The body of memory is thick-skinned by current UEA student Perla Kantarjian has been shortlisted in the Magma Poetry Pamphlet Competition. Perla (pictured) is a Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist and editor, and is currently completing the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) as the 2022 Sonny Mehta Scholar. Earlier this year she was the winner of the Illuminarium Chronicles Continental Voices Competition, second-placed in the Indigo Dreams Publishing Open Poetry Prize, commended in the Poetry Society Young Poets Network Protest Poetry Challenge, commended in the EHP Barnard Spring Poetry Prize, Highly Commended in the South Downs Poetry Competition, Highly Commended in the Wildfire Words New Voices First Pamphlet Award, and longlisted for the Lucent Dreaming Poetry Prize.
Perla Kantarjian shortlisted for Magma Poetry Pamphlet Competition
