Jacqueline Mézec
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Jacqueline Mézec is a Jersey-born poet of Breton ancestry who also writes for theatre and screen. Her screenplay Breathe won a Jersey scriptwriting competition and the film premiered at the Closing Gala of the 2009 Branchage International Film Festival. Her play End Notes was selected for a rehearsed reading at Jersey Opera House in 2012 as part of the Jersey Arts Trust Spearpoint New Plays Project. Her poems have won prizes in writing competitions organised by the Jersey Arts Trust, Jersey Evening Post, Jersey Eisteddfod and the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society and she has undertaken poetry commissions for the Jersey Evening Post, Jersey Holocaust Memorial Day and the 25th anniversary celebrations of Jersey Arts Centre. She was a runner up in the Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition in 2013 and 2014 and her poems have been published in Wavelengths: New Poetry in the Channel Islands (Holland House Editions). She contributed the Jersey postcard for BBC Radio Scotland’s Commonwealth Poetry Postcards project for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and was recently one of 15 poets featured in the Jersey Arts Centre WW1 centenary exhibition 100 Poems.Categories: Playwright, Poets/Poetry.
