Girton College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Jane Martin Poetry Prize, a national poetry competition established in 2010 in memory of Girton alumna Jane Elizabeth Martin.
The winning poems can be found below (PDF links):
First prize: Felicity Sheehy
Second prize: Oliver Newman
Felicity Sheehy grew up in the Hudson Valley of New York and has since lived in Connecticut, Corsica, and Cambridge. Her poems are featured in The New Republic, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, Shenandoah, Southern Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. She has received awards and scholarships from the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop, the Academy of American Poets, Narrative’s 30 Below Contest, the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, Brooklyn Poets, and the Connecticut Poetry Society. She has a B.A. from Yale University and an MPhil from Cambridge University, where she studied on a Paul Mellon Fellowship.
Oliver Newman studied at the universities of Warwick and Oxford. He lives and works in Bristol.
Felicity and Oliver will be visiting the College on Thursday 25 April, along with the Judges, to attend the presentation evening and read some of their poems, which will be held in the Stanley Library from 6-7pm. All are welcome to attend and refreshments will be served.