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Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith

Poet.

Born, Rotherham 9 october 2001

education, Wath Academy

Lady Margaret hall, Oxford

Lauren, a student at Wath Academy’s Sixth Form, is a young writer from Rotherham who attends Hive’s Rotherham Young Writers. She was highly commended in the Young Northern Writers Award 2019, and is one of 15 Foyle Young Poet Award winners 2019.

Lauren volunteers for Grimm & Co in Rotherham and is passionate about pursuing writing in the future. She has been published in Hive anthology, halfway smile. recently she was commissioned to write a poem about a UK bird for Hive’s Birdlife podcast project. She’s performed at various young writers’ events, and festivals including the Ted Hughes Poetry Festival 2019.

England

2020

DMC

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