Colette Bryce is a critically acclaimed poet from Derry, Northern Ireland.
Career
Bryce lived in London until 2002 when she moved to Scotland. She moved to the North East of England in 2005. Bryce was a Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee from 2003–2005, and a North East Literary Fellow at the (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) from 2005–2007.
Bryce lives in Newcastle upon Tyne and works as a freelance writer and editors
She was the Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2009-2013. Bryce"s first published work was included in the 1995 volume Anvil New Poets, educated
Achievements
She received the Cholmondely Award for achievement and distinction in poetry in 2010. That year she won an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection The Heel of Bernadette, published in 2000 by Picador, won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and the Strong Award for new Irish poets.
In 2003, Bryce won the National Poetry Competition for her poem, The Full Indian Rope Trick, which became the title-poem of her 2004 collection, short-listed for the TeamSpeak Eliot Award the following year.
Her third collection Self-Portrait in the Dark was published in 2008 and shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award in 2009. lieutenant includes the poem Self-Portrait in a Broken Wing-Mirror that won the Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 2007.
Her 2014 collection ″The Whole & Rain-domed Universe″, which draws on the author’s experience of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, was awarded a special Christopher Ewart-Biggs Award in memory of Seamus Heaney. The book was also short-listed for Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection, The Costa Poetry Award, and The Roehampton Poetry Prize.
Cholmondeley Award; Eric Gregory Award
the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize; Costa Poetry Award; Forward Prize; Poetry Now Award; the Cholmondely Award; Eric Gregory Award; National Poetry Competition
