Paul Stephenson

Paul’s first collection Hard Drive was published by Carcanet in 2023 and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and Polari Book Prize.

He has three pamphlets:

Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), which was a winner of the Poetry Business book and pamphlet competition 2014/15 judged by Billy Collins,

The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), written after the Paris terrorist attacks,

Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017).

Paul has an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the Manchester Writing School and completed the Poetry Business Writing School. He also took part in the Jerwood/Arvon mentoring scheme and the Aldeburgh Eight.

Paul co-edited the ‘Europe’ and recent ‘Ownership’ issues of Magma Poetry.

He helps programme the Poetry in Aldeburgh festival. He lives between Cambridge and Brussels.

Website: paulstep.com / Instagram: paulstep456 / X: @stephenson_pj