Andrew McMillan has won the inaugural Polari Prize
McMillan’s intimate poetry collection, Playtime (Cape Poetry), scooped the inaugural £2,000 Polari Prize beating other shortlisted authors including Kate Bradbury, Patrick Gale and Sarah Moss.
Other winners included Angela Chadwick with her highly acclaimed, dystopian thriller XX (Dialogue Books) which picked up the £1,000 Polari First Book Prize for best debut.
Read more about the awards here.
Andrew McMillan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Andrew McMillan joined the Manchester Writing School team in September 2017. He was born in South Yorkshire in 1988; his debut collection physical was the first ever poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. The collection also won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, a Somerset Maugham Award (2016), an Eric Gregory Award (2016) and a Northern Writers’ award (2014). It was shortlisted the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2016, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Polari First Book Prize. It was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Autumn 2015. Most recently physical has been translated into Norwegian.
