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…
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….
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…
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…
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….
Declan Kelly: To Live and Die Out Your Nugget
Runner Up for the 2022 Sloan Prize Declan Kelly was born in Edinburgh and have lived there his whole life,…
Jo Higgs: The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols
Winner of the 2022 SloanPrize Jo Higgs (he/him) is a student from Edinburgh currently undertaking an MScR in English Literature,…
Carl Alexandersson: Some Time Afterwards
Runner Up for the 2022 Grierson Verse Prize Carl Alexandersson (he/him) is a queer spoken word poet and writer, based…
Tim Tim Cheng: She Will
Runner Up for the 2022 Grierson Verse Prize Tim Tim Cheng is a poet and a teacher from Hong Kong,…
Armaan: Hills of Basalt
Winner of the 2022 Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize Armaan Verma is a student of English Literature at the University of…
