Carole Baldock

5 days ago | orbisjournal.com | Carole Baldock

Don’t forget to enter Wirral Poetry Festival’s 15th Open Poetry Competition – deadline for entries 30th May. Poems on any subject, of not more than 40 lines, in English,Open prizes adjudicated by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura;  Wirral Prizes by Pauline Rowe.Open prizes: 1st prize £250, 4 £25 runner-up prizes.

5 days ago | orbisjournal.com | Carole Baldock

May 7The Wigtown Poetry PrizesOnline entry only; over 16sWigtown International Prize: £1500; Runner-up: £200. Fee: £10Wigtown Scots Prize: £500; Runner-up: £200. Fee: £8 Wigtown Scottish Gaelic Prize: £500; Runner-up: £200. Fee: £8Dumfries & Galloway Fresh Voice Award. Fee: £10Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize: 30 copies of a pamphlet of your work. Fee: £25Festival: September 6 – 5 October 5Judges: Lesley Benzie; Elissa Hunter-Dorans; Hugh McMillan; Tom Powwww.wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competition

2 weeks ago | orbisjournal.com | Carole Baldock

in Kudos Featured Competitions | FEDERATION OF WRITERS SCOTLANDVERNAL EQUINOX COMPETITION 2025Five categories, poetry (any number of poems, no more than 40 lines each),short stories (any number, between 501 and 2000 words each),flash fiction/mini-story (any number, up to 500 words), Scottish Gaelic and Scots(poetry, line limit as above). Prizes in each category: 1st prize £100, 2nd prize £25, 3rd prize £10Brian Whittingham Memorial Prize £50. Open entry.

1 month ago | northwestend.com | Carole Baldock

We embark on this evening with a little bit of a mystery of our own: do we have press tickets? Fortunately, we did, although not a press night. But no programme so that’s where I could slip up, getting the characters’ names wrong; just have to colour them in. For that matter, when is a review not a review? When a play is not a play. As this hilarious show is based on improvisation, it’ll be totally different every time, so we’ll just try and give you a taste of it. And for it.

1 month ago | northwestend.com | Carole Baldock

Yes of course, this play comes with a trigger warning, pointing out that it’s the original 1981 script. No surprises there – except that it is still as shocking today as it was over 40 years ago, although the emphasis is more on the bawdy humour than the disturbing issues it addresses. Even more shocking, for all the audience gasped at the arrant sexism, things haven’t changed that much. Improved seems far too much to hope for.