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Berta Freistadt MABerta Freistadt MA is a playwright, tutor, poet and short story writer, her work has been published in anthologies, journals and magazines in the UK, Israel and the USA. It has also been seen on buses in outer London. During the 80s, her plays were performed in London, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands & Australia. She is also co-editor of a book of lesbian & gay poetry,Language of Water, Language of Fire: A... (pub. Oscars Press ‘92). A short film script she wrote, The Wall, won a Fiji filming bursary and was short listed for the BAFTA short film awards in 1996. In 1999, she was a winner in the Blue Nose/Museum of London Millennial Poetry Competition and in the Lexikon poetry competition. In the spring/summer of ‘00 she performed her work from the art of dis/appearing (ed. Leah Thorn. Inspire Production ‘00) at Smithfield’s Festival and for Apples & Snakes at Battersea Arts Centre.Berta Freistadt MA Her writing has also been used by artist Joanna Bird who makes hand-made books and displayed at the Barbican Artist Book Fair in London, November ‘00. In 2001, she was highly commended in the Blue Nose Poet of the Year Competition for her long poem Question of Maps. She was also awarded a special honorarium for artistic excellence from Mother Tongue Ink. USA. In early 2004, Five Leaves of Nottingham published a book of her poetry – Flood Warning: A... She has exhibited her work at the Half Empty Bookcase - a Jewish Women’s Conference and performed at Centerprise, the Poetry Cafe in London and the Jewish Museum. Berta teaches Autobiography for Women at Birkbeck College of London University. She also teaches Creative Writing, Life Writing and Beginner’s Poetry at the Mary Ward Centre. In her teaching, she aims for a balance of enjoyment and discipline for both herself and her students. The enjoyment of the act of writing that comes from the students’ growing self confidence as they learn skills and appreciate their talents and the discipline of committing to the task of learning to be a writer with all the pleasures and conflicts that are involved.Berta Freistadt MA She has recently finished writing a collection of connected speculative-fiction stories, Mass Dreams of the Future - a chap book of visions and fairy-tales set in a post cataclysmic landscape. Currently she is writing a memoir of unparallel fabrication. Berta is a typical Londoner - father, Czech/Jewish; mother, Irish/Scots she lives in North London next to a cemetery where the neighbours are quiet and where her cat Bluebell can do unspeakable things to other cats.
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for which I couldn't find any web links: Martello Writers - Martello Writers Autumn Open Poetry Competition Poems on any theme upto 40 lines Contact:The Secretary Martello Writers, 11 Barcombe Walk, Old Town Eastbourne, East Sussex BN20 8HT England Lexikon poetry competition - Lexikon Publishing Open Poetry Competition: Entry form and guidelines are available from: Lexicon Open Poetry Competition, Lexikon, PO Box 754, Stoke on Trent, ST1 4BU England, upon receipt of an A4 stamped addressed envelope. Berta Freistadt MA
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