Ms Wendy Holborow

Wendy Holborow was born in South Wales, UK, but lived in Greece for fourteen years where she founded and co-edited Poetry Greece. She has won prizes for poetry some of which have appeared in Agenda, Crannog, Envoi, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Pre-Raphaelite Review and many others internationally. She was awarded a poetry Mentorship with Literature Wales in 2012 and completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Swansea University, 2016 (with distinction). Poetry Salzburg published her collection 'After the Silent Phone Call' (2015) and 'An Italian Afternoon' was published by Indigo Dreams (2017). It was selected as a Poetry Book Choice Winter 2017. She was selected as an International Merit Award winner by the Atlanta Review in 2015 and 2016. 'Work's Forward Motion' was published as a result of the author winning the Pre-Raphaelite Society Prize in 2016 and 'I Address You: A Collage' (which was highly commended in the Liquorice Fish competition 2015) and 'Ghosts Before Breakfast' were published as part of her MA dissertation. 'Janky Tuk Tuks' (2018) was published by the High Window Press and '100 Thoughts of Lucy Quieter (2019). She was long listed for the National Poetry competition in 2018. Her latest poetry collection 'Shipwrecked' published by Lucy Quieter Press (2020) and her poetry and art collection with over 60 colour illustrations, Crossing the Line (2021) Her two children's novels were written for her students while she taught English in Corfu. Her debut short story collection 'Dusking Through Waves' was published in September 2021

www.wendyholborow.org.uk