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Marcelle Newbold is a Writer, Tutor, and Editor based in Cardiff, Wales
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An award-winning, published poet, her work focuses on place and inheritance

Bridport Prize shortlisted, Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated, runner-up in the Walk.Listen.Create writing competition, and winner of the Poetry in the Arcades competition, Marcelle's poems have been published in online and print magazines including Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Atrium, Black Iris, iamb, and Fly on the Wall Press, and in recent print anthologies by Black Bough Poetry, Maytree Press, Wild Pressed Books, Icefloe Press, Broken Spine, and Indigo Dreams. Her hybrid art/poem mini-pamphlet 'City Companions' in collaboration with Karen Pierce-Gonzalez published by Hedgehog Press is forthcoming in 2025.

Marcelle's preoccupations include the intersection between nature, the places we inhabit and self; domestication; legacy and inheritance; and the spaces between. Her anthology work includes architecture, Dylan Thomas, deep time, grief and loss, and seascapes. She has been a committee member for the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics since 2022, and is contributing editor at The Winged Moon literature magazine.

She has been a spoken word headliner for Voices on the Bridge, North Bay Poetics, and Ye Olde Murenger Poetry night; interviewed for Just Another Poet, Eat the Storms Podcast and Fevers of the Mind; and a feature poet for Iamb and Black Bough Silver branch series.

She was managing editor of Nightingale & Sparrow literary press, a guest editor for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, Feral, and Black Bough, competition poetry judge for Rare Swan Press, and Cardiff Writers Circle, and was the coordinator for Gloucester Poetry Festival. Marcelle has given talks and workshops to local schools, at the Talking Place symposium, and for local groups, and has attended a Ty Newydd Masterclass, selected by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke.

Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect, and now tutors at the Welsh School of Architecture and works in community engagement. Her poem 'Arcade hopping' is on permanent display in Cardiff City Centre.

Linktree: marcellenewbold Instagram and X: @marcellenewbold Bluesky marcellenewbold.bsky.social

100 word bio:

Marcelle's writing explores place and inheritance. Bridport Prize shortlisted, nominated for BoTN and Pushcart, her poems have been published by Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Atrium, Iamb, Fly on the Wall Press, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams and others. She is a committee member for the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, contributing editor at The Winged Moon, and has been a guest editor for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, Feral, and Black Bough. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect. @marcellenewbold on Linktree, Instagram, X and Bluesky.

50 word bio:

Marcelle's writing explores place and inheritance. Bridport Prize shortlisted, her poems have been published by Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams and others. She is contributing editor at The Winged Moon literature magazine. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect. @marcellenewbold

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Publications:

Hybrid art/poem mini-pamphlet 'City Companions' in collaboration with Karen Pierce-Gonzalez, is forthcoming in 2025 from Hedgehog Press.

Anthologies, Journals and Magazines see publications.

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Competitions:

Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poets Development Scheme 2024 - longlist

Cambrian Mountains Society poetry competition 2023 - highly commended - 'Day trip to the mountains'

Best of the Net 2023 - nominated - by Black Bough Poetry for ‘With my last exhale’, published as part of the Silver Branch Features Writer Series

Bridport Prize 2022 - shortlisted - for 'Dad was a typesetter'

Walk.Listen.Create ‘Walking Home’ writing competition, 2022 - runner-up - for 'Returning'

Pushcart Prize 2020 - nominated - by Black Bough Poetry for ‘Precious’, micro poem published in the the Underland themed ‘Deep Time Anthologies’