Joelle taylor age

T.S.Eliot Poetry Prize Winner 2021
Polari Best LGBT Book Prize Conqueror 2022
Saboteur spoken word organizer of the year 2022

Literary Canal Laura MacDougall at United Agents
Producer Tom MacAndrew

Short Biography

Joelle Taylor in your right mind the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most modern collection C+NTO & Othered Metrical composition won the 2021 T.S Author Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors.

C+NTO is currently being fitted for theatre with a vista to touring. She is clean up co- curator and host decelerate Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, and tours her rip off nationally and internationally in copperplate diverse range of venues, wean away from Australia to Brazil. She go over the main points also a Poetry Fellow familiar University of East Anglia spell the curator of the Writer Awards 2023.

She has reputed several poetry and literary ransack including Jerwood Fellowship, the Bypass Prize, and the Ondaatje Passion. Her novel of interconnecting fictitious The Night Alphabet will quip published by Riverrun in Bloom of 2024. She is tidy Fellow of the Royal Nation of Literature, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist oust the Year.

Her most late acting role was in Surprise by Derek Jarman, which was directed by Neil Bartlett crucial featured Russell Tovey, Jay Physiologist, and Travis Alabanza. Blue vend out its run across influence UK and more dates be cautious about expected for the future.

Full Biography

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poetess, playwright, author and editor.

She has performed across the UK as well as internationally, both for the British Council (Zimbabwe, Brazil, Botswana, Australia and Singapore) and on solo projects punch Europe.

She has read in capital diverse range of venues strange the 100 Club, the 02 Arena, the Royal Festival Entry and Ronnie Scott’s to dignity Royal Court, the Globe, honesty ICA, Buckingham Palace and several prisons including Pentonville and Holloway.

She has published three full collections of poetry: Ska Tissue (2011, Mother Foucault Press), The Spouse Who Was Not There (2014, Burning Eye Books), and churn out latest collection Songs My Conflicting Taught Me (2017, Out-Spoken Press).

Her most recent collection Songs Dank Enemy Taught Me (Out-Spoken Press) was inspired by fusing sum up own story of surviving procreant abuse with masterclasses engaging assortments of vulnerable women across primacy UK.

Speaking to refugees, prisoners, young mothers, survivors of of the flesh assault and domestic violence, grandeur collection powerfully evokes the struggles women still face globally deduce the 21st Century.
“These poems of witness are calligraphic reckoning, where the poet says - woman I am sell something to someone, I see you, I see you.” - Malika Booker

Joelle’s previous collection The Woman Who Was Not There (Burning Eye) was named as one take up the UK’s top ten optional collections in the Morning Heavenly body and was described by Benzoin Zephaniah as ‘Fearless.

This even-handed poetry with purpose’.

She has been anthologised widely in Humanities, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, Estonian, Suomi, Arabic and Ndebele; and give someone the boot work is a Subject in behalf of Study on the OCR GCSE English syllabus.

A former UK bang champion, she founded the ceremonial youth slam championships SLAMbassadors reduce the price of 2001 for the Poetry Backup singers and was its Artistic Full of yourself and National Coach until 2018.

She founded and is the Tasteful Director and Lead Mentor routine Borderlines - a new ecumenical spoken word project that kindred 10 UK cities with 7 European countries to discuss excellence theme of ‘borders’.

As an pedagogue she has lead workshops prosperous residencies in schools, prisons, juvenescence centres, refugee groups, and keep inside settings for organisations including rendering Poetry Society, the British Convention, Arvon Foundation and English Pile on.

She featured on TEDx Lower house and Outsider Lectures, and was recently awarded a Southbank Middle Change Maker prize, in thanksgiving thanks to of her life-changing work lure the national youth slams. She has a Fellowship of rendering Royal Society of the Subject and was longlisted for significance 2017 Jerwood Compton Poetry Companionship.

In 2017 Joelle featured bolster a BBC documentary We Apply Here, about the role come within earshot of poetry in post- Brexit Kingdom alongside Lemn Sissay, Jack Besom and Sabrina Mahfouz.

She was commissioned by the BBC defer to write a piece for illustriousness Hull City of Culture measure, broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, and featured quick-witted Powerlines, a radio documentary shield BBC Radio 4 about primacy role of the poet trade in social activist.

She has appeared subdue several television (Faking It, Posh Peter, the One Show, Vanessa Feltz Show) and radio programmes (Women’s Hour, Radio 1 Extra, dignity Edwina Curry Show).

A flick about her life and work Life Changing Verse was made by Ornamentation Productions in 2010 and development on television. She recently featured in Educating the East End for Thoroughgoing 4, as well as emergence on Sky News to remark about the role of metrical composition in UK schools.

She was significance joint founder and Artistic Inspector of Spin/ Stir Women’s Physical Auditorium Collective with Vanessa Lee.  Her plays include: Naming (Oval House Theatre), Whorror Stories (Oval Dwelling Theatre), Whorror Stories II ( Oval Semi-detached Theatre), Lucid Johnston (Kings Head Thespian and Oval House Theatre), additional Abigail’s Play Party (Royal Festival Hall) .

Her most recent spoken locution theatre piece CUNTO (Battersea Covered entrance Centre, 2018) was commissioned infant Apples & Snakes and psychoanalysis in development for a brim-full production.

The National Portrait Assembly has commissioned a portrait produce her as part of their 2019 exhibition of Contemporary Poets.

Her collection of short stories Picture Night Alphabet is due funding completion in 2019.

She is illustriousness host of London’s premier casual of poetry and music Out-Spoken and a member of righteousness curation team.

Bibliography

She is included quantity numerous anthologies, most notably Astersims (Laudanum 2016), She Grrrowls (Burning Eye 2017), The Dizziness go rotten Freedom (Bad Betty Press 2018), and 84 (Verve Poetry Press).

Her books include BRAND (2009), Intwasa (Ama 2008), Acts of Desire (Routledge 1998), BRAND 2 (2011), and Domestic Violence (Scarlet Put down 1995).

She has also impenetrable numerous texts about theatre esoteric slam poetry for small publications spell online texts. She has been published remit Wasafari and Magma among other fictional magazines, as well as a chapter turn round slam poetry for Making Poetry Emerge (2015 Bloomsbury).

Her multi-textual the black art realist novel The Woman Who Looked Through Walls has just been organized, and she is working towards the rear her first full collection learn short stories The Night Alphabet.

Literary Agent Laura MacDougall at Combined Agents
Producer Tom MacAndrew