How can you write lines that sing in many voices? Lend an ear to our next Heard Word Featured Writer and find out. Our guest will be Georgia Hilton who will be talking about her unique polyphonic writing style. That Wednesday the 11th of December, 2024 from 5-7PM on Zoom. To get Georgia’s feedback on your work sign up to be one of our presenting writers. There are both 20-minute (1500 words) and 5-minute (700 word “lighting round”) slots available. You can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/…/1TfI5…/edit…

Even if you aren’t presenting, please join us to offer feedback. Here is the link. https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85437743352…

A bit more about our Featured Writer:

Georgia Hilton is an Irish poet and fiction writer now living in Winchester, England. Her work has been published in magazines such as the Rialto, Prole Magazine, The Alchemy Spoon and Illuminations, amongst others. She is the author of two books of poetry, ‘I went up the lane quite cheerful’ (2018) and ‘Swing’ (2020), both published by Dempsey and Windle. Georgia is also co-author of the collaborative anthology ‘Sea Between Us’ (2022), published by Nine Pens Press. Her poem ‘Dark-Haired Hilda Replies to Patrick Kavanagh’ won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize in 2018 and her poem ‘The Lost Art of Staring Into Fires’ was runner up in the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2021. Georgia holds an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester, and is a long-time resident of the city where she lives with her husband and three children.