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…
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…
2023 Creative Writing Prizes
The work of the winners and runners up are shared on the main page of this site. Sloan Prize Winner…
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…
2022 Creative Writing Prizes
The work of the winners and runners up are shared on the main page of this site. Sloan Prize Winner…
Tim Craven
Tim is from Stoke-on-Trent, lives in Scotland and works for Manchester Metropolitan University. He has an MFA from Syracuse University…
Alycia Pirmohamed: Tritina for My India
Alycia Pirmohamed is the author of the chapbooks Hinge (ignitionpress), and Faces that Fled the Wind (BOAAT Press), and co-author with…
Roshni Gallagher: The Whitby
Roshni is a poet from Leeds. Roshni received a special mention of the Grierson Verse Prize in 2019. She is…
Jamie Perriam: Crown Label 14
Jamie Perriam is a freelance writer and law student at the University of Edinburgh. He won the Lewis Edwards Memorial…
Alex Aldred: a facehugger sublets a one-bed flat
Alex Aldred lives and writes in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is currently studying towards his PhD in creative writing. He…
Alice Orr
Alice is a writer and academic from Edinburgh. She has been published in Scottish Review, Nomad, Extra Teeth, Like the…
Amy Doyle: Relationship Recovery
I’m a 4th year student at Edinburgh studying English Literature and Classics. Born and raised in Cardiff, I’ve been writing…
Declan Kelly: Woodburn
I was born in Edinburgh and have lived there my whole life, especially enjoying the city for it’s atmosphere and…
Maria Henry: Fire-Bug
Maria is an award winning poet, fiction writer and digital illustrator working out of Edinburgh. Originally from a small village…
Kiefer Holland: The Kübler-Ross Sonnets
Kiefer Holland was the recipient of a special mention of The Grierson Verse Prize 2021. As someone who tends to…
Murdoch Stanfield: Cartyne and the Vindictive Tiger
Murdoch Stanfield is a twenty-one-year-old creative who was born and raised on the west coast of Scotland. Murdoch was the…
