Edmund Cusick Avalon Prize
25 February 2009
The Edmund Cusick Avalon Prize was inaugurated in 2008, to celebrate and commemorate the life and work of Edmund Cusick (1962-2007).
Edmund was Head of the LJMU Writing Department until the time of his early death. He founded the BA course in Imaginative Writing, and pioneered the programme of student residentials at Ty Newydd, Clynnog Fawr and Gregynog. He was also a talented academic and poet who won the Housman Poetry Competition in 1998, and the Keats-Shelley Prize in 2005 for his poem, 'Speaking in Tongues'.
The Edmund Cusick Avalon Prize is open to all students at LJMU, and is for the best poem written on the topic of spirituality. The prizes for this year's competition will be presented by Christina Cusick at an event on 18 March starting at 8pm in The Third Room, Everyman Bistro in Hope Street. The winner of the prize, Alysa Thomas, and the three runners-up, Gillian Hewitson, Deborah Morgan and Hannah Todd, will read their entries, followed by a short film of Edmund's poem, 'January', and readings of poems by other LJMU students.
Entry is free and all are welcome to attend. The closing date for the next competition is Friday 11 December 2009.
