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Joy was encouraged by being long-listed for the Bridport in 2006, and making the short-list for the 2006 Chapter One Promotions Open Poetry Competition; in 2007 she was a prizewinner with Chapter One. Subsequent magazine publications include Sofia, Sphinx and The Interpreter’s House; her poems can also be found online at Guardian Unlimited and feature in Poems While You Wait at St James’s Hospital in Leeds. Her work has been selected for a new anthology from Headland Publications in 2009. So, worth sticking at it. With access to the internet opening up the world of poetry magazines and competitions, Joy has begun to think about submitting work again. She feels like a novice at the current game, though. Now getting closer to 70, she has submitted less often than would be useful because timescales are so long, and rules about simultaneous submission so strict. It can be immobilising for someone who feels they are running out of time. Knowing she won’t be the only one in this particular boat, and that there is plenty of talent out there, she decided, with her partner, to start up a new small press to feature the work of older women. Grey Hen is now up for business, and has published a successful anthology, A Twist of Malice (2008), a collection of Joy’s poems from her ’80s ‘coming out’ experiences, Exit Moonshine (2009) and a new anthology, Cracking On (October 2009). Grey Hen’s first poetry competition was held in 2009 and proved very popular; it will now be run annually. (link to Grey Hen Press) Joy was encouraged by being long-listed for the Bridport in 2006, and making the short-list for the 2006 Chapter One Promotions Open Poetry Competition. In 2007 she was a prizewinner with Chapter One. Subsequent magazine publications include Sofia, Sphinx and The Interpreter’s House. Her poems can be found online at Guardian Unlimited and feature in Poems While You Wait at St James’s Hospital in Leeds. Her work has been selected for a new anthology from Headland Publications in 2009. So, worth sticking at it. She is a contributor to Grey Hen’s publications Second Bite, A Twist of Malice and Cracking On (link to Grey Hen Press Books). Second Bite is also the name of a group of three older women poets from West Yorkshire, who do readings together at various venues. Joy is a founder member. Numerous readings with poets from A Twist of Malice across the UK and in Europe have proved to be enormously enjoyable. Sharing poems, a serious business, should in her view also involve having fun — so far, this is working out well.
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