Jay Hulme
Born (1997-01-28) 28 January 1997
Leicester, United Kingdom
OccupationPoet, performer, teacher
NationalityBritish
EducationBA(Hons) in English and journalism from the University of the West of England
Period2014–present
GenrePoetry
Website
jayhulme.com

Jay Anthony Hulme is a transgender performance poet and author from Leicester, in the UK.

Career

In 2015 Hulme won SLAMbassadors UK, the UK's biggest youth poetry slam, run by Joelle Taylor on behalf of the Poetry Society. That year of the slam was judged by Anthony Anaxagorou[1] and held in the Clore Ballroom at The Southbank Centre.

In 2017 he competed in the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam and later in the year was featured on the BBC Asian Network's Spoken Word Showcase.[2]

Hulme's poetry features in a number of solo poetry collections, as well as anthologies published by small presses, such as Otter-Barry Books, and larger publishers, such as Bloomsbury and Ladybird Books.

In 2021, Hulme was appointed poet in residence at St Giles in the Fields.[3]

He also serves as the Churchwarden for St Nicholas Church, Leicester, UK.

Personal life

Born on 28 January 1997 in Leicester, Jay Hulme was educated at Stonehill High School and Longslade Community College in Birstall, Leicestershire.[4]

In 2018 he graduated from the University of the West of England with a BA(Hons) in English and Journalism.

He did not believe in God before having a supposed encounter with the divine. He converted to Anglicanism in 2019.[3]

Bibliography

  • The Prospect of Wings (2015)
  • A Heartful of Fist (2016, Out-Spoken Press)
  • City Boys Should Not Feed Horses (2016)
  • Rising Stars (2017, Otter-Barry Books)[5]
  • Clouds Cannot Cover Us (2019, Troika Books)
  • The Book of Queer Prophets: 21 Writers on Sexuality and Religion (2020, Harper Collins)
  • Here Be Monsters (2021, Pop Up)
  • The Backwater Sermons (2021, Canterbury Press)
  • My Own Way (2021, Quarto)
  • The Vanishing Song (2023, Canterbury Press)

Award nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Jay Hulme". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "BBC Asian Network". BBC. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 Online, St Giles (25 June 2021). "Introducing Our New Poet-In-Residence". Church of St Giles.
  4. ↑ Barber, Phil (24 November 2016). "Cedars Academy Alumni publishes another Poetry Collection". The Cedars Academy. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "Nova's debut collection scoops the CLiPPA Award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "CILIP Carnegie Medal Nominated Titles 2021". CILIP. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
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