It's been a strange kind of year. I haven't really felt like I've found my groove yet. And it's November already!

Things haven't been helped by all the boxes still loitering in the laundry and hallway from our move late last year. And of course learning that we have to move again really threw a spanner in the works.

But.

There is a but. A silver lining. And that is opening my inbox this morning after a week wrestling with said boxes (I am determined to unpack everything and throw out the stuff we don't need before we have to move again) to discover that I was longlisted for the 2024 Frontier Open Poetry Prize.

Me!

Longlisted for an international poetry prize!!

Maybe I will keep on writing after all :)