HILARY HARES
About
HILARY HARES
About
I have a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Winchester (First Class Honours) and an MA in Poetry from Manchester Metropolitan University (Distinction).
I also have a certificate in Coaching Skills for Writers from The Arvon Foundation/National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and The Maple Diploma in Professional Proofreading and Editing.
All of this is underpinned by a life-long love of words and a thirty-seven year track record of using their power to raise money from people for good causes.
I have a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Winchester (First Class Honours) and an MA in Poetry from Manchester Metropolitan University (Distinction).
I also have a certificate in Coaching Skills for Writers from The Arvon Foundation/National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and The Maple Diploma in Professional Proofreading and Editing.
All of this is underpinned by a life-long love of words and a thirty-seven year track record of using their power to raise money from people for good causes.
The cauliflower lungs start to paddle and heave like the cross-thread gears of a mountain bike’
Lament of the Night Cough
Magma (2017)
Publishing Track Record
Over a hundred of my poems have found their way out into the world in various guises including:
Anthologies: Lines Underwater 2013, Inspired by my Museum 2014, Hampshire Writers’ Society Anthology of the Best of 2011-2014, Clear Poetry Anthology 2016, Imbolc 2017, Cookham Festival Stanley Spencer Poetry Anthology 2017, Poems to Keep 2017, Herrings 2017, Loose Muse Winchester Anthology, 2018, Paper Swans Pocket Book of Weddings 2018, Words for the Wild Anthology 2018, Farnham Lockdown Poetry Anthology 2021.
Competitions: Cannon Poets 2022 Sonnet or Not Competition (second prize), Second Light Competition 2021 (commended), Hippocrates Prize 2020 (Commended), Write by the Sea 2018 Literary Festival (winner), Settle Sessions 2019 (second prize), Hyde 900 Poetry Competition 2018 (third prize), Magma Shorts Editors’ Prize 2018 (commended), Erbacce Pamphlet Competition 2018 (longlist), Settle Sessions Competition 2018 (commended), Grey Hen Poetry Competition 2016 (shortlist), Hampshire Writers Society Competition October 2016 (second prize), Nantwich Words and Music Festival Poetry Competition 2016 (highly commended), Paragram-Paradox Prize 2016 (shortlist), Christchurch Writers Competition 2013 (First Prize for Poetry), The Plough Prize 2011 (longlist).
Collaborations: Elemental Dialogues, Writing Hampshire. British Art Show 8, Southampton City Art Gallery. Reading Museum.
Magazines: Acumen, Algebra of Owls, Amaryllis, Antiphon, ARTEMIS, As Above So Below, Atrium, Bare Fiction, Dreamcatcher, Dreich, Envoi, Eye Flash Poetry Journal, Fenland Poetry Journal, First Time, Fenland Poetry Journal, Finished Creatures, Fresh Air Poetry, Green Ink Poetry, I am not a silent poet, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Lake View Journal, Lighthouse Literary Magazine, Littoral Magazine, Lonesome October Lit, London Grip, Magma, Marble Poetry, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, Poems in the Waiting Room, Pulp Poets Press, Riggwelter, RiverSide (Two Rivers Press), South, Strange Poetry, South Bank Poetry Journal, Southlight, Stand, The Alchemy Spoon, The Beach Hut, The Beacon, The Cabinet of Heed, The Fat Damsel, The Dawntreader, The Fenland Reed, The High Window, The Interpreter’s House, The Lake, The Mechanics Institute Review (MIR) Online, The New Writer, The Phare, The Poetry Village, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Under the Radar, Words for the Wild.
The garden is small, its light infinite
Hepworth
Stand (2019)
The cauliflower lungs start to paddle and heave like the cross-thread gears of a mountain bike’
Lament of the Night Cough
Magma (2017)
Publishing Track Record
Over a hundred of my poems have found their way out into the world in various guises including:
Anthologies: Lines Underwater 2013, Inspired by my Museum 2014, Hampshire Writers’ Society Anthology of the Best of 2011-2014, Clear Poetry Anthology 2016, Imbolc 2017, Cookham Festival Stanley Spencer Poetry Anthology 2017, Poems to Keep 2017, Herrings 2017, Loose Muse Winchester Anthology, 2018, Paper Swans Pocket Book of Weddings 2018, Words for the Wild Anthology 2018, Farnham Lockdown Poetry Anthology 2021.
Competitions: Cannon Poets 2022 Sonnet or Not Competition (second prize), Second Light Competition 2021 (commended), Hippocrates Prize 2020 (Commended), Write by the Sea 2018 Literary Festival (winner), Settle Sessions 2019 (second prize), Hyde 900 Poetry Competition 2018 (third prize), Magma Shorts Editors’ Prize 2018 (commended), Erbacce Pamphlet Competition 2018 (longlist), Settle Sessions Competition 2018 (commended), Grey Hen Poetry Competition 2016 (shortlist), Hampshire Writers Society Competition October 2016 (second prize), Nantwich Words and Music Festival Poetry Competition 2016 (highly commended), Paragram-Paradox Prize 2016 (shortlist), Christchurch Writers Competition 2013 (First Prize for Poetry), The Plough Prize 2011 (longlist).
Collaborations: Elemental Dialogues, Writing Hampshire. British Art Show 8, Southampton City Art Gallery. Reading Museum.
Magazines: Acumen, Algebra of Owls, Amaryllis, Antiphon, ARTEMIS, As Above So Below, Atrium, Bare Fiction, Dreamcatcher, Dreich, Envoi, Eye Flash Poetry Journal, Fenland Poetry Journal, First Time, Fenland Poetry Journal, Finished Creatures, Fresh Air Poetry, Green Ink Poetry, I am not a silent poet, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Lake View Journal, Lighthouse Literary Magazine, Littoral Magazine, Lonesome October Lit, London Grip, Magma, Marble Poetry, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, Poems in the Waiting Room, Pulp Poets Press, Riggwelter, RiverSide (Two Rivers Press), South, Strange Poetry, South Bank Poetry Journal, Southlight, Stand, The Alchemy Spoon, The Beach Hut, The Beacon, The Cabinet of Heed, The Fat Damsel, The Dawntreader, The Fenland Reed, The High Window, The Interpreter’s House, The Lake, The Mechanics Institute Review (MIR) Online, The New Writer, The Phare, The Poetry Village, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Under the Radar, Words for the Wild.
The garden is small, its light infinite
Hepworth
