Adam Lowe is an award-winning
writer, publisher and creative producer from Leeds, who now lives in
Manchester. In 2013, he was LGBT History Month Poet Laureate and
Manchester Pride Writer in Residence. He has written a ‘national anthem’ poem for the Cook Islands to be performed at Headingley Carnegie
Stadium for the Rugby World Cup.
Adam is currently writing a solo show for Contact’s ShortCuts and runs the LGBT emerging writers
programme, Young Enigma, supported by Commonword and Arts Council
England.
Adam was selected as Yorkshire’s poet for the Olympics.
His 2012 collection, Precocious (Dog Horn Publishing, 2012), was a
reader nomination for the Guardian First Book Award.
In 2012, he
was project manager and producer for To Market, To Market, a
site-specific literature project in Leeds Kirkgate Market.
In
spring 2012, he recorded a specially-commissioned poem for Channel 4’s
4thought.tv programme (which aired in July) and wrote a poem for the
National Lottery’s plot in the Olympic Park.
In 2011 he was attached writer at West Yorkshire Playhouse, funded by BBC Writersroom.
He was also 2011 writer in residence at Zion Arts Centre in Hulme,
Manchester, and completed an attachment with Conor McKee Productions and Wyllie Longmore at the Royal Exchange Theatre.
He was one of the 2010 young writers in residence at the I Love West Leeds Arts Festival.
He has performed and appeared in a wide range of settings. He has appeared in print and online in such anthologies and magazines as Word Riot,
Unlikely Stories, Flicker and Spark, Chorus: A Literary Mixtape (ed. by
Saul Williams), The Cadaverine, Chimeraworld, Leeds Guide, WAMACK,
Saucytooth’s, Kaleidotrope, Cake, Wattpad, Tangled Roots, Vada Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph's LGBT History Month Magazine, PoetCasting.co.uk,
and Ex Plus Ultra. Adam’s academic writing has appeared at eSharp
(University of Glasgow). In 2009 his debut novella, Troglodyte Rose, was also released in limited edition hardback by Cadaverine Publications.
His agent is Christopher Gordon Kelso.
He has received four
Lambda Literary Award nominations in both poetry and prose. Numerous
titles he has published have made longlists and shortlists. In 2011, he
was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in Best New Writing. In 2011,
he won a Community History Award for his residency at Zion Arts Centre.
