Writer

Claire Collison is one of three winners of the inaugural Women Poets' Prize.
She was placed second in the Winchester Poetry Prize 2020, the inaugural Resurgence Prize (now Gingko) and the Hippocrates Prize. Her first novel was a finalist in the Dundee Book Prize.

Her debut pamphlet, Placebo, is published with Blueprint (blueprintpoetry@gmail.com)

Claire has worked as a creative copywriter and was Arts Editor for Disability Arts Magazine (DAM).
Her short stories, non-fiction and poetry is widely published in anthologies, online, and in magazines.

Claire teaches creative writing in a wide range of settings (see ‘Learning’). She devised Writing the City in 2005, and has been running this and other walking and writing workshops ever since.
Claire combines visual art and writing practices. She was the first Max Literacy resident at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.

Publishing

Poetry
Butcher’s Dog (#4, 8, 11, 14)
Templar Anthology, 2016
Southbank Poetry , 2016
Resurgence Prize Anthology 2016
Flambard Prize Anthology, 2016
Hippocrates Prize Anthology, 2017
Best of British anthology (Paper Swan), 2017
Elbow Room, 2018
Poems for the NHS (Onslaught Press) 2018
Second Place Rosette: Poems about Britain, (Emma Press) 2018
In Transit (Emma Press) 2019
Coast to Coast to Coast 2019
PostGhostPress 2019
The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry (Valley Press) 2019
Finished Creatures (#1,3,4)
The Rialto (#93, 94)
The Creel (Guillemot Press) 2019
Uncommon (Clapham Original Poets) 2019
Beyond Imitation (Corrupted Poetry) 2019
Temporary Spaces (Pamenar) 2020
We’ve Done Nothing Wrong, We’ve Nothing to Hide (Verve) 2020
Field Notes on Survival (Bad Betty) 2020
Magma #78 (Collaborations) 2020
Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse, 2020
Winchester Poetry Prize Anthology, 2020
Debut Pamphlet Placebo 2022, Blueprint Press

Online:
The Island Review
The Compass
Yorkshire Mix
New Boots and Pantisocracies
Bare Fiction
Cease, Cows
Loss Lit

Poetry Awards
Winchester Poetry (second prize) 2020
Verve Poetry Festival (commended) 2020
Primers: Volume Five (shortlisted) 2019
The Rialto Pamphlet Prize (shortlisted) 2019
Women Poets’ Prize (winner) 2019
The Bridport Prize (shortlisted) 2018
Troubadour International Poetry Prize (longlisted) 2018
Outspoken Prize (page poetry) (shortlisted) 2019
Magma Editors’ Prize (commended), 2018
Poetry Business (runner up), 2017
Wordsworth Single Poem prize (finalist) 2017
Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (second) 2017
Flambard Prize - Shortlisted (2016)
Poetry School/Soda Pictures competition (2016)
Resurgence Prize - Second Prize (2015)
Shortlisted/Commended:
Bridport Prize (2010, 2012, 2013)
Arvon, Yorkshire Mix, Writing East Midlands, Flamingo Feather, South Bank Poetry.
National Poetry Competition (longlisted) 2014

Commissions
Several Storeys: Commission to write and facilitate Tales from the Aylesbury Estate, 2017
Refugee Tales - Commission for Aldeburgh Festival, 2017
Kettle’s Yard - Commission to facilitate a poem with Grove School, performed at Gallery reopening, 2019

Prose
2005 - Treading Water (novel) Dundee Book Prize Finalist
2002 - Bridport Prize Anthology (short story)
Also published in magazines and online, incl. Woman’s Own, Virago/Marie Claire, Lapidus, MAKE, Women's Art, Narrative Magazine, National Association of Writers in Education, British Journal of Photography (BJP) and Engage.

Catalogues
1995 - What Can A Woman Do With A Camera? (chapter)
1990 - Silent Health (chapter)
1994 - Viewfindings (chapter)