Slingink Scribbling Slam – Poetry Judge

I am extremely pleased to announce that our judge for the poetry rounds will be Mandy Pannett.

Mandy Pannett lives in West Sussex, UK, where she leads classes and workshops on creative writing. A teacher for many years, she has worked with all ages and abilities. She has won prizes and been placed in competitions and her poetry has been published in international journals and anthologies.

Recent work has been translated into German and Romanian as part of the Poetry tREnd translation project and she has also acted as selecting editor for ‘South’ and been a judge of national poetry competitions including the recent ‘Build Africa’ competition.

She has three poetry collections: Bee Purple, Frost Hollow (both Oversteps Books www.overstepsbooks.com ) and Allotments in the Orbital www.searlepublishing.com (Searle Publishing)

Her sequence ‘The Carver’s Mark’ was the special feature in the Poetry Kit online poetry journal ‘Translucent Words and further examples of her poetry can also be seen at www.poetrypf.co.uk