by Oz Hardwick | Nov 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Oz’s poem “Witness Statement” has won this year’s Charles Simic Prize. Judge Dana Levin said of Oz’s poem: I went on the hunt for a poem that carried some of the spirit of Charlie’s work: vivid images; a touch of the surreal; a...
by Oz Hardwick | Jun 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
At the slightest provocation, Oz will head off on a tangent about his musical enthusiasms, of which none tops space rock legends Hawkwind, who he discovered, aged twelve, courtesy of their famous Top of the Pops appearance. In the intervening half-century, apart from...
by Oz Hardwick | Jun 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Oz is somewhat amazed to have won the 2024 Dolors Alberola International Poetry Prize for his manuscript Orion Higheway. The book will be published as an English/Spanish edition by DALYA Publishing in late 2024/early 2025. Gathering previously uncollected poems and...
by Oz Hardwick | Jan 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Oz is one of the poets who was invited to contribute to The Mackinaw, a new journal of prose poetry, edited by Lorette C. Luzajic. The other poets, each of whom is represented in Issue 1 by a selection of new work, are Cassandra Atherton, Claire Bateman, Carrie Etter,...
by Oz Hardwick | Jan 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Oz’s poem ‘2000 Years BCC’ has won the inaugural competition in The Prose Poem journal. The poem can be read here.
by Oz Hardwick | Oct 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Oz has been recognised by Arc magazine (India) with the Arc Poetry Prize 2022 for “a lifetime devotion and service to Prose Poetry”. Though naturally somewhat concerned about the retrospective implications of a “lifetime” award, I am genuinely...
by Oz Hardwick | Nov 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
On 21st December, Hedgehog Poetry Press will be publishing The Still and Fleeting Fire by Amina Alyal and Oz Hardwick. Marking 700 years since the death of Dante Alighieri, the chapbook, which won the Hedgehog “Conversationally Yours” competition, is a...
by Oz Hardwick | Oct 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Oz’s chapbook Learning to Have Lost (Canberra: IPSI/Recent Work, 2018) was this year’s poetry winner in the Rubery International Book Awards. Read what the judges had to say here. The book has now run to a second edition, and is available through all usual...
by Oz Hardwick | Apr 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
In a rare foray into short fiction, Oz’s story Primavera has been published by A Thousand Words, working with the charity Interact. A noirish slice of magical realism prompted by an intriguing photograph by Alexander Parkyn-Smith, it can be read here.
by Oz Hardwick | Jan 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Oz is knocked out to have won the Hedgehog Poetry Press’s Full Fat Collection prize. His winning chapbook, The Lithium Codex, will be published by Hedgehog in Spring 2019. Writing of the collection, judge David Mark Williams said: “As soon as I started reading...
