Our PhD students Lauren Colley and Kate Bustin win the Moth Prize and Aurora Prize
Congratulations to Lauren Colley (PhD student in English) for winning a 2025 Moth Nature Writing Prize, for her poem ‘Crow Baby’. The Moth Nature Writing Prize aims to encourage and celebrate the art of nature writing. It is awarded annually to three unpublished pieces of prose or poetry which best combine exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writer’s relationship with the natural world. Read ‘Crow Baby’ here.
Congratulations to Katherine Bustin (PhD student in Creative Writing) for winning a 2025 Aurora Prize for Writing, for her poem ‘Self Exam: Finding your Cervix’. The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition run by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors, that has run since 2016 and seeks outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry. This year’s poetry prize was judged by award-winning poet Joelle Taylor. Read Kate’s poem and learn more about the prize here.
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