Exciting news for our PhD poet Kathy D’Arcy – http://www.kathydarcy.com/ – she’s been longlisted for the prestigious Ivan Juritz Prize (http://www.ivanjuritzprize.co.uk ) hosted by the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London and Scotland’s International Artist Residency Centre at Cove Park.

Postgraduate students from traditional academic disciplines and creative courses throughout Europe were invited to submit works for the prize in any artistic medium that “plays with form” or makes the audience think, feel and question.  Kathy’s entry, Killing the Golden Bear, will be considered alongside textual submissions from students at Cambridge, UEA, Liverpool and York.

Winners receive £1000 and spend the first two weeks of September at Cove Park, engaging in a residency and showcase. All shortlisted works are given a public performance at the prize-giving and are written up in the journal Textual Practice. http://www.tandfonline.com

The prize will be judged by an impressive line-up of names in the literature, visual and performing arts – Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Cusk, Dexter Dalwood, Julian Forrester, Jeremy Harding, Deborah Levy, Stephen Romer, Fiona Shaw and Ryan Wigglesworth.

Kathy has published two poetry collections – Encounter (Lapwing 2010) and The Wild Pupil (Bradshaw 2012). In 2013 she was awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary, and in 2014 an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Award to support the future development of her work.