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==Notable Achievements==
 
==Notable Achievements==
  
Polaris Prize
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Polari Prize
  
 
==Description==
 
==Description==
  
Poet and writer.  Author of the collection of poems 'Songs My Enemy Taught Me' (2017) and 'C+NTO & Othered Poems' (2021, Polaris Prize winner).  Founder of SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships,  and its Artistic Director until 2018.  Spokesperson for the international spoken-word project Borderlines.  T.S. Elliot Poetry Prize Winner (2021).  U.K. Poetry Slam Champion (2000).  Received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a Fellowship of the RSA, and her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. Commissioning Editor at Out-Spoken Press 2020-2022.
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Poet and writer.  Author of the collection of poems 'Songs My Enemy Taught Me' (2017) and 'C+NTO & Othered Poems' (2021, Polari Prize winner).  Founder of SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships,  and its Artistic Director until 2018.  Spokesperson for the international spoken-word project Borderlines.  T.S. Elliot Poetry Prize Winner (2021).  U.K. Poetry Slam Champion (2000).  Received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a Fellowship of the RSA, and her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. Commissioning Editor at Out-Spoken Press 2020-2022.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Latest revision as of 23:02, 25 November 2022

Joelle Taylor

Country

Great Britain

Birth - Death

1967 -

Occupation

Poet, Playwright

Notable Achievements

Polari Prize

Description

Poet and writer. Author of the collection of poems 'Songs My Enemy Taught Me' (2017) and 'C+NTO & Othered Poems' (2021, Polari Prize winner). Founder of SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, and its Artistic Director until 2018. Spokesperson for the international spoken-word project Borderlines. T.S. Elliot Poetry Prize Winner (2021). U.K. Poetry Slam Champion (2000). Received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a Fellowship of the RSA, and her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. Commissioning Editor at Out-Spoken Press 2020-2022.

See Also

Further Reading/Research


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