UEA alumnus Gboyega Odubanjo has been named as one of the four winners of the 2020 Poetry Business New Poet’s Prize, a pamphlet competition for writers under 24. His pamphlet Aunty Uncle Poems will be published by the Poetry Business. Gboyega (pictured) gained a BA in English & Philosophy at UEA in 2017 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2018. His debut collection While I Yet Live was published by Bad Betty Press in 2019 and shortlisted for the 2020 OutSpoken Prize for Poetry. He is a Roundhouse Resident Artist. His work has been published in Ambit, White Review, Wildness, The Interpreter’s House, Pigs, and elsewhere.
Gboyega Odubanjo wins Poetry Business New Poet’s Prize
