NEWS

EVENTS & signings

Jennifer has been busy taking both Igloo and Happiness Seeker into schools to lead writing workshops and interactive author events; her next school visits take her from West Yorkshire to Marbella.

In December 2023, Igloo won the Grand Prize at the Eyeland's International Book awards.

On January 13th 2024, Jennifer is taking part in Writers Around the Bay at Grange-over-Sands, leading the YA and Adult fiction workshop.

poetry success

Here's my poem which was runner up at the RS Thomas poetry festival, 2022:

In response to Countering, RS Thomas

Calling Time on Love

Now the clock has put a full

Stop on your sentence, I am

Deaf to poetry. A castaway,

No hand takes mine. I

Heave at the hour hand, to counter-

turn it fifty years but it is stuck

at the point of your departing.

It’s I must change time: face

Forward, count the dead hours

Without you; the shipwreck

I am, the proof love has

No end on this isle, even now

You’re in so distant a land, I can

No longer read your face.

Jennifer Burkinshaw