Tim Craven
Tim is from Stoke-on-Trent, lives in Scotland and works for Manchester Metropolitan University. He has an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, which explored mental illness in Confessional poetry. He won the Grierson Verse Prize in 2017. His pamphlet, Lake Effect, is published by …
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 Pratyusha of Second Memory (Guillemot Press and Baseline Press). Her debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, is forthcoming with YesYes Books and Polygon Books in 2022. She is …
Past winners
Read a selection of our past winners’ entries Read a selection of the entries given a special mention Feb 21, 2022
Roshni Gallagher: The Whitby
Roshni is a poet from Leeds. Roshni received a special mention of the Grierson Verse Prize in 2019. She is a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2022. Her work is published in Best Scottish Poems 2020, Gutter, Butcher’s Dog, The Scotsman newspaper and more. She has performed her work …
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 Prize in 2021. He hopes that his admittedly tall tale of judicial misconduct will prove no bar to professional progression in either field. Feb 18, 2022
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 was the recipient of a special mention of the Grierson Verse Prize in 2020. His debut pamphlet, Faces Adjacent, was published by Ghost City Press in June 2021. You can …
Alice Orr
Alice is a writer and academic from Edinburgh. She has been published in Scottish Review, Nomad, Extra Teeth, Like the Wind and Forum. Her short story, ‘The Return’, won The Sloan Prize in 2021 and is currently being adapted as a novel. Alice currently works as a Staff Writer and …
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 creatively for as long as I can remember, winning an award in one of the Rotary Club’s short story competitions and even being crowned Bard at my high school’s Eisteddfod. …
Declan Kelly: Woodburn
I was born in Edinburgh and have lived there my whole life, especially enjoying the city for it’s atmosphere and people. I first began writing in high school and continued to do so after winning a school writing prize. I am currently studying law at the University of Edinburgh 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 in the Yorkshire Moors, plagued by Brontëesque cliches, she now resides amongst the loch-monsters of Scotland (though she is yet to see one in real life). Her work focuses on …
Kiefer Holland: The Kübler-Ross Sonnets
Kiefer Holland was the recipient of a special mention of The Grierson Verse Prize 2021. Feb 18, 2022
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 recipient of a special mention of the Lewis Edwards Memorial Prize in 2021. Their work is centred around emotion and character, existing at the intersection of macabre and thriller; they …
Charles Lang: Clairvoyant
Charles Lang is from Castlemilk in Glasgow. He studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. He won the Sloan Prize in 2019. His published work includes Aye ok (Speculative Books, 2020) and …
Hayley Bernier: The Old Hipster of St-Henri
Hayley Bernier (she/her) is a queer Canadian writer, who at the moment is favouring and focusing on poetry, especially in relation to her family history. She completed her MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh in 2020, the same year she received a special mention of the Grierson …
Armaan: In The Clouds
Armaan is a student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His short story, In The Clouds, received a special mention of the Lewis Memorial Prize in 2021. He also received a special mention of the Lewis Memorial Prize in 2020. Read Armaan’s entry Not A Day For Outings …
Kirsty Souter: Whit Wis Stolen Fae The Big Man
From Fife, Kirsty studied English Literature and History at Edinburgh University, and stayed for an MSc in Creative Writing. She won the Sloan Prize in 2020. A fan of Scottish history and folklore and all things uncanny, she has had work published in Gutter magazine, Tether’s End and Scottish Book …
Armaan: Not A Day For Outings
Armaan is a student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His short story, Not A Day For Outings, received a special mention of the Lewis Memorial Prize in 2020. He also received a special mention in the Lewis Memorial Prize in 2021 and won the Lewis Memorial Prize …
