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About Wendy

Wendy Klein studied drama and English at the University of Utah and San Francisco State University before leaving the U.S. in 1964. In 1971 she came to England where she qualified as a social worker in 1983, then as a family and couples psychotherapist in 1992. She comes from the kind of background where if you didn’t write, you were the odd one out.

She began to write seriously in 1998-2000 when she completed the first undergraduate diploma in creative writing at Oxford University, followed by the post graduate diploma in modern and contemporary poetry in English at Oxford Brookes University in 2006. Her only novel, Listening for Nightingales, was published in 2002, after which time she has concentrated on poetry.  She has taken part in two Poetry Business Writing Schools (2015 – 2018), and has adjudicated several poetry competitions, most recently The Binsted Open Poetry competition, 2023.  Occasionally she submits her work to poetry magazines, favourites being South, The Frogmore Papers, The High Window, Acumen, Artemis, and The London Grip.  
Occasionally her poems are accepted.

She believes profoundly in the curative powers of dancing, dogs, and reading poetry out loud. She hopes someone will humanely destroy her if she ceases to be able to enjoy these pleasures. 

 

Along with many commended and short-listed poems, Wendy has won:-

2nd Prize in the Ver Poets Competition in 2003,
3rd Prize in the Ware Poets Competition in 2007,
1st Prize in the Ware Poets Competition 2009,
3rd prize in the Frogmore 2009
2nd Prize in the Torriano Competition 2009
1st Prize in the Torriano  Competition 2010.
1st Prize [family section] Norwich Writers Circle 2011
3rd Prize in the Ver Poets Competition in 2011
3rd Prize, Grey Hen Competition in 2013
2nd runner-up, Frogmore Competition 2013
1st Prize Buxton Poetry Competition 2014
1st Prize Havant Poetry Competition 2014
1st Prize Cannon Poetry 'Sonnet or Not' Competition 2014
1st Prize Cinnamon Press Single Poem Competition 2014
2nd Prize in the Poetry Space Poetry Competition 2021

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