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….
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…
2022 Creative Writing Prizes
The work of the winners and runners up are shared on the main page of this site. Sloan Prize Winner…
