Jane Ayres
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Jane is a UK-based neurodivergent writer who re-discovered poetry studying for a part-time Creative Writing MA at the University of Kent, which she completed in 2019 at the age of 57. In 2020, she was longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets' Prize. In 2021, she was nominated for Best of the Net, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and a winner of the Laurence Sterne Prize. Her first collection, edible, was published by Beir Bua Press in July 2022. Her micro-chapbook, my lost womb still sings to me, will be published by Porkbelly Press in 2022/23. She enjoys hybrid and experimental writing and observational comedy.
Website: https://janeayreswriter.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/workingwords50
Winning Entry: Not Coming
Contest Won: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2022, Honorable Mention
