Suzanna Fitzpatrick Non-Member Joined 2023

Poet

Poetry Nonfiction

Suzanna Fitzpatrick (she/her) is a neurodivergent bisexual poet with poems on BBC Radio 4 and widely published in magazines and anthologies in the UK and worldwide, including Black Iris, Finished Creatures, London Grip, Magma, Mslexia, The North, Obsessed with Pipework, Perverse, Poetry News and The Rialto. Competition successes include being longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, shortlisted three times for the Bridport Prize, coming second in the Café Writers and Buxton Competitions, and winning the Poetry Society Hamish Canham Prize, the Edward Thomas Prize, and the Newcastle University Chancellor’s Prize two years running. Her debut pamphlet 'Fledglings' was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2016, and her first collection 'Crippled' in 2025. She holds the Poetry School/Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry with Distinction, and her Substack, 'The Deeper Read', close reads a contemporary poem each week, with an emphasis on independent presses and emerging voices.

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