Competition Judges
| Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage writes for adults and children, for radio, television and film, and is the author of four stage plays. He has published 16 volumes of poetry, two novels and three non-fiction books. His awards for poetry include the Sunday Times Author of the Year, the Forward Prize and a Lannan Award. He received an Ivor Novello for his lyrics in the Channel Four film Feltham Sings, which also won a BAFTA. He currently lives in Yorkshire and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School, MMU. His latest poetry collection, Seeing Stars, is published by Faber in 2010. |
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| Lavinia Greenlaw
Lavinia Greenlaw has published three collections of poetry, including Minsk, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread prizes, and won Switzerland's Spycher-Leuk Literaturpries. She has also written two novels, a memoir, libretti, song cycles and radio drama, and has made documentaries on subjects from Elizabeth Bishop and Emily Dickinson to solstices and equinoxes. She held residencies at the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Society of Medicine, and is former Chair of the Poetry Society. |
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| Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra won the Forward Prize (Best First Collection) and the South Bank Show Decibel Prize with his debut poetry collection Look We Have Coming to Dover! His work has been published in Poetry London, Poetry Review and The Rialto, and he was a judge for the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize. He was raised in London and Sheffield and currently teaches English at the Jews' Free School in Kenton. |
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