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Left to right: Nathan Abrams, Katrina Moinet and Naomi Parsons

July 29, 2025

Announcing the writers chosen from our Fiction and Non-fiction Call-out

We’re excited to announce the three writers chosen to develop publications proposals for our Publications Sub-committee following our recent call-out for Fiction and Non-fiction.

Photo of Abeer Ameer sitting outside by a lake. She is wearing a white shirt and patterned headscarf.

July 17, 2025

Abeer Ameer shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Single Poem

We’re delighted to see that Abeer Ameer, author of Inhale/Exile, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written for her poem ‘At Least’ first published by MODRON. Abeer is shortlisted alongside Tom Branfoot, Tim Tim Cheng, Nick M…

Photo of Paris looking across the city towards the Eiffel Tower in the distance.

July 11, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘(i)’ by Deryn Rees-Jones

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘(i)’ by Deryn Rees-Jones, the first in a sequence of sonnets from her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’.

Photo of Katrina Naomi holding up a copy of her book taken at BBC Radio Cornwall.

June 27, 2025

‘Battery Rocks’ by Katrina Naomi shortlisted for the Holyer an Gof Award

Katrina Naomi’s poetry collection ‘Battery Rocks’ has been shortlisted for the Holyer an Gof Award.

Photo of a green strip of land surrounded by sea with dramatic cliffs in the background.

June 27, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘The View’ by Sheenagh Pugh

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The View’ by Sheenagh Pugh from her collection ‘Afternoons Go Nowhere’.

Close up photo of bluebells in a wood.

June 20, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘Love is lonelier than solitude’

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Love is lonelier than solitude’ by Sue Hubbard from her collection ‘God’s Little Artist’.

Close up photo of rainbow streamers lying across a pink surface

June 13, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘For the Drag Queen Who Lives in My Building’ by Emily Cotterill

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘For the Drag Queen Who Lives in My Building’ by Emily Cotterill from her collection ‘Significant Wow’.

Close up photo of pond weeds floating in beams of sunlight.

June 6, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘A Pond for All Eels’ by Taz Rahman

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘A Pond for All Eels’ by Taz Rahman from his collection ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’.

Photo of a Hawthorn Tree standing proud on the bank of a river.

May 30, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘Hawthorn’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Hawthorn’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her collection ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’.

Graphic showing the cover of The Butterfly House against a dark maroon background

May 29, 2025

Kathryn Bevis shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize

Kathryn Bevis’ debut collection ‘The Butterfly House’ has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2025.

Photo of an old greenhouse with faded paint and smudged windows.

May 23, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘Minutiae’ by Rosalind Hudis

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Minutiae’ by Rosalind Hudis from her collection ‘Restorations’.

Photo of a lone runner running across a fell as the sun rises over distant mountains.

May 16, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘Church of the Sunday Long Run’ by Ben Wilkinson

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Church of the Sunday Long Run’ by Ben Wilkinson from his collection ‘Same Difference’.

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