Jay Hulme
Jay Anthony Hulme | |
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| Born | 28 January 1997 Leicester, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Poet, performer, teacher |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | BA(Hons) in English and journalism from the University of the West of England |
| Period | 2014–present |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Website | |
jayhulme | |
Jay Hulme is a transgender performance poet from Leicester, in the UK.
In 2015 he won SLAMbassadors UK, the UK's biggest youth poetry slam, run by Joelle Taylor on behalf of The Poetry Society. That year of the slam was judged by Anthony Anaxagorou[1] and held in The Clore Ballroom at The Southbank Centre.
In 2017 he competed in the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam and later in the year was featured on the BBC Asian Network's Spoken Word Showcase.[2]
Jay's poetry features in a number of solo poetry collections, as well as anthologies published by small presses, such as Otter-Barry Books, and larger publishers, such as Bloomsbury and Ladybird Books.
Personal life[]
Born on 28 January 1997 in Leicester, Jay Hulme was educated at Stonehill High School and Longslade Community College in Birstall, Leicestershire.[3]
In 2018 he graduated from the University of the West of England with a BA(Hons) in English and Journalism.
Bibliography[]
- The Prospect of Wings (2015)
- A Heartful of Fist (2016, Out-Spoken Press)
- City Boys Should Not Feed Horses (2016)
- Rising Stars (2017, Otter-Barry Books)[4]
- Poems Out Loud! (2019, Ladybird Books)
- Clouds Cannot Cover Us (2019, Troika Books)
- The Book of Queer Prophets: 21 Writers on Sexuality and Religion (2020, Harper Collins)
- Here Be Monsters (2021, Pop Up)
- The Backwater Sermons (2021, Canterbury Press)
Awards[]
Carnegie Medal (2021)[5]
References[]
- ^ "Jay Hulme". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "BBC Asian Network". BBC. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
- ^ Barber, Phil (24 November 2016). "Cedars Academy Alumni publishes another Poetry Collection". The Cedars Academy. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Nova's debut collection scoops the CLiPPA Award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ "CILIP Carnegie Medal Nominated Titles 2021". CILIP. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
External links[]
- 1997 births
- Living people
- English male poets
- English performance artists
- English LGBT poets
- People from Leicester
- Transgender and transsexual writers
- Transgender and transsexual men
- Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol