Results
Michael Symmons Roberts wins 2013 Costa Poetry Award
Congratulations to Michael Symmons Roberts whose sixth poetry collection, http://www.amaz
Douglas Dunn and Michael Symmons Roberts shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2017
Congratulations to Douglas Dunn and Michael Symmons Roberts, who have been shortlisted for the T.S.
Michael Symmons Roberts nominated for BBC Audio Drama Awards
Congratulations to Michael Symmons Roberts whose BBC Radio 4 play, MEN WHO SLEEP IN CARS, has been shortli
Michael Symmons Roberts' MANCUNIA is longlisted for the Portico Prize 2019
MANCUNIA, the latest poetry collection by Michael Symmons Roberts, has been longlisted for the Portico Prize 2019! Once described as ‘the Booker of the North’, The Portico Prize awards £10,000 to the book that best evokes the spirit of the North of England. The biennial prize is the UK’s only award of its kind, and accepts submissions across all formats including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Lauryn Redding
Lauryn is an writer, composer and actor. In 2022 she was one of eight people selected for the BBC Studios Writers' Academy and was awarded a prestigious Peggy Ramsay/Film 4 Playwrights' Scheme bursary for a year-long attachment at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 2023.
Joelle Taylor and Michael Symmons Roberts are shortlisted for the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize
Congratulations to Joelle Taylor and Michael Symmons Roberts on being shortlisted for the 2021 T. S. Eliot prize for their poetry collections C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Press) and Ransom (Cape Poetry) respectively. The T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings will take place on Sunday 9th January 2022 in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, hosted by Ian McMillan. Tickets for the readings in-person in the Royal Festival or livestreamed online are available from www.southbankcentre.co.uk.
Gerald Garutti
As a theatre director, a writer and translator, Gerald Garutti has worked on multi-Awarded plays in France and in the UK.
