Nicky Kippax
Winner: Northern Debut Award for Poetry 2022
Nicky's work can be found in many anthologies and magazines – including, most recently, Poetry News, The Rialto and The Alchemy Spoon – and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Bath Fiction Prize and the Live Canon International Poetry Prize. About winning her award she says, "Winning a Northern Writers’ Award is massively thrilling – I had to read the email quite a few times before it sank in! The bursary will allow me to take some valuable breathing space away from my day job and I’m really excited about what the mentoring will bring to my development as a writer."
Nicky graduated in 2020 and continues her association with York St John University by teaching creative writing for adults who use mental health services through our Converge project. She said about studying on our Creative Writing MA:
"The Masters in Creative Writing has given me huge scope for working with and learning from writers of all backgrounds. The department works creatively with community groups and literature festivals to offer students an insight across all genres.
York St John is such a welcoming place to study. It's small enough to feel like you can form valuable bonds with other students and tutors, but big enough that you benefit from all the opportunities you would expect. I'm really pleased to have started studying again after such a long break. I'm using a different skill set to those you might use for family life or running a business, but it's certainly made my world seem wider."
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