A huge congratulations to Sheffield Young Writer and Hive Poetry Collective member, Charlie Jolley who is one of two runners up in the New Poets Prize 2024 for her pamphlet The Dreamers.
As a runner up in the New Poets Prize 2024 Charlie received an Arvon residential course of her choice. All four placed – congratulations also to Jayant Kashyap, Cia Mangat, Zelda Cahill-Patten – will receive editorial and mentoring support from The Poetry Business, as well as publication in The North and a launch reading. Judge Holly Hopkins had this to say about Charlie’s work:
“Charlie Jolley’s ‘The Dreamers’ demonstrates a talent for dramatic monologues which directs the reader to consider different moments in history and how they relate politically and emotionally.”
Charlie Jolley is a young poet and fiction writer. She is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award (2023). In 2023 she was also the winner of the Waltham Forest Young Poets Prize, the Hexham Young People’s Poetry Competition, and the Poem:99 Poetry Competition, as well as placing second in the East Riding Festival of Words, and the Charles Causley Young Poets Prize. She has been published by The Poetry Society, Zoetic Press, and in Hive anthologies Dear Life and After Hours. She is an alumnus of Sheffield Young Writers and a member of Hive Poetry Collective.
The New Poets Prize is a pamphlet competition for writers between the ages of 17 and 24 (inclusive). The prize was launched in 2015 and runs annually alongside the renowned Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition, which has now been established for 38 years. Previous judges of the New Poets Prize include Helen Mort, Andrew McMillan, Kayo Chingonyi, Mary Jean Chan, Luke Kennard and Kim Moore. Winners of the New Poets Prize have gone on to publish full-length collections with notable publishers, including Carcanet and Bloodaxe Books, have been appointed as workshop facilitators, editors-in-residence, and competition judges (such as the Forward Prizes), have launched and performed their pamphlets on national radio and at prestigious venues, and have been widely reviewed.