A Writer’s Road: On Competition

by | Nov 27, 2019 | Uncategorised

For years, I have been trying to find a way to feel good about competition. Even on the few occasions I have won, be it money or prestige, the high of winning never lasts as long as the low of losing. But beyond that, I have never been able to reconcile the undeniable...
The T S Eliot Prize

The T S Eliot Prize

by | Jan 14, 2014 | poetry, Writing

I’m not a great fan of competitions, to be honest. Although everyone says they know that the results are necessarily subjective, people do still take them as gospel. X won such-and-such a prize and so it must be the best and so that’s the one I’ll...