Three Writers on Writing: A conversation with Jerwood Fellows
BS/104, the Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
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Writers at York
About the speakers
J.A. Mensah’s debut novel, Castles from Cobwebs, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the NorthBound Book Award. Her short stories have been published by Comma Press, New Writing North, Dead Ink and Bloomsbury. Her plays have been produced by companies including Pilot Theatre and Live Theatre, among others.
She worked in arts and cultural management for a decade, was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, and now teaches literature and creative writing at the University of York.
Kym Deyn is a poet and writer of weird fiction who moonlights variously as a tarot reader, a librarian, and the editor of The Braag CIC, a micro-press based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Their pamphlets include Dionysia and Unfurl.
They have been widely published in anthologies and journals for their poetry and prose, including Butcher’s Dog, 14 Poems and Strange Horizons. They’ve been shortlisted for awards including The Bridport Prize and recently came third in the 2025 Oxford Poetry Prize. They are a member of the Writing Squad and were selected for the 2024 Hachette GYS scheme. Their debut poetry collection Folkish is published by Nine Arches.
Katherine Horrex’s first collection Growlery is published by Carcanet. It was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize in 2021, and featured a poem called ‘Parliament, Fallen’, which was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes Best Poem category.
Her poems have featured in a variety of publications, such as The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry London, The Manchester Review, The Morning Star and others. They have also been anthologised in The Forward Prizes Anthology 2021, and The Emma Press anthology Some Cannot Be Caught.
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Wheelchair accessible
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