​Biography

Amy McCauley is a writer, artist, editor and performer. In 2017 she completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. In 2018 her poetic drama OEDIPA was published by Guillemot Press.

Amy has delivered workshops, lectures, seminars and mentoring sessions for Aberystwyth University, Edge Hill University, The Northern Lights Writers' Conference, Nottingham Trent University and Wordpool Festival. She runs writing workshops at the Waterside Arts Centre in Manchester.

As a performer Amy has appeared at venues including: The Royal Exchange Theatre, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, The Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol), Free Verse Poetry Book Fair, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and the Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival (Cornwall).


Awards and Prizes
 
​(2017) Nominated for a Jerwood/Compton Poetry Fellowship
(2016) Winner of a Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry
(2013) Travel bursary from Oxford University
(2012-2015) Doctoral Career Development Scholarship (Aberystwyth University)
(2008) Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize

Recognition

Kate Potts on OEDIPA: "This is a risky, ambitious, hybrid piece of work." -- Poetry London, Issue 91 (Autumn 2018)

Vicky MacKenzie on OEDIPA: "Deeply moving, fresh and extremely engaging." -- New Welsh Review, R-28 (Autumn 2018)

David Collard on OEDIPA: "Ferociously good, brilliantly original […] This is poetry with range, depth, drive and ambition." -- Review 31 (Best Books of 2018)


Contact
Email: amymccauley21@hotmail.com 
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