On July 28th 2024, Julie-Ann launched a new pamphlet of poems about her beloved Orkney Isles.

The Zoom launch was attended by 30 people, and the new poems were very well received.

Copies of Hame can be obtained directly from Julie-Ann, or from the publisher at https://ninepens.co.uk/shop/.

One Hand Clapping

On the 10th of May, Julie-Ann’s remarkable new collection, Inside Out, was launched at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin.

The launch event was sold out, with over 60 people coming to hear Julie-Ann read from the collection and sign copies afterwards.

Inside Out describes Julie-Ann’s journey through a chronic illness, Functional Neurological Disorder and is a moving and uplifting testament to the resilience of the human body and spirit.

It was shortlisted for the 2023 Welsh International Poetry Collection award.

Copies of Inside Out can be obtained directly from Julie-Ann, or from Turas Press.

One Hand Clapping
Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Ignis Aurum Probat’ was awarded first prize for a single poem in the 2022 Grey Hen Press Poetry competition
 
Full results can be seen here:
One Hand Clapping
Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Castle O’Burrian’, will appear in the South Poetry Magazine, Issue 66.
Read it here:
One Hand Clapping
‘Babysitters’, another life writing piece by Julie-Ann, is published in the Summer 2022 edition of Shorts Magazine.
 
Read it here:
One Hand Clapping
Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Letters’ is published in the ‘Haunting’ issue (37) of Popshot Quarterly Magazine
 
 
See here:
One Hand Clapping
Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Hether Blether’ is published in the 200th anniversary edition of the Orbis International Literary Journal
 
 
One Hand Clapping
‘Twins’, another life writing piece by Julie-Ann, was published in the Spring 2022 edition of Shorts Magazine.
 
Read it here:
One Hand Clapping
Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Lipstick’ is included in Issue 71 of Ofi Press.
 
See here: Ofi Press
One Hand Clapping
Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Evening Out’ is included in the Christmas 2021 edition of One Hand Clapping.
 
One Hand Clapping
Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Harry Garrioch’ is included in the Winter 2021 edition of The Phare Magazine
 
 
“A Cafe at the Top of a Hill”, a life writing piece by Julie-Ann, is included in volume 2 of SHORTS magazine, available from Autumn 2021
 
Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Mudlarks’ is included in this anthology of poems about rivers, published by Grey Hen Press.
 
More details, including how to buy a copy, here: https://www.greyhenpress.com/books/
Julie-Ann reads her poem ‘Willow Warbler’, specially commissioned for the Strokestown Online Poetry Anthology, in this video.

 

Art work by Frances Crowe: Tapestry Celebrating safe travel, good health and a long life based on Navajo symbols.

A wonderful review of Exposure by Philip Lyons in Raceme, Issue 10, autumn/winter: ‘Rowell is an outstanding poet of place.’
 
‘Exposure has a number of meanings, but it’s rare to find a poet exposing his or her own vulnerability with such forensic honesty. Think Plath without the white heat.’
 
‘Buy this book by a poet who by rights should be more widely known, and read her finely crafted poems in which a whole landscape comes to life.’
 

Forward Prize book of Poetry

The poem Fata Morgana from Exposure is Highly Commended in the Forward Prize 20/21

Forward Prize anthology available from: https://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry/

Julie-Ann’s poem ‘Naked’ was Highly Commended in the Bridport Poetry Prize 2020.
The anthology is available from:
 
 
Mimi Khalvati: ‘Naked’: Despite its difficult subject matter, this poem is written in a very relaxed vernacular, convincing
in its familiarity with FND and the explosive daily life in the centre. A poem that poignantly enhances our
understanding’.
I have a poem in a new chapbook published by the Scottish Writers’ Centre, City, Town and Village, available from:
 
I have a poem in this anthology published by Grey Hen Press which keeps in mind women who have left their mark on the world. Available from:
 
 
 
50p from the sale of each book goes to Womankind Worldwide.