Devki Panchmatia: Bear Hunt
Runner-Up for the 2023 Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize Devki Panchmatia is a poet based in Edinburgh and London. She was…
Suzanne Enoch: Stanes
Runner-Up for the 2023 Sloan Prize Suzy Enoch is a Scottish writer and actress who grew up in Aberdeen. After…
Rosie Gandon: Four
Runner-Up for the 2023 Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize Rosie Gandon is a student and writer from East Sussex, currently studying…
Rachel Rankin: Single Track Road
Winner of the 2023 Grierson Verse Prize Rachel Rankin is a poet and translator from Coatbridge, currently based in Edinburgh….
Kate Genevieve: Lessons
Runner-Up for the 2023 Grierson Verse Prize Kate Genevieve is a Uk-based writer born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. She…
Alice Eaves: Breeding Fires
Runner-Up for the 2023 Grierson Verse Prize Alice Eaves is an artist and writer from Blackpool, England. She is currently…
Malika McKenney: The Future is a Dying Dog
Runner-Up for the 2023 Grierson Verse Prize Malika is a second year English Literature and History student from Miami, Florida….
Holly Sargent: Collecting Dust
Runner-Up for the 2023 Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize Holly Sargent is a fourth year student of English Literature from Bracknell,…
Pollyanna Jackson: Georgie
Winner of the 2023 Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize Pollyanna Jackson is an English Literature student based in Edinburgh & Oxfordshire….
Declan Kelly: The Immortality of a Crab
Winner of the 2023 Sloan Prize Declan Kelly was born in Edinburgh and has lived there his whole life, especially…
Meghan Link: The Sound o Hame
Runner-Up for the 2023 Sloan Prize Meghan Link is a Spanish and English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh,…
Edward McLaren: The Unfurled Teeger
Runner-Up for the 2023 Sloan Prize Balancing work on a novel about an occultist soldier coming back to life in…
2023 Creative Writing Prizes
The work of the winners and runners up are shared on the main page of this site. Sloan Prize Winner…
Dorothy Lawrenson: Three Sangs o Derkness an Licht
Runner Up for the 2022 Sloan Prize Dorothy Lawrenson was born in Dundee and grew up in Fife. She has…
Siru: Fengxian
Runner Up for the 2022 Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize Siru grew up by a tributary of the Yangtze River, in…
Heather Dunnett: let mi spik
Runner Up for the 2022 Sloan Prize Heather Dunnett is a queer Aberdonian poet currently working towards her MSc in…
Ailsa Fraser: Augurs Alone
Runner Up for the 2022 Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize Ailsa Fraser (she/her) is a queer writer of speculative fiction, studying History and…
Olivia Thomakos: What You Wish For
Winner of the 2022 Grierson Verse Prize Olivia Thomakos is an English teacher and poet from Ohio, USA. She is…
Beth Grainger: Putting it this way
Runner Up for the 2022 Grierson Verse Prize Beth Grainger is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of…
Hattie Atkins: Semiotics
Runner Up for the 2022 Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize Hattie Atkins is a Mancunian writer living and studying in Edinburgh….
