Jennie Carr lives in rural West Oxfordshire where she loves to walk and run in the countryside and write about it too. She joined Jenny Lewis’s classes in 2012 and has since continued to attend her workshops. Jennie’s poems have been published in magazines and anthologies including The Book of Love and Loss (Belgrave Press 2014), The Cannon’s Mouth, Brittle Star, The Frogmore Papers and Oxford Poetry. She won Third and First Prizes for Poetry in the Brittle Star writing competitions 2014 and 2016 judged by Mimi Khalvati and George Szirtes respectively. ‘Storm’ was a winner in the Poetry Society’s Autumn 2016 Members’ Competition and published in Poetry News. The poem was recorded and played on National Poetry Day in Covent Garden tube station.

Paragon Station 1960 won first prize in the Brittle Star competition judged by George Szirtes.