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Welcome to SLQ
October 2009. This issue approximates what I
envision the magazine to be. Time however was my smooth
enemy. Either I ran out of time, or time ran out on me, but
I suddenly realised there was not enough of that stuff to
tidy up the quarter's interview, and I only managed to read
a handful of the poetry submissions. I apologise to
everyone who submitted work that I have not got back to
within the 8-week cycle. Over the next 2 to 3 weeks, I shall
be looking at all submissions received before 30th of
September and let the authors know whether or not we will
use them.
Congratulations to Akinlabi Peter who
has won the First Prize in the Sentinel Literary Quarterly
Poetry Competition (October 2009). Writing about
Peter's poem "Moving", Bobby Parker, the competition judge
says 'The opening
lines took me by the hand and by the end of the poem I had
been somewhere and come back better for it. There is a
command of line and craft in ‘’Moving’’ that doesn’t get in
the way, that doesn’t drown out the sound of a heart
beating.' The Second Prize has been won by Katie
Metcalfe - a creative writing student, with her poem
"Pumpkin Seeds". Now, would you believe this? Mandy Pannett
won the Third Prize. This is the second quarter back to back
that Mandy Pannett has won the Third Prize in our poetry
competitions. This time she won with "Through Dust". Last
quarter, she won with "The God of Allotments." Mandy Pannett
is a creative writing tutor in West Sussex. It is fantastic
to see a Creative Writing teacher achieving well in the
craft herself, so she is not like a driving instructor who
cannot drive. In a New Hope International review of
Pannett's Bee Purple, Steve Anderson is full of
praise; "These
poems are solid and sparse, well constructed, perfectly
balanced and technically superb. Mandy Pannett knows the
voice of her muse well. Everything is mature and totally
confident." I am pleased that she is giving our competitions
the benefit of her craft. The poems themselves instruct on
how to write them.
We have also now set up an SLQ blog.
Would you like to write for our blog? Let me know and we
could work it out so that in between the publications, we
can have engaging creative discourses here.
Enjoy this issue and make it a duty to
read this magazine every quarter. We will appreciate any
feedbacks that will move the magazine forward.
God bless you.
Nnorom Azuonye
Editor
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