Laura Theis writes poems, stories and songs in her second language, received a Distinction from Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing and has been published in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Germany, Canada and the U.S. Her work appears in journals such as Poetry, Mslexia, Magma, Rattle, and Strange Horizons, and anthologies by Candlestick Press, Broken Sleep Books, PanMacmillan, and Aesthetica, amongst many others. Her Elgin-Award-nominated debut 'how to extricate yourself’, an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month, won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize. She was the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Arthur Welton Award, the AM https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/laur... https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/pro...
Laura Theis writes poems, stories and songs in her second language, received a Distinction from Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing and has been published in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Germany, Canada and the U.S. Her work appears in journals such as Poetry, Mslexia, Magma, Rattle, and Strange Horizons, and anthologies by Candlestick Press, Broken Sleep Books, PanMacmillan, and Aesthetica, amongst many others. Her Elgin-Award-nominated debut 'how to extricate yourself’, an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month, won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize. She was the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Arthur Welton Award, the AM Heath Prize, EAL Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, Mogford Prize, Hammond House International Literary Award, the Alpine Fellowship and a Forward Prize nomination. A runner-up for the Mairtin Crawford Award, she was shortlisted for the Women Poets’ Prize, the Bridport Prize, the Margaret Reid Poetry Prize, the Hippocrates Prize and a finalist for numerous other literary awards including the National Poetry Competition and the BBC Short Story Award....more