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Mara Adamitz Scrupe

POET/ VISUAL ARTIST/ FILMMAKER

Blog / October 29, 2021

Several of Mara’s poems were shortlisted this month for two prestigious poetry prizes; the Bridport Poetry Prize (UK) and in the Canterbury Christchurch International Poetry Competition. 

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< Mara’s chapbook “A Daughter’s Aubade/ sailing out from Sognefjord” will be published this summer by Middlecreek Press; the collection won the 2018 Fledge Poetry Prize.
Three of Mara’s poems are featured in Nimrod International Journal’s 43rd Annual Literary Awards Issue. This issue presents the best work submitted to the 43rd Nimrod Literary Awards; Mara was named a finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize for her poems “field work/ Cass County Minnesota 1938”, “an episode in archaeology/ a scar”, and “Jump”. >

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