About

Amy Louise Wyatt is a poet, artist and lecturer from Bangor, Northern Ireland.  Her work is widely published in Irish and international journals and anthologies.  Amy was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award in both 2018 and 2020, and also longlisted in 2019.  She was shortlisted for The Dempsey and Windle National Poetry Day Competition 2019; a finalist in The National Funeral Services Poetry Competition in 2017; and was nominated for 2019 Best of the Net.  Amy won the inaugural Poetrygram Prize in 2019.  She has performed widely at festivals throughout Ireland, on BBC Arts Extra and for local television. Amy is currently completing the second year of her MA in Creative Writing with Open University.  She is the founding editor of The Bangor Literary Journal.  ‘A Language I Understand’ is her debut poetry pamphlet. https://amylouisewyatt.com/

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