On my last post a commenter asked how I manage to win so many competitions.
I replied that you have to enter to win, which is a bit of a disappointment. I mean that's kind of obvious, isn't it? Still, people often overlook it. How can I be jealous of people for getting published in this magazine and that when I haven't even submitted? I can't. Not reasonably anyway.
That said, this is my blog. So obviously everything is a bit one-sided and biased. For example, let's see how many times I've posted about not winning/placing in a competition....
Not once.
(small margin of error here - I might possibly have posted once or twice)
So this post is about all the competitions I haven't won (kind of a difficult feat considering I like to block out these rejections of my work, but I'll work from what I do remember).
Firstly: Foyle Young Poets Competition. I entered in 2010 and 2011 and I did not receive a thing - not even a special mention. Then there's my story Wizened, which I really like. I entered a fantasy writing contest with it and got...nothing. Then a special secondary-schools story competition in the Clare Champion with the same story. Once again, nothing.
Those are the reasons I then decided to focus on my poetry. Even so, I didn't get a thing in Cuisle this year. You can submit up to three poems and I submitted three. None on par with Creation and Evolution I guess.
That's all I can remember off-hand that I have entered but haven't won. Like I said, my mind blocks out losing.
P.S. Lovely bit of graffiti, that, isn't it? These pictures were part of the final result of a photography course we took in school.
1 comment:
I think it's a fantastic quality of being that your mind blocks out losing! I have had a tendency to hold very tight to the things that have happened in life that might be considered losing, but now that I've hit my forties (had to whisper that) I'm learning to let all that go! Em x
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