about

Grace Atkinson is an award-winning poet and facilitator from East London. She completed an MFA in Poetry at Manchester Writing School in 2019, and has read alongside poets such as former UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Hera Lindsay Bird. Her work has appeared in Stand, The Rialto, Bath Magg, The North, Spoonfeed, Poetry Salzburg Review, Leslie, t’ART, among others, and she was interviewed by Dazed Magazine. In 2021, she was awarded a prize in the Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize, and she was longlisted for the Out-Spoken Prize in 2023.

She recently completed a residency with the University of Sheffield, exploring the influence of sports culture in the region. In 2024, she was invited by her local station, South Tottenham, to write a poem marking the opening of the new Suffragette Overground line.

graceatkinsonpoetry@gmail.com