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Juliette Morton

JLM Morton is a writer, celebrant and creative producer. Her poetry has featured on BBC6 Music and appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Rialto, Magma, Mslexia, The London Magazine, Poetry Birmingham, The Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere. 

Her prose writing has won the Laurie Lee Prize, been longlisted for the Nan Shepherd prize and extracts from her nonfiction Tenderfoot have been published in Caught by the River, Oxford Review of Books and Elsewhere: A Journal of Place.  

Juliette is the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer and Poetry Archive Worldview Prizes and she is twice a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her debut poetry collection Red Handed, was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and a Poetry Society Book of the Year (Broken Sleep Books, 2024). 

She teaches for Poetry School, Poetry Society, Women Poets Network and is the founding Director of Dialect Writers Collective. Her second poetry collection, Borrowed Ground, is forthcoming in August 2026 and her debut nonfiction in 2027. 

Find her online: www.jlmmorton.com