Kathryn Bevis

Kathryn Bevis is Former Hampshire Laureate and Founder of The Writing School Online. Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines like: Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland Review, Magma, Wasafiri, The London Magazine, and Mslexia. Her poem ‘My Body is Filing For Divorce’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written category) 2023. Her poems have also been awarded a Hosking House Trust Residency, won the Wales Poetry Award, the Crysse Morrison Poetry Award, and the Second Light Poetry Competition, and co-won the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society Members’ Competition.

Her debut pamphlet Flamingo, published in October 2022, was named as one of the Poetry Society’s ‘Books of the Year’ and shortlisted for the Saboteur Award for Best Pamphlet. Her debut full collection, The Butterfly House was published in March 2024.

Photograph by Tina Norris Photography.