Luke placed in the Fool For Poetry International Chapbook Competition

We are absolutely delighted for Hive poet Luke Worthy who was highly commended in the Fool For Poetry International Chapbook Competition 24/25. The competition is open yearly to new, emerging and established poets from any country writing in English.

The Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition was established in 2005 by the Munster Literature Centre, a not-for-profit organisation based in Cork, Ireland. 

Luke Worthy is a queer poet and fiction writer from Sheffield. His work has appeared in Poetry Wales, fourteen poems, East of the North (The Poetry Business), Queer Responses to Dante’s Inferno (Carrion Press), Soapbox Journal, Arji’s Poetry Pickle Jar, and anthologised in various books including After Hours & Surfing the Twilight (Hive Press), and Broken Sleep’s Masculinity: an anthology of modern voices. He was commissioned by the British Library and Leeds 2023 to write a piece of children’s literature for the Northern Dreaming anthology. He was a digital poet-in-residence for The Poetry Business in 2022 and young poet-in-residence for Sheaf Poetry Festival 2023. In the same year, he was runner-up in the International New Poet’s Prize, judged by Kim Moore. Luke is a member of Hive Poetry Collective. He was a shadow judge for the Forward Prize 2024. www.lukeworthy.com