Ivy Alvarez is one of ten poets shortlisted for the Red Room Poetry Fellowship.
Books+Publishing also mention the news on their blog.
She receives “an extra-ordinary opportunity [that] will acknowledge all shortlisted poets by offering a paid poetic commission connected to their Fellowship application“.
As editor of Atlanta Review‘s NZ edition, Ivy Alvarez’s work rates a mention on Paige Turner / Rachel Edwards’s blog:
Ivy Alvarez, poet, via Tasmania, via Wales, via Philippines, via New Zealand, has edited an edition of Atlanta Review, which contains general poetry submissions, as well as poetry by writers from New Zealand. This is the Spring 2017 issue (indeed, the world is upside down, but it is Spring in Atlanta).
Ivy Alvarez’s poem “Manufacture” features in the 2017 anthology Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 political poems (Otago University Press), as mentioned in Flash Frontier‘s April 2017 post.
The anthology recently reached the top 5 Nielsen Weekly Bestsellers for week ending 13 May.
Ivy Alvarez joins an impressive cohort of writers longlisted for the Red Room Poetry Fellowship.
The shortlist will be announced on 8th May 2017, followed by the Red Room Poetry Fellow announcement itself on 19th May 2017.