Chris has been invited to run a series of Poetry Workshops for MIND Coventry funded by Poetry-on-Loan run for clients from the drop-in centre.
Chris was commissioned to write for Poetry-on-Loan and her poem My Open Smile was published by them and produced on post card and is available at libraries throughout the West Midlands.
Chris Hoskins poem ‘A Stranger’s Place’ has been commended by the judges in this years Aesthetica Creative Works Competition. The commendation was awarded by the judges from over 4000 entries internationally.
A new anthology of poetry Scattered Reds is to include Chris’s poem ‘Gone Fishing’ http://badlanguagemcr.co.uk
‘Little Henrietta’ is to be included in a new Creative Collection for Children’s Anthology; ‘Happily Ever After’ which is published by Forward Press and is available from www.forwardpress.co.uk.
Never our Skin in The Dawntreader.
Chris was commissioned to write for Poetry on Loan Birmingham and her poem When I go to that Silent Place seeking Solitude was published by them and produced on post card and is available at libraries throughout the West Midlands.
Chris was the winner of the Lyme Regis radio Haiku writing competition.
One of Chris’s songs composed for Round singing Can you see the New Moon Rising was accepted for publication this Spring through NVPN.
One of Chris’s short stories, Falling from Grace, along with others, was adapted for a stage play The last Gasp and was staged for two nights in London by the theatre company Cockandbull productions. Merton Abbey Mills Events
Chris poem Overload is published by Warwick Writers for Warwick Words Festival
Internet Radio Station, Audio Book Radio, has broadcast Chris’s monologues from the series ‘relatively speaking’ for two weeks
Published by Aesthetica magazine ‘Waking in a Strange Place’ Aesthetica Magazine
Poem short listed for The Leeds poetry Peace Prize
Winner of the Amnesty International Poetry competition (Birmingham) in support of their campaign to raise awareness of and stop violence towards women. The poem is published by Amnesty International.
Runner Up of the Ottakar’s poetry competition
Short listed for BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Poet Laureate
Published by Transmission magazine ‘Designer Label’ www.transmission.org
Selected by BBC R4 to take part in their regional master class EarCandy that culminated in an evening performance at MAC. Producer Emma Thomas from BBC R4 facilitated the day which was funded by the BBC.
Ran and co-ordinated ‘Pass the Poem’ a project run as part of Coventry Peace month. This was a huge success and the poem may be viewed on Coventry City Council website. www.coventrycitycouncil.co.uk/peace and an extract of the poem and my own poem for peace can be viewed on the Talking Birds virtual tablecloth at www.talkingbirds.co.uk/twin
The Twin Set for Talking Birds included in their Virtual Fringe project and publication may also be viewed on their website
Winner of the Hertfordshire Poetry Competition The winning poem Loose Change was displayed on all the public transport
Winner of the BBC Radio Bedfordshire Poetry Competition Winning poem The Peacock read on Radio and published by them.
Invited Poet in Residence for twelve months at a Psychiatric hospital in Hertfordshirewith a group of patients who had been the subject of a Channel 4 documentary ‘Out of their Minds’. My brief was to carry the group forward following this venture. A booklet of poetry ‘Swings and Roundabouts’ was produced at the end of the residency.
Poetry Readings and Workshops given to groups and mixed audiences by invitation
Ask the wrong questions’ published in Transmission magazine www.transmissionhq.org
