Margaret Adkins
Creative Writing Portfolio
Publications & Competitions
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Pamphlet:
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2019 Mingled Space V. Press
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Competitions:
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2022 - Short listed in the Candlestick Press
'Christmas Stories' poetry competition
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2018 - Inaugural winner of the
V. Press Prize for Poetry at University of Worcester
(Debut pamphlet: Mingled Space 2019)
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2018 - Second Prize (and further poem highly commended)
Christabel Hopesmith NHS 70 Poetry Competition
Judges: Wendy Cope and Lachlan McKinnon.
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2017 - Commended in the
Welshpool Poetry Competition
Judge: James Sheard.
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Anthologised Poems:
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'Back to Baking' & 'Yes! And then'
A Tale of Two Cities: Worcester UK & USA Call & Response Anthology
Black Pear Press (2022)
'The Return'
The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press (2022)
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'Your Quarrel'
These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS
Fair Acre Press (2020)
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'First Last Offices'
These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS
Fair Acre Press (2020)
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'Home'
Home on the Move: Two Poems Go On a Journey
Parthian (2019)
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'You Never Forget Your First Patients | Hassan' in
Body and Soul: Poems to Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the NHS.
Whitelight Press (2018)
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'End of a Night Shift on a Nightingale Ward'
Body and Soul: Poems to Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the NHS
Whitelight Press (2018)
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'Duddeston Viaduct 1930'
This Is Not Your Final Form: Poems about Birmingham
Launched at the inaugural Verve poetry Festival.
The Emma Press (2017)
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'Prescribing the Pungent Root'
The Physic Garden: Poems Inspired by Healing Plants
Launched at Ledbury Poetry Festival 2017. Palewell Press (2017)
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Poems in Poetry Magazines:
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Vanishing Point (2023) Issue 8
I become a wardrobe (2021) Issue 23
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The Fairytale (2019) Issue 23
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Unlikely (2019) Issue 28
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Poems Online
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Eight Poems through Invitation (2023)
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I become a wardrobe (2022)
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Bleeding from More than a Thousand Javelins (2022)
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Panning (2021)
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To the Woman with Grey Hair (2021)
Tell Me Something - a Poetic Licence Podcast
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First Last Offices (2020) Featured Publication:
(These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS)
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There is a Bridge & Remembering (2018)
Contour - A Tale of Two Cities
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A Recipe for Apricot (Haired) Charlotte (Marsh) (2018)
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Listen! (2018)
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Imagining a Changed Space (2017)
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Essay:
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Memories, Moments & Mingled Space (2019)
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Article:
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We Love to Eat: Sand-Pie Pudding to Remind Us of Summer (2016)
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