Cathy Bryant

Cathy Bryant is the 2012 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Prize for the worst opening line of a novel. Her poems and stories have been published all over the place ever since her best friend blackmailed her into submitting them. She only sent them to magazines to prove to him that no one would want them. She is delighted to be (as she is very often) wrong. In 2010 Cathy won the Marple Humourous Poetry Prize and in 2012 she won the Sampad Inspired by Tagore Poetry Contest and the Swanezine Poetry Competition as well as the Bulwer-Lytton. She is also runner-up Prole Laureate. Cathy co-edits the annual anthology 'Best of Manchester Poets', and her own collection, 'Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature' was published recently.