About Cathy Bryant

Cathy Bryant

Cathy Bryant (www.cathybryant.co.uk) is an award-winning British writer. Her fiction and poetry have been published around the world and won many awards. Her latest collection of poetry is Look At All The Women.

Featured In

  • Best of Manchester Poets 1, 2 and 3
  • BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please
  • Popshot
  • Rialto website
  • Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
  • St*rline
  • Heart Shoots
  • … and many more!

Cathy says: I only started submitting my poems and stories to prove to my best friend, who kept nagging me to get them published, that no one would accept them… I was delighted to be wrong! In 2009 I was runner up in the Woman & Home Fiction Prize, in 2010 I won the Marple Humorous Poetry Prize and I’m now a regular on Manchester’s lively Spoken Word circuit. In 2012 I won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Prize, the Sampad ‘Inspired by Tagore’ Contest, the Malahat Review Monostich Contest and the Swanezine Poetry Contest, and blogged for the Huffington Post. In 2013 I won the M.R. Jordan Short Fiction Prize, the Plenitude ‘Twiction’ Contest and a Creative Futures Literary Gold Award. My work has been published all over the world in such publications as Popshot, Third Wednesday, Cha, Starline and Prole. I co-edited the anthologies Best of Manchester Poets vols. 1, 2 and 3 and my collection, ‘Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature’ was published recently. I’m currently writing a book called ‘How to Win Writing Competitions (and make money doing so) and yes, I have bought my best friend a drink or two. See more at www.cathybryant.co.uk

Looking for a critique or help with your work? 

Regretfully I’m unable to help with critiques or any other kind of feedback on your work. I wish that I could, but I simply don’t have the time to do it unpaid. Your best bet is to go to your local writers group, or find one online, if you can’t afford a professional critique. An awful lot of the advice I would give is in my book ‘How to Win Writing Competitions – and make money‘, if you want to sharpen up your writing and make it more likely to do well. Good luck!

5 Comments

  1. I’ve been following your column month after month and only see your subheadings now. I see how busy you are yet you make time for helping the general ‘public’ . I so wanted to send my congratulations when your play was staged. God bless the work of your hands.

    • Thank you so much, Natisha! I’m afraid your comment didn’t come through to me as it should have done, so I apologise for the delay in replying. Loads of people helped me when I was starting out, so I wanted to pay it forward and help other writers. Thank you again for your kind remarks. It’s mch appreciated! Cathy xxx

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