Biography
I have worked as a poet, workshop facilitator and live performer since 2012. I completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University (2017). As a performer I have appeared at venues and festivals including: The Royal Exchange Theatre, Edge Hill Arts Centre, The Arnolfini Gallery, Free Verse Poetry Book Fair, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Open Eye Gallery, Rich Mix and Poetry Emergency Festival.
My poetic drama Oedipa was published by Guillemot Press (2018). My long poem 24/7 Brexitland is published by No Matter Press (2020). In August 2020 Monitor Books publishes Propositions in an edition of 100.
Awards and Prizes
(2017) Nominated for a Jerwood / Compton Poetry Fellowship
(2016) Winner of a Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry
(2012-2015) PhD Funding: 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 (2018). Vicky MacKenzie on OEDIPA: "Deeply moving, fresh and extremely engaging." -- New Welsh Review (2018). David Collard on OEDIPA: "Ferociously good, brilliantly original […] This is poetry with range, depth, drive and ambition." -- Review 31 (chosen as one of Review 31's Best Books of 2018). David Caddy on OEDIPA: "a tour de force" -- Tears in the Fence (2018).
Contact
Email: amymccauley21@hotmail.com
I have worked as a poet, workshop facilitator and live performer since 2012. I completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University (2017). As a performer I have appeared at venues and festivals including: The Royal Exchange Theatre, Edge Hill Arts Centre, The Arnolfini Gallery, Free Verse Poetry Book Fair, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Open Eye Gallery, Rich Mix and Poetry Emergency Festival.
My poetic drama Oedipa was published by Guillemot Press (2018). My long poem 24/7 Brexitland is published by No Matter Press (2020). In August 2020 Monitor Books publishes Propositions in an edition of 100.
Awards and Prizes
(2017) Nominated for a Jerwood / Compton Poetry Fellowship
(2016) Winner of a Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry
(2012-2015) PhD Funding: 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 (2018). Vicky MacKenzie on OEDIPA: "Deeply moving, fresh and extremely engaging." -- New Welsh Review (2018). David Collard on OEDIPA: "Ferociously good, brilliantly original […] This is poetry with range, depth, drive and ambition." -- Review 31 (chosen as one of Review 31's Best Books of 2018). David Caddy on OEDIPA: "a tour de force" -- Tears in the Fence (2018).
Contact
Email: amymccauley21@hotmail.com
