"Her voice thunders out like a force of nature."
Rachel Trezise
WHO?
NATALIE ANN HOLBOROW is a Swansea-born writer of poetry and fiction and instructional designer. In 2015, she won both the Terry Hetherington Award and the Robin Reeves Prize, and in 2016 was named as runner-up in the Wales PENCymru New Voices Award. She has been commended and shortlisted for various others including the Bridport Prize and Hippocrates Prize.
Holborow’s work has recently appeared in The Stinging Fly and the New Welsh Review. She is currently working on her first novel with the aid of a Literature Wales bursary. And Suddenly You Find Yourself is her first poetry collection.
WHAT I DO
I am available for readings, events/festivals, creative writing workshops, article commissions and freelance content/proofreading. I have a track record of major international clients for content,instructional design, copywriting, editing and proofreading.
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As co-editor of social media outlet The Siren, our team won Best Student Media in Wales 2014.
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And Suddenly You Find Yourself
OUT MARCH 2017 (£8.99, Parthian)
"From mythical heroes to domestic truths, from the monologue to the confessional, from gritty Swansea streets to tea parties in Wonderland, Natalie Ann Holborow’s compelling debut covers impressive imaginative and geographical distances. And Suddenly You Find Yourself is a collection which sees the darkness in fairy tales and the beauty in suffering. At the heart of its shifting subjects, we find a distinctive voice, great formal control and, most importantly, unforgettable images. The deeply important subject matter, in the hands of this lyrical and erudite writer, creates a powerful music. Here are the songs of being young, talented and – sometimes – lost, waking in your early twenties to find ‘your teenage years dead on the rug.’ And here’s the best word to describe these poems, a word that isn’t used anywhere near often enough to describe great poems: they’re thrilling."
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— Jonathan Edwards
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