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The Judges

Hannah Lowe

 Hannah Lowe was born in Ilford, Essex in 1976. She has lived in Brighton and California and now lives in London. The Rialto published her pamphlet The Hitcher in 2011 and her first collection Chick was published by Bloodaxe in January this year. A short chapbook R x is forthcoming and she is currently writing a prose memoir and second collection titled Chan as part of her PhD in Creative Writing. She worked as an English teacher in a London Sixth Form for many years.

 

          

David Morley

David Morley is the award-winning writer of nine books of poetry and the editor of six anthologies of new fiction and poetry. His next collection of poems is The Gypsy and the Poet, Carcanet Press, 2013. David's Selected Poems will be published by Carcanet in 2014. He writes criticism, essays and reviews for The Guardian and Poetry Review. A recent book of poems Enchantment from Carcanet was a Telegraph Book of the Year while The Invisible Kings was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing is a bestseller worldwide.  David is Professor of Writing at Warwick University and was a judge of the 2012 T.S.Eliot Prize.