Biography
Mary-Jane Holmes is a Forward Prize nominee and Hawthornden Fellow, Mary-Jane won the Live Canon Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2020, Bath Novella-in-Flash Prize 2020, the Bridport Poetry prize, Mslexia Flash prize as well as the Bedford Poetry competition. She has also been shortlisted for the Beverley International Prize for Literature and longlisted for the UK National Poetry Prize. Mary-Jane’s poetry collection Heliotrope with Matches and Magnifying Glass is published by Pindrop Press. Her award-winning pamphlet Dihedral is published by Live Canon Press and her novella Don’t Tell the Bees, is published by Ad Hoc Fiction. Her Lockdown poem ‘Letter from Baldersdale’ joined 20 other poems in the National Poetry Archive on their 20th anniversary. Her collection of Flash Fiction ‘Set a Crow to Catch a Crow’ was published by V press in 2021.
