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Alex Pryce is a 22 year old poet, originally from Bangor, Northern Ireland, who is currently studying English at the University of Leicester
Alex received a Creative Sparks award from Ignite! (then a National Endowments for Science, Technology and the Arts pilot programme) in June 2006. Her poems have been published in Agenda Broadsheet, Mslexia, Fortnight, Staple, Room Magazine and The Interpreter’s House.
Alex is Director of PoetCasting (www.poetcasting.co.uk), a UK based poetry podcasting enterprise, created in 2007. The site is funded by the Arts Council England. She has also provided podcasting and new media consultancy services to a number of national and regional Arts organisations and has also spoken at conferences.
In 2008, she won the Art and Culture Woman of the Future Award, presented by Real Business Magazine, supported by Shell. Alex is a member of the Inspirational Women’s Network, and is a Fellow of the RSA.
Some poems are available to read online at the links below, and others can be found in print journals including Mslexia, Staple, Room Magazine, The Interpreter’s House and Fortnight.
Snakeskin (July 2009, No. 155)
nthposition (December 2008)
Agenda Broadsheet (number 9)
Pomegranate (issue 2)
Alex Pryce writes literary criticism, creative non-fiction and on podcasting, new media and the arts.
Peer English, ‘New Directions in Feminist Criticism’ (book review of Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives and Reading Women’s Poetry), (Forthcoming, December 2010).
New Walk, ‘An Interview with Gwyneth Lewis’, review of A Hospital Odyssey (Gwyneth Lewis, Bloodaxe, 2010) (Forthcoming, October 2010).
Poetry Review, ‘Matters of Life, Death and Trauma: Review of Pascale Petit’s What the Water Gave Me and Grace Nichols’ I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems‘ (Forthcoming, 2010)
Chroma, ‘Money Can’t Buy It’, July 2010
Contemporary Writers, Critical Perspectives on Sarah Waters, Ian Sansom and Gwyneth Lewis (December 2009)
Contemporary Writers, Critical Perspectives on Mimi Khalvati, Aoife Mannix and Linton Kwesi-Johnson (October 2009)
Contemporary Writers, Isobel Dixon: Critical Perspective (July 2009)
Salt Podcast Guidelines (25/5/09)
Diary of a Salt Intern (10/6/09)
PoetCasting is a UK based poetry podcasting enterprise I set up in April 2007 with support from NESTA and Ignite!. Since then it has grown to include poetry from over 200 poets.
In July 2008, PoetCasting entered the second phase of development with support from the Arts Council England. This will allow me to develop the website to include live poetry events, audio issues of magazines, and to bring audio poetry offline in a series of events.
- Photo by Alex Hanaam (Leicester Mercury)
In June 2006 I was awarded a Creative Sparks youth fellowship.
Ignite! promotes creativity in learning and encourages creative capactities in young people. Initially a pilot project at NESTA, Ignite Futures Ltd. now exists as an independent and not for profit organisation/
I am very grateful to Ignite! for their support and assistance in setting up PoetCasting and continuing my creative development. Their support has allowed me to work with poets and creative professionals, attend an Arvon Foundation course, attend poetry events, submit to magazines and has allowed me time and space to dedicate to my poetry.
Ignite!
Visit the Ignite! website.
Internet poet Alex Pryce has been dubbed the ‘one to watch` in the art world by judges of the Women of the Future Award. The youngest category winner at just 20 years old, Alex picked up the Booz & Company Art and Culture Woman of the Future Award for her work conceiving and launching PoetCasting, a popular poetry podcasting enterprise which secured Arts Council funding earlier this year.
The judges said: “Alex`s success is an outstanding example of what can be achieved with clear vision and dedication -showing established organisations operating in this field the way forward. She is also plainly interested in her work for what it can do for others rather than for her own gratification.”
PoetCasting (www.poetcasting.co.uk) showcases poets from all backgrounds who share the medium of the internet - a place that poets can be read and heard in one place. The site features the traditional sense of podcasting where poets simply read their work. The initiative has received funding by NESTA - supporting innovation in science, technology and the arts - and Ignite! which works with young people to promote creativity.
Alex said: “The arts has historically been a man`s world - we haven`t even had a female poet laureate yet - so it is fantastic to be recognised. It would be amazing to one day be a mentor for women in the arts like the director of the Poetry Society, Jules Mann, has been to me.”
Women of the Future 2008 Winners
There is an extensive poetry related link listings at PoetCasting - click here to view. Or, visit some of the links below.
Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
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