Since 2008, D. A. Prince has published three collections with HappenStance Press. The second,  Common Ground , won the East Midlands Bo...

Polly Walshe is a poet and painter. In recent years her poems have appeared in Acumen , Pennine Platform , PN Review , The London Magazine ...

  Penny Boxall is a poet and children’s writer who has worked in various museums. She won the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award with her debut...

  Blake Morrison was born in Yorkshire and was formerly literary editor of the Observer and the Independent on Sunday . His publications in...

Derron Sandy is a Trinbagonian performance poet. In 2021 he won the National Poetry Slam title in Trinidad and Tobago and was long-listed f...

New Walk Editions , which is co-edited by Nick Everett in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Leicester, is publishing its first...

Call for submissions for the 2021 competition! Guidelines Any student currently enrolled at the University of Leicester may enter. Entrants ...

This is a call for submissions for this year's G. S. Fraser Poetry Prize. Guidelines Any student currently enrolled at the Univer...

By Lee Wright On Wednesday 8th May 2019, the first ever "Dissertation Day" took place, as part of the MA in Creative Writing...

This is a call for submissions from current University of Leicester students for the annual G.S. Fraser Poetry Prize 2018. A prize of ...