Awards and Competitions                                                  Diana Mitchener

Winner of Chanctonbury Cup (West Sussex) Slipstream Competition 2013, 2021, 2023

1^st Prize Poetry Slam: Grand Slammer of the Wear Biscuit Competition 2004

1^st Prize Muse and Music Poetry Competition 2003

2^nd Prize Hiawatha’s Wedding Competition 2004

2nd Prize Cannon Poets Tanka Competition 2005

2nd Prize Peace Pole Competition, West Sussex County Times, 2011

1 poem in Binsted and South Downs Anthology 2019

3 poems in Binsted Anthology 2017

I poem in ‘Poems for a Liminal Age’ (SPM) Publications) 2015

2 poems in Sentinel Literary Quarterly Summer Issue, 2015

5 poems in ‘The Way we live Now’, (Ed Monica Jones), 2009

2 poems in Cruse Anthology: ‘Rowing Home’ 2008 

Quantum Leap 2014;  Roundyhouse, 2009;  

Cannon Poets ‘Sonnet or Not’  2005, 2006, 

Several other poems have been highly commended or commended in poetry competitions, 2008 – 2023.

Writing and Performance: Muse and Music Monologue Competitions

1^st Prize: ‘Talking about Death’ 2001. 1^st Prize: ‘The Kneeler’ 2002

 

Publications: Short Stories:

1^st Prize: ‘Piano Pieces’: mini-memoir Competition, Leaf books, 2010

‘Home again, Kathleen’ in Biscuit Anthology, 2004

‘Vide Grenier’ in French Literary Review, Issue No 11, 2009

Novella:

‘Holding the Line‘

Short-listed for Novel Approach Competition, 2002

Published by Leaf Books, 2011