Name Angela Readman | Role Poet | |
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Books Colours/Colors, Hard Core, Newcastle Stories | ||
Angela Readman Wins 2013 Costa Short Story Award
Angela Readman (born 1973 in Middlesbrough) is an English poet and short story writer.
Contents
- Angela Readman Wins 2013 Costa Short Story Award
- after the robins a poem by angela readman read by g rard rudolf
- Early years
- Awards
- Work
- Poetry
- Anthologies
- Descriptions of work
- References
after the robins a poem by angela readman read by g rard rudolf
Early years
Readman grew up in Middlesbrough, following university in Manchester she relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne to complete a film studies MA. She completed a masters in creative writing at the University of Northumbria in 2000, and won a Waterstones prize for her distinctive poetry and prose
Awards
Angela Readman won the International Rubery Book Award in 2015 for her book of short stories, 'Don't Try This at Home'. Her story 'The Keeper of the Jackalopes' won the Costa Short Story Award (2013) and her story 'Don't Try This At Home' was shortlisted for the same competition the previous year. In 2013, Readman won first prize in the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition, judged by Kathleen Jamie. She won the National Flash Fiction Contest, and the Essex Poetry Prize in 2012 and was placed second in the first Short Story Competition in 2011. She has won New Writing North awards, and won the Ragged Raven longer poems competition [1]. In 2005 she won The Biscuit Poetry competition and publication of a collection Sex with Elvis.
Work
Readman has published three full length collections of poetry (of 60 pages or more) and several shorter collections of work (including the bi-lingual Hard Core, with Finnish poet Tapani Kinnunen - translated into Finnish.) She was involved with The Flesh of the Bear Poetry exchange in 2004, which was a collaboration of Finnish poets and poets from the North East of England, including Bob Beagrie, Andy Willoughby, Esa Hirvonen, and Kalle Niinikangas.
In 2005 she edited Newcastle Stories (for Comma Press) and accepted a post teaching creative writing at the University of Northumbria.
Her work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including London Magazine, Staple, Ambit and Mslexia.
On December 31, 2007, Frieda Hughes printed the poem Housewife from the Strip collection in her regular Times newspaper column
Poetry
Anthologies
Descriptions of work
"Readman casts her eye on ordinary life with a sharp knife. This is witty, astute poetry of the inventive kind and feels important, as all good poetry should… Poetry with an edge" Julia Darling
"Angela Readman’s work is a carefully stitched embroidery of the familiar and the often overlooked or taken for granted- she makes pictures that stay in your mind long after the poem has been read. Sharply observant, dry, savage and wholly authentic." Joolz Denby