Oct 1-22
Online
Online Writing Month (daytime): Poetry and Memoir
Shaping lived experiences into writing that connects
Gwyneth Lewis
Romalyn Ante
Romalyn Ante
Romalyn Ante FRSL is an award-winning Filipino-born British poet and editor. She currently sits on the editorial board for Poetry London.
Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second collection, AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024), was awarded the Arthur Welton Award, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and The Observer Poetry Book of the Month. Her debut novel, The Left-Behind Child, will be published by Chatto in July 2026.
Romalyn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a lifetime honour that includes ‘the best writers in or from the UK today’. In addition to her literary pursuits, she has years of experience as a specialist nurse, CBT therapist, and clinical lead within the NHS.