Marcelle's writing explores 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, her poems have been published in online and print magazines including Poetry Wales, Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Atrium, Black Iris, iamb, Gone Lawn, Full House Literary, Paragraph Planet, Gothic Keats Press, The Passionfruit Review and Fly on the Wall Press, and in recent print anthologies by Black Bough Poetry, Maytree Press, Wild Pressed Books, Icefloe Press, The 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, A Thousand Shades of Green 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.
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100 word bio:
Marcelle's writing explores place and inheritance. Bridport Prize shortlisted, nominated for BoTN and Pushcart, her poems have been published by Poetry Wales, 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 Poetry Wales Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams and others. She is contributing editor at The Winged Moon. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect. @marcellenewbold
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Competitions
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’
Poetry in the Arcades competition, 2020 - winner - ‘Arcade Hopping’ poem on permanent display within Morgan Arcade in Cardiff City Centre
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Contributing Editor
The Winged Moon, 2024-
Issues: hinterland, you light up the north at night (substack edition), biophilia
Managing Editor
Nightingale & Sparrow literary press, 2021- 2023
Issues: sakura, crystalline, starlight, submerged, hygge, melody, poetry, schoolhouse, woodland, blizzard, growth, harmony, l'appel du vide, love
Guest Editor
The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, 5th anthology, Feb 2025
Black Bough Poetry, 'In flight' edition, April 2024
Cambrian Mountains Society, Poetry Competition Anthology, February 2024
Feral: a Journal of Poetry and Art, 'Hunger' Issue, June 2022
Co-editor
Echoes, Poetic Letters by Alan Parry, Rare Swan Press, 2022
Ceiling Fan by Kari Flickinger, Rare Swan Press, 2022
Pandemic Anthology, Yarnwhispering, 2020
Competition judge
Cardiff Writers' Circle poetry competition, March 2024
Competition judge for Stories from the eyes of an owl, Rare Swan Press, 2021
Talks
Lisvane Community Library, reintroduction to poetry, January 2025
Rhiwbeina Library Author Series, 'poetry, place and publishing', October 2024
Rhiwbeina Primary, Year 3 poetry workshops - the long thin poem, October 2024
Cardiff Writers' Circle, 'tips for success: poetry competition entries', February 2024
North Bay Poetics, 'prose poetry', July 2023
Rhiwbeina Primary, Year 4 poetry workshops - haibun
Talking Place: a symposium, presentation of paper on urban micro-navigation, July 2022
Cardiff Writers' Circle, 'how to get into print: being a literary citizen', workshop 2022
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Headliner /featured poet:
Cheltenham Poetry Festival, online, date tbc
Si Griffiths, online book launch (not recorded)
Last Saturday Poetry Readings, online (not recorded)
Voices on the Bridge, Clwb y Bont (not recorded)
North Bay Poetics, prose poetry event (not recorded)
Ye Olde Murenger Poetry night (not recorded)
Interviews:
Just Another Poet Interview, youtube (video)
Eat the Storms Podcast, Season 3, Episode 3 (audio)
Fevers of the Mind ‘Quick 9’ Interview (article)
Features:
A Thousand Shades of Green (audio)
Black Bough Poetry, Silver branch series, writer of the month (article and audio)
Iamb, wave 8 (article and audio)
Deck the Storms Festive Poetry Party (video)
Wales Arts Review, Cardiff City of Arcade Poets (audio)
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.
soundcloud: marcellenewbold