Sammy Weaver reads for Poets & Players at the IABF on 22 April 2023
Channel: Poets & Players
Date: 2023-04-29

Sammy Weaver is a poet from Hay-on-Wye, currently based in West Yorkshire. Her debut pamphlet, Angola, America (Seren), won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize 2021.  Her poems have appeared in The Moth, The Irish Times, Mslexia, The Island Review and Anthropocene, and have been anthologised widely. In 2020, she won The Moth Magazine’s Nature Writing competition. In 2021, she was shortlisted for a Northern Writers’ Award for poetry and Nine Arches Press’ Primers scheme.  She has a Creative Writing MA from Manchester Metropolitan University.