Lindsey’s poetry-related biographies are below. If you’d like to read about her other work and interests please have a look HERE
About Lindsey – in brief
Lindsey Holland has won a Northern Writers Award for poetry, been commended in the 2021 National Poetry Competition, commended in the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize, and won third place in the Troubadour Prize. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Magma, Mslexia, Agenda and BODY among others. Her pamphlets are The Lanterns (Eyewear, 2016) and Particle Soup (KFS, 2012). In 2021, she was awarded an Arts Council grant to write a book of creative non-fiction. She is also currently finalising her first full collection of poetry. Her Instagram and Twitter are both @LindseyHolland
About Lindsey – more detail
Lindsey Holland is a writer of prose and poetry. She’s also a literature professional, editor, photographer and tutor. has won a Northern Writers Award for poetry, been commended in the 2021 National Poetry Competition, commended in the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize, and won third place in the Troubadour Prize. She’s also won prizes in the Cafe Waters, Wigtown and Much Wenlock poetry competitions, and is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her poems have appeared in ‘POETRY’, ‘Magma’, ‘Mslexia’, ‘Agenda’ and ‘B O D Y’ among others. Her pamphlets are The Lanterns (Eyewear, 2016) and Particle Soup (KFS, 2012). In 2021, she was awarded an Arts Council grant to write a book of creative non-fiction. She is also currently finalising her first full collection of poetry. Previously, she edited and designed the online poetry magazine The Compass, until 2018. She founded the network North West Poets, for which she edited and published two anthologies, ‘Sculpted, Poetry of the North West’ and the ecopoetry pamphlet ‘Not on Our Green Belt’. She organises and promotes literary events which have included tours, competitions, residencies and launches. She’s also won accolades for photography, from an early commendation in the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year, to 21 prizes from the British Institute of Professional Photography, to which she qualified as a Licentiate. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Warwick and is an alumnus of the Warwick Writing Programme’s MA in Writing. She worked as Events Organiser and tutor for Heaventree Press and lectured in poetry for four years at Edge Hill University.
Her Instagram and Twitter are both @LindseyHolland.