Zillah Bowes

Zillah Bowes is an artist, filmmaker and writer. Her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies including Wasafiri, Mslexia, The North and Poetry Wales. She has won the Wordsworth Trust Prize and Poems on the Buses Competition, and was shortlisted for the Ginkgo Prize/AONB Best Poem of Landscape, Manchester Poetry Prize and Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. She has received the Royal Holloway Emerging Writer Fellowship and a RSL Literature Matters Award.

Zillah was a Hay Festival Writer at Work and received a Literature Wales Bursary and Creative Wales Award in poetry. She also works with spoken and written poetry as an artist including her film work Allowed, which was listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize and won Zealous Amplify: Environment, and her digital work Gwawr / Dawn, which won Honorable Mention in the Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize. She was awarded the Future Wales Fellowship 2023-2025.