John Newsham was born in Bradford in 1989. He has won accolades for his poetry and fiction, and has read at a number of literary festivals across the north of England including the Ted Hughes Festival and the Bradford Literature Festival. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in a number of literary reviews and magazines.
In 2012 a selection of his poetry won a Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize from the University of California, Berkeley, for ‘young poets of unusual promise’. In the same year he won the Grist prize from Huddersfield University for poetry celebrating place in the United Kingdom.
In 2018, his short story, Killing The Horses, was long-listed for the Manchester Fiction Prize run by the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.
His debut novel, Killing The Horses, is adapted from the short story of the same name and is published by Wrecking Ball Press.
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