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….
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,…
2022 Creative Writing Prizes
Read all the winners’ and runners’ up entries here. Sloan Prize Winner The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
