Welcome to Will Kemp Online

Will Kemp is a writer of poems, short stories and novels. He is Assistant Editor at Valley Press, teaches Creative Writing at York University, and judges both the Keats-Shelley Prize and Young Romantics Prize. 

He has won the Keats-Shelley Prize, Cinnamon Short Story Competition, Debut Collection Award, Cinnamon Pamphlet Competition and Envoi International. He has also been well-placed in many other prizes.

His publications include four collections of poetry and short stories, two award-winning pamphlets and 450 pieces in Aesthetica, The Guardian, Iota, Magma, The North, Orbis, Poetry News, Rialto, The Times and others.

He has studied Writing A Novel with the Faber Academy, and gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arvon Foundation. He is currently working on two novels and his next poetry collection, In Another Life.