Many congratulations to our newest member Olivia Tuck, who has just been announced as second prize winner of the 2023 Jane Martin Poetry Prize, a national poetry competition for young poets, established in 2010 in memory of Girton College alumna, Jane Elizabeth Martin.
Olivia was awarded the prize for the poems ‘The Obligatory Future Child Poem’ and ‘Mistress of Arts’ (view poems – PDF).
Olivia’s work has been published by the Poetry Society and Broken Sleep, and in several print and online journals. She has been longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize, and is an associate editor at Tears in the Fence and at Lighthouse. In 2022, she completed UEA’s MA Creative Writing – Poetry course with Distinction. Her pamphlet ‘Things Only Borderlines Know‘ is out now with Black Rabbit Press. Follow on Twitter @livtuckwrites.
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