{"id":11,"date":"2015-06-23T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compsandcalls.com\/wp\/?p=11"},"modified":"2016-04-25T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T08:53:19","slug":"about-cathy-bryant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/compsandcalls.com\/wp\/about-cathy-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"About Cathy Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--noadsense--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35\" class=\"wp-image-35 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/compsandcalls.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cathy-bryant-portrait.jpg?resize=201%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/compsandcalls.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cathy-bryant-portrait.jpg?resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/compsandcalls.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cathy-bryant-portrait.jpg?resize=685%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 685w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/compsandcalls.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cathy-bryant-portrait.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/compsandcalls.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/cathy-bryant-portrait.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy Bryant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy Bryant (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cathybryant.co.uk\">www.cathybryant.co.uk<\/a>) 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themothersmilkbookshop.com\/look-at-all-the-women-by-cathy-bryant.html\"><i>Look At All The Women<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Featured In<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best of Manchester Poets 1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<li>BBC Radio 4\u2019s Poetry Please<\/li>\n<li>Popshot<\/li>\n<li>Rialto website<\/li>\n<li>Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine<\/li>\n<li>St*rline<\/li>\n<li>Heart Shoots<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; and many more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cathy says:\u00a0<\/strong>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&#8230; I was delighted to be wrong! In 2009 I was runner up in the Woman &amp; Home Fiction Prize, in 2010 I won the Marple Humorous Poetry Prize and I&#8217;m now a regular on Manchester&#8217;s lively Spoken Word circuit. In 2012 I won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Prize, the Sampad &#8216;Inspired by Tagore&#8217; 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 &#8216;Twiction&#8217; 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, &#8216;Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature&#8217; was published recently. I&#8217;m currently writing a book called &#8216;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cathybryant.co.uk\">www.cathybryant.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking for a critique or help with your work?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regretfully I&#8217;m unable to help with\u00a0critiques or any other kind of feedback on your work. I wish that I could, but I simply don&#8217;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&#8217;t afford a professional critique. An awful lot of the advice I would give is in my book &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Writing-Competitions-Make-Money\/dp\/0956581951?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=how%20to%20win%20writing%20competitions&amp;qid=1461574381&amp;ref_=sr_1_1&amp;sr=8-1\">How to Win Writing Competitions \u2013 and make money<\/a>&#8216;, if you want to sharpen up your writing and make it more likely to do well. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Poetry Please Popshot Rialto website Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6nKW9-b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":343,"url":"https:\/\/compsandcalls.com\/wp\/cathys-creative-writing-consultancy\/","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":0},"title":"Cathy&#8217;s creative writing consultancy","author":"cathy","date":"1st October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Award-winning Cathy\u00a0Bryant\u00a0is pleased to announce\u00a0a creative writing consultancy. \u00a0 Cathy\u00a0gets asked for advice, feedback and critiques all the time \u2013 and now, for a very reasonable fee, you\u00a0can\u00a0get them. 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