Scott Lilley
PhD studentProfile
Studying towards a PhD in Creative Writing (Poetry) with a focus on form; sonnets, sestinas, and experiments. Supervised by Eoghan Walls and Catherine Spooner.
Interested in queer identities, masculinities, the pastoral and poetry of place, trauma, the coast, the North, and humour.
Additional Information
Pamphlet: Reactive Orders // If a leaf falls press (2023)
Journals: 3:AM, Butcher's Dog, Wet Grain, Osmosis, Babel Tower Notice Board, Poetry NI's FourXFour, SWAMP.
Anthologies: Virutal Oasis and Annual (Trickhouse Press), Deep Time 2 (Black Bough) and BOLD (Broken Spine)
Competitions: 1st Place in Poetry Society's Pop Culture Challenge, winner of Bedford International Writing Competition's Cygnature Prize.
Performances: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Wenlock Poetry Festival, European Poetry Festival, Circle and Arc (Berlin).
Workshops: 'poetry as meme' (MSt Creative Writing), 'Introduction to Contemporary Poetry' (The Marches School, Oswestry).
Editing Work: Work I've proofread and edited has gone on to win the New Poets Prize, The Queen Mary Wasafari New Writing Prize, been published in literary magazines and elsewhere.