About

About Anne Caldwell

I grew up in the north-west of England and have been a keen reader all my life. My poetry has been published in three anthologies - Poet’s Cheshire (Headland) and The Nerve (Virago) and in a new collection by Cinnamon Press in 2007 called Only Connect. My work has appeared in many British magazines including Writing Women, Poetry Wales and Quattrocento. I finished an MA in writing poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2007;  I perform all over the UK, and I am working on my first full length collection which is due out in Spring 2011 with Cinnamon Press.

I have been short-listed in the Huddersfield Literature Festival Poetry Competition and won a micro-story competition that explores the theme of shoes, set up by Museums and Libraries in West Yorkshire by Cartwright Hall. I also won an award to attend the Wired Writing Programme at The Banff Centre in Canada in 2006 which involved staying in Banff for two weeks and then working alongside Canadian writers until April 2007. I also run a company called Sources that specialises in using text and visual art together with digital artist Jack Lockhart. We were commissioned to produce a poetry /animation for National Poetry Day in the UK in 2006 and were in residence with IOU Theatre Company in Dean Clough, Halifax in 2007. In 2008,

I published my first pamphlet collection called Slug Language with Happenstance Press and a book called Some Girls Mothers with Route publishers which is a collection of creative non fiction on the theme of mothers and daughters. I wrote a story for this book and edited the collection.

I have just won an first collection award from Cinnamon Press, so I will be publishing a new sample of poetry with them in 2011.

Contact: Anne Caldwell Tel. 07818 052108 email a.caldwell@nawe.co.uk

More information about my work for schools and libraries; leaflet about Anne Caldwell

To read some of my work please look at this sample: poems-for-web-site1

You can also purchase my first chapbook collection, ‘Slug Language’ from Happenstance Press

at www.happenstancepress.com

You can buy this anthology directly from me by emailing me at

a.caldwell@nawe.co.uk  price £4 including p&p

‘Genuinely Beautiful.  I haven’t read poetry I’ve enjoyed so much in years’

Other places to find my work:

PDF Red Ink 4/Summer 2008 (ISSN 1751-1496). 57pp. Eds. Peter Lewin & Andrew Oldham Cover Art: Lisha Aquino Rooney Poetry: F.J. Milne, Anne Caldwell, Cristina Navazo-Eguia Newton, Ben Macnair, Ed Reiss, Neil Elder, Nancy Charley Story: Alice Wooledge Salmon.

You can read my poetry in two fantastic anthologies by Cinnamon Press. The first is called Only Connect and explores the spaces we can create between our busy working lives. It celebrates the need to take time to create or just think, and includes some interesting new work from a range of contemporary poets. The second is a collection of prize winning poetry and prose. The Ground Beneath Her Feet represents the best work submitted to the 6th Cinnamon Press short story and poetry collection awards; an eclectic range of excellent writing from emerging authors.

Only Connect - purchase these books from Cinnamon Press http://www.cinnamonpress.com/titles-uk-poetry.htm