by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
Zaffar Kunial (headliner and competition judge) Competition winners (support) Published by Faber & Faber, Zaffar Kunial’s debut book — ‘Us’ (2018) — was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Rathbones...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
9th December – Chrissy Williams and Kathy Pimlott Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor living in London. She edits the online poetry journal PERVERSE. Her first book-length collection BEAR was published by Bloodaxe in 2017. Poetry Review called it...
by Web Admin | Sep 2, 2019 | recent events
11th November 2019 – Ink, Sweat & Tears: commission winners Gail Connell & Jo Young UEA MA Scholars – Konstantin Nicholas Rega and Memoona Zahid Gail McConnell is a writer and lecturer from Belfast. Her first poetry pamphlet is Fourteen (Green Bottle...
by Web Admin | Aug 2, 2019 | recent events
14th October – Joint headline Mary Jean Chan and Will Harris Mary Jean Chan was born and raised in Hong Kong, and studied at the universities of Oxford and Royal Holloway. Her debut collection Flèche is a Poetry Society Recommendation, and was recently...
by Web Admin | Jul 2, 2019 | recent events
9th September – Mona Arshi (headliner) Kostya Tsolákis (support) Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. She has also...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 20, 2019 | recent events
Emma Healey grew up in London and is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Elizabeth is Missing, was published to critical acclaim in 2014, sold over a million copies, and won the Costa First Novel Award. Her...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2018 | recent events
Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. His first novel, Submarine, was translated into sixteen languages and adapted for film by Richard Ayoade. His second, Wild Abandon, won the 2012 Encore Award. His latest novel is The Adulterants. A book of his...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2018 | recent events
Sophie Herxheimer is a poet and visual artist. She’s held many residencies and projects, and her drawings have been shown at Tate Modern as well on a 48 metre hoarding on the Margate seafront. Her book Velkom to Inklandt was an Observer book of the month and...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2018 | recent events
Photo credit: Lucinda D-M Daljit Nagra is from a Sikh background and was born and grew up in West London then Sheffield. He’s published four books of poetry, all with Faber & Faber. His poem Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the Forward Prize for...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2018 | recent events
Rosie Jackson lives near Frome, Somerset. Her pamphlet What the Ground Holds (Poetry Salzburg, 2014) was followed by The Light Box (Cultured Llama, 2016). She’s won many poetry awards, including the Stanley Spencer Poetry competition 2017, and has collaborated...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2018 | recent events
Antony Owen is a writer from Coventry and the author of five collections of poetry. His latest collection The Nagasaki Elder by V.Press was shortlisted for the coveted Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry. His poems have been published worldwide and...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2018 | recent events
Photo Credit: Dave Gutteridge Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. She has won a Gregory Award and her fourth Bloodaxe Books collection, the semi-autobiographical Waiting for Bluebeard was short-listed for the East Anglian Book Awards (2014). She edits the...
