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The Poet's Wife has been shortlisted for the prestigious
East Midlands Book Award. The judges for this year’s award are the poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan, Jaci Brumwell (Head of Libraries and Heritage, Derbyshire County Council) and John Holmes (BBC). The winning writer will be announced at Lowdham Book Festival on Monday 20th June 2011 and will receive a cheque for £1000. The shortlist will be promoted via bookshops, libraries, book groups and events.
The Poet's Wife is available in paperback and is being promoted in Waterstones 3 for 2s. It has been favourably reviewed by The Times, Daily Mail and Times Literary Supplement. Read Reviews
Additional material for reading groups is included in the paperback edition and also online at the Random House readers web site, Readersplace.
A reading guide for ‘The Poet’s Wife’ is available at Readersplace. Ideal for reading groups, the Reading Guide includes: Starting Points for Discussion, Interview - How I Came to Write the Book and Suggested Further Reading.
Random House offer 30% off and free p&p to customers buying on line. Details are under ‘special offfers’ at the Readersplace website.
Commonwealth Short Story Awards. Judith's story, Hiding in the Cracks, has won a 'highly commended' award in the 2009 Commonwealth Short Story Competition which received over 4000 entries from writers throughout the Commonwealth. A CD of all the winning entries 'Voices from Our World' will be distributed to all Commonwealth broadcasters and is available to buy from the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.
A Mile of River is now out in paperback and was picked as one of the 'Best of 2009' on Lovereading website where it was described by Sarah Broadhurst as 'Most Impressive'.
A Mile of River was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature 2008. www.theportico.org.uk/portprize.htm
Judith joined Simon Mayo's book panel on Radio Five Live on 24th April to discuss A Mile of River which had been chosen as Book of the Month. The reviewers were: Boyd Hilton, Joel Morris and Helen Dunning and the listener reviewer was Giovanna Dunmall. The novel met with universal approval and the writing was described as sensitive, assured, intoxicating and poetic. Will Self, whose new novel ' The Butt' was being reviewed also commented favourably on the book, particularly its evocation of a rural setting. Read more about Book of the Month. You can listen to the programme by downloading it from BBC Radio Five.
Judith's feature article on the experience of appearing live on national radio, written for Transworld's new website 'Between the lines' can be read here.
Judith’s short story, The Sand Monster, was recently featured on BBC Radio 4’s One to Watch – a showcase of talented, up-and-coming writers.
Judith’s story The Sand Monster has also been chosen by judge Tracy Chevalier as one of the top thirteen stories for the Bridport Prize.
The story featured in the Bridport Prize Anthology 2007.
 
Events
'Writing Futures', a Northamptonshire Libraries project will be launched over the weekend of 5th/6th March to tie in with World Book Night. Judith, together with Ben Elijah, will be facilitating the project in which a group of writers will attempt to write a digital book in 48 hours.
More details at http://writing-futures.squarespace.com
'Selling your first novel'. Judith will be teaching this one day workshop for Writing School Leicester on Saturday 12th March 10am-4pm. Click here for details and booking.
Nottingham Writers' Club. The workshop 'Kick start your Writing and Fine Tune your Craft' will be taught by Judith on Saturday 19th March 10am-4pm. Click here for details and booking form.
'The Poet's Wife - An Evening with Judith Allnatt' will be held at the John Clare Theatre, Peterborough Central Library, Broadway, Peterborough at 7pm on 23rd March. Tickets are £3 (£2 concessions). For more information or to reserve tickets please ring 01733 864287 or email.
Judith will be giving a talk and reading on The Poet’s Wife for N16 Writers and Readers at Stoke Newington Bookshop, 159 Stoke Newington High St. at 8pm on 11th July 2011. Tel. 0207 249 2808 for details
At the Winchester Writers’ Conference, to be held at the University of Winchester over the weekend of 1-3rd July, Judith will be tutoring and providing one-to-one appointments with delegates in support of their writing. For full details or to order a conference brochure click here, or call 01962 841515.
Judith will be teaching a five-day residential course on the novel alongside Barbara Large MBE, Director of the Winchester Writers' Conference. The Great Fiction Workshop will be taught at Centro Rural Sineu, Mallorca, 9th-15th October 2011. The course will include workshops, one to one appointments and evening readings in the idyllic setting of Centro Mallorca. Details are at www.centromallorca.com. If you have further questions about the course please contact barbara.large@winchester.ac.uk or judithallnatt@btopenworld.com.