Biography

Long bio

Georgina Wilding was crowned Nottingham’s first Young Poet Laureate 2017 – 2019, and went on to accept the prestigious role of Creative Director of Nottingham Poetry Festival until early 2021. In 2015 she set up the poetry publishing house, Mud Press, and in the same year graduated from the University of Nottingham with a first class degree in Creative and Professional Writing.  

She spent the first five years of her career writing and performing as a member of the poetry collective ‘The Mouthy Poets’ and has gone on to perform her work both nationally and internationally. Georgina has featured at events such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, International Poetry Day:Granada, Sofar Sounds, Bright Spark, Hit the Ode, Straatstheatre Braunschweig and Off Milosz festival in Poland. As well as this, she has been commissioned by organisations such as The Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio Nottingham to write and perform, and has been invited to teach poetry for programmes such as the City Arts Refugee Forum collaboration, First Story, the National Literacy Trust, and Redhill Academy's specialisms week. 

In 2019 Georgina was awarded a place on the prestigious Krakow City of Literature residency programme, and in the same year was commended as one of the Nottingham 30 under 30 winners for her work in poetry.

She has been published in literary journals such as The Rialto and Kontent, in magazines such as Pussy Magic, Rebelotte and Left Lion, and in anthologies such as Peace Builders Small Acts of Kindness and Jubilee Press’ The ‘art of Nottingham. In 2020 Georgina was invited to the Apples and Snakes BlackBox series to contribute her work Becoming a street lamp, and was also invited to write a piece on the Coronavirus pandemic for Manchester Writing School’s Write We Are Now project in the same year.

She is incredibly proud to announce the release of her debut poetry collection, Hag Stone, out with Verve Poetry Press in 2022, as well as her recent long-listing in the OutSpoken prize for poetry performance category.