Last chance to submit!

Dear all,

Just a quick post to say that there is 1 week before submission deadline of 1 October so if you want to submit to the anthology you need to get your skates on.

If you are only just encountering what this is then you can find out more on the posts below and by visiting the website at http://www.worshippoetryanthology.tk/

I am away for a week without the internet so look forward to coming back and reading the final submissions!

See you on the other side!

September update

Hey all.

So it is now fast approaching the deadline for submissions - I  have two weeks of work and one week of holiday away in York before then so I just thought I would post another update before 1 October as I may not get another chance.

Firstly I feel so humbled that so many people have wanted to be a part of the project and that it is something that many of you are behind. When I started out thinking about this project I worried that I was kind of out on a limb with putting the anthology together, that is wasn't something that people would especially be into but I am glad that I have been proved wrong and I believe that together we are creating something that is going to be something unique.

I also want to encourage those of you who have submitted or who are yet to contribute. The standard of the poetry that I have seen has been great but has largely been from other amateur poets who have said that they have been looking for an outlet for their work. I hope that for those people you be encouraged to do stuff with your poems, we need more diversity in Christian Art and I feel that poetry is often overlooked or under represented and so we need you.

And I hope that this project will be an example that anyone can put out their own work. I am by no means an expert and have only ever independently published my own work, just because I don't know what else to do with it, but I am by no means a professional in this area. I work in the health records department in my local hospital and write my poetry in my lunch break of bits of folded up scrap paper. But I have done it enough now that hopefully I can do a good job of putting a book together. So if you want to publish your own book then I would encourage you to do it!

I am still aiming for a release date of January. From October I will begin editing the anthology and finish pulling together some of the classic poems but I will still try to keep a few blogs going in the mean time and will keep updating on the facebook group (link at the tip of the page if you want to keep in touch with anthology news).

I have a few other things that I am working on as well which I hope to spend some time doing in the next few  months provided I can make the time including recording some of my poetry/music and potentially a creative charity fundraiser - I try to update my own facebook page as much as I can remember but if you are interested then please like me at https://www.facebook.com/danielpaulgilbert/

I thank you all again for continued support, prayer and encouragement! In the final weeks please can I encourage you to share the news of this anthology with anyone who may be interested or if you haven't sent anything but may be interested to visit www.stonesbeforetheocean.tk.

Until next time.

Dan