Theresa Sowerby
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Theresa Sowerby has written plays, poetry, and short stories. She has had poetry and flash fiction published in several UK-based magazines and anthologies, including Orbis and The High Window. Her poem, Migration, won first prize at the 2017 Huddersfield Literature Festival. Her one-act plays and monologues have made the finals of several competitions and won audience votes for best work. She has directed her own adaptation of Moliere's The Hypochondriac and a modern, experimental version of Durrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Woman.
Theresa, who has a degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, also lectures on poetry, drama, and fiction; runs Real Live Poets, a Poetry Society Stanza group in Manchester; and does writing workshops in a women's high security prison. She runs an Open Mic event in her home town of Todmorden, in the North of England, near to Heptonstall, the burial place of Sylvia Plath and within ten miles of Haworth, home of the Brontës. She lives with husband, Neil, and chihuahua, Captain Smidge.
The poem Why Be Coy When You Could Be Pregnant, a response to Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, is part of a work in progress, Talking Back, in which minor or unheard characters in well-known texts are given a voice and a brief period centre-stage. To date they are all female.
Winning Entry: Why Be Coy When You Could Be Pregnant?
Contest Won: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2018, Honorable Mention
