Isabelle Kenyon

Isabelle Kenyon is a northern poet and the author of poetry chapbooks: This is not a Spectacle, Digging Holes To Another Continent (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York, 2018), Potential (Ghost City Press, 2019), Growing Pains (Indigo Dreams Publishing Ltd, 2020) and two short stories with Wild Pressed Books (Short Story 'The Town Talks', 2020) and Andy and the Octopuses (Fly on the Wall Press, 2021). She is the editor of Fly on the Wall Press, a socially conscious small press for chapbooks and anthologies.

​She was shortlisted for the Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize 2019 and for The Word, Lichfield Cathedral Competition 2019. Her poems have been published in poetry anthologies by Indigo Dreams Publishing, Verve Poetry Press, and Hedgehog Poetry Press. She has had poems and articles published internationally in journals such as Ink, Sweat and Tears and newspapers such as The Somerville Times.

She will headline at Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2021 and has opened Coventry Cathedral's Plum Line Festival. She has performed at Leeds International Festival as part of the 2019 'Sex Tapes', Verbose Manchester 2020 and for Apples and Snakes' 'Deranged Poetesses' 2019.

​She is a fierce dog lover and a confessed caffeine addict.