{{Short description|English poet and editor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use British English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox writer | name = Holly Hopkins | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = | birth_place = Berkshire, England | occupation = Poet, editor | language = English | nationality = British | citizenship = | education = MA Creative Writing, 2013 | alma_mater = Royal Holloway, London | genre = Poetry | notableworks = [https://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2022/06/the-english-summer/ ''The English Summer''] | awards = Eric Gregory Award 2011<br/>The Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition 2013/14 | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|https://hollyhopkins.co.uk/}} | portaldisp = }} '''Holly Hopkins''' is a Manchester-based poet and editor. She has published a poetry pamphlet, ''Soon Every House Will Have One'' (Smith/Doorstop, 2014), and a poetry collection, ''The English Summer'' (Penned in the Margins, 2022). The former was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, and the latter won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
==Early life== Hopkins grew up in Berkshire and London, and later moved to Manchester.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Rogerson |first=Janet |title=Clare Shaw, Kit Fan, Holly Hopkins & the Hyphenation Duo: 22 October 2022 |url=https://poetsandplayers.co/2022/09/14/clare-shaw-kit-fan-holly-hopkins-22-october-2022/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Poets & Players |date=2022-09-14 |language=en-GB}}</ref> She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Warwick, and in 2013, was awarded an MA in Creative Writing from the Royal Holloway, University of London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Soon Every House Will Have One |url=https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/soon-every-house-will-have-one/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Poetry Business |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Work== Hopkins's verse was noticed at the turn of the century, and she was selected as a Poetry Society Young Poet of the Year in 1999 and 2000. In 2011, "with the help of some initial funding from Arts Council England's Poetry & Young People Project", she helped set up the Young Poets Network arm of the society,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrating 10 Years of Young Poets Network: A History |website=Young Poets Network |url=https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/features/10-years-of-young-poets-network/ |date=2021-04-01 |access-date=2025-09-07 |language=en-GB}}</ref> which now focusses on supporting poets "up to the age of 25."<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Young Poets Network |website=Young Poets Network |url=https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/about-young-poets-network/ |access-date=2025-09-07 |language=en-GB}}</ref> She also won the Eric Gregory Award in 2011, and went on to have her work included in Sidekick Press, Seren Books and Bloodaxe Books anthologies,<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Holly Hopkins |url=https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/holly-hopkins/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=The Poetry Society |language=en-GB}}</ref> and published in The Guardian,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hopkins |first=Holly |title=Poem of the month: How to balance law books on your head by Holly Hopkins |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/11/poem-of-the-month-how-to-balance-law-books-on-your-head-by-holly-hopkins |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Guardian |date=2021-01-11 |language=en-GB}}</ref> The Telegraph and The TLS.<ref name=":0" /> She has performed her work at a number of festivals, including the Ledbury and the Aldeburgh poetry festivals, and at the Royal Festival Hall.<ref name=":8" />
Hopkins won the 2013/14 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Carol Ann Duffy. Her pamphlet, titled ''Soon Every House Will Have One'', which was published in 2014, was praised in Poetry London for a voice "so fresh it virtually sizzles". In the review, the poet Clare Pollard also noted that Hopkins's was "an almost flawless pamphlet performance", calling it "a ferociously impressive debut."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Realities and Dreams |url=https://poetrylondon.co.uk/realities-and-dreams/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=Poetry London |language=en-GB}}</ref> The Poetry Book Society also declared it as a PBS Pamphlet Choice in 2014.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=How to edit a poem with Holly Hopkins |url=https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/features/how-to-edit-a-poem-with-holly-hopkins/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Young Poets Network |language=en-GB}}</ref>
In 2015, she was an assistant editor of The Rialto, a position she now holds at The Poetry Business, and also managed the Forward Prizes for Poetry.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Early Winter |url=https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/early-winter |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Poetry Society |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2016, she went on to win a Hawthornden Fellowship,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Bios |url=https://www.hawthornden.org/bios |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Hawthornden Foundation |language=en-GB}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the inaugural Women Poets' Prize, judged by Sarah Howe, Moniza Alvi, and Fiona Sampson, and organised by the Rebecca Swift Foundation, in 2018.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Porter |date=2018-10-23 |title=The UK's Inaugural Women Poets' Prize Shortlists Nine Writers |url=https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/10/women-poets-prize-2018-inaugural-shortlist-nine-writers-uk/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Publishing Perspectives |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Women Poets' Prize 2018 Shortlist |url=https://www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/news/women-poets-prize-2018-shortlist/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Rebecca Swift Foundation |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Published in 2022, her debut collection ''The English Summer'' was shortlisted for the Forward<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Shaffi |first=Sarah |title=Kim Moore wins Forward poetry prize for 'phenomenal' poems about everyday sexism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/28/kim-moore-wins-forward-poetry-prize-for-phenomenal-poems-about-everyday-sexism-all-the-men-i-never-married |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Guardian |date=2022-11-28 |language=en-GB}}</ref> and the Seamus Heaney<ref>{{Cite web |last=Savage |first=Joanne |title=Queen's University announce Mark Pajak as winner of Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2023 |url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/arts-and-culture/books/queens-university-announce-mark-pajak-as-winner-of-seamus-heaney-first-collection-poetry-prize-2023-4199823 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=News Letter |date=2023-06-28 |language=en-GB}}</ref> first collection prizes in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Writing for the Dundee Review of the Arts, Orla Davey noted that Hopkins's manner of writing allows "a straightforward matter-of-factness to burn through her narrative".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davey |first=Orla |title=The English Summer (Shortlisted, 2022 Forward Poetry Prizes for Best First Collection) |url=https://dura-dundee.org.uk/2022/09/02/the-english-summer/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Dundee Review of the Arts (DURA) |date=2022-09-02 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Similar to her pamphlet, ''The English Summer'' was the PBS Special Commendation for Summer 2022,<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBS Summer 2022 |url=https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/pbs-summer-2022-selections |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Poetry Book Society |language=en-GB}}</ref> and was named one of the best poetry books of 2022 in The Guardian.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dastidar |first=Rishi |title=The best poetry books of 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/03/the-best-poetry-books-of-2022 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Guardian |date=2022-12-03 |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2023, Hopkins won the Third Prize at the Laurel Prize ceremony for the collection. The prize was judged by the poets Pascale Petit and Nick Laird, and the Journalist & Presenter Reeta Chakrabarti.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=2023 Winners |url=https://laurelprize.com/2023-winners/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Laurel Prize |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Hopkins won a Northern Writers' Award in 2023 for a work-in-progress, which will form her second collection.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Lauren |date=2023-06-22 |title=Winners of the Northern Writers' Awards 2023 unveiled |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/winners-of-the-northern-writers-awards-2023-unveiled |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Bookseller |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2025, she joined as the Awards Administrator for the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2025 – Entry Guidance |url=https://michaelmarksawards.org/entry-guidance/ |website=Michael Marks – Awards for Poetry Pamphlets |access-date=2025-12-09}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== In 2016, Hopkins received a Hawthornden Fellowship.<ref name=":3" /> {| class="wikitable" |+Awards for Hopkins's writing !Year !Work !Award !Result !{{Ref heading}} |- |2011 | |Eric Gregory Award |Winner |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners |url=https://societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/eric-gregory-awards/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=The Society of Authors |language=en-UK}}</ref> |- |2013/14 |''Soon Every House Will Have One'' |The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition |Winner |<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners of The International Book & Pamphlet Competition |url=http://poetrybusiness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Website-Doc-1.pdf |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Poetry Business |language=en-GB}}</ref> |- |2018 | |Women Poets' Prize |Shortlist |<ref name=":4" /> |- |2022 | rowspan="3" |''The English Summer'' |Forward Prize for Best First Collection |Shortlist |<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Telephone Girls by Holly Hopkins |url=https://forwardartsfoundation.org/poem/telephone-girls/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Forward Arts Foundation |language=en-GB}}</ref> |- |2023 |Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection |Shortlist |<ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 Shortlist |url=https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seamus-heaney-centre/poetry-prize/PoetryPrize2023/2023Shortlist/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Queen's University Belfast |language=en-GB}}</ref> |- |2023 |Laurel Prize |Third |<ref name=":5" /> |- |2023 | |Northern Writers' Award | |<ref name=":6" /> |}
== Books == *''Soon Every House Will Have One'' (Smith/Doorstop, 2014) {{ISBN|9781902382098}} *''The English Summer'' (Penned in the Margins, 2022) {{ISBN|9781908058942}}
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