Competition, with &#8216;The Third Wife&#8216;. 2008. &#8216;The Third Wife&#8217; placed third <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/?page_id=126\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-126","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7ZDQx-22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikebarlow.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}