Angela France awarded Arts Council England Grant

  16th March 2012

Arts grants are always hard to come by, but especially so in these times of austerity. So congratulations to Angela France who has been awarded a grant from the Arts Council England to complete her latest collection of poetry. Angela holds an MA from the University of Gloucestershire and her poetry has been published in many of the leading journals in the UK and abroad. Her second collection, Occupation, is available from Ragged Raven Press, while her most recent collection, Lessons in Mallemaroking (July 2011), is available from Nine Arches Press. Angela is features editor of Iota and an editor of ezine The Shit Creek Review. She also runs a monthly poetry café, ‘Buzzwords’, which meets on the first Sunday of each month at the Exmouth Arms in Leckhampton, Cheltenham. Angela has a firm offer of publication for the new collection, and she expects it to be published towards the end of 2012.