McLellan Poetry Competition

THE 2022 COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES

We are really excited to announce that this year’s judge will be the wonderful Hollie McNish.
Hollie McNish is a poet and author based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me - of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and her most recent poetic memoir Slug...and other things I’ve been told to hate, which is a Sunday Times Bestseller. With fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz, she co-wrote Offside , a play relating the history of UK women’s football, and has just completed a re-imagining of Sophocles’ Greek Tragedy Antigone, published in October 2021 with Hachette. Hollie loves writing. Her poetry has been translated into German, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, Japanese and French. She is a patron of Baby Milk Action.

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www.holliemcnish.com



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2022 MCLELLAN POETRY COMPETITION PRIZES

First Prize £1300

Second Prize £400

Third Prize £150

Five commendations of £50 each