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Thomas Stewart (he/him) is a Welsh writer based in Edinburgh. In 2021 he was awarded a New Writers Award from Scottish Book Trust. empire of dirt, his debut poetry pamphlet, a Poetry Book Society selection, was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2019. Based on a true story, his second pamphlet, will be published in November 2022 by fourteen publishing.
He was highly commended in the Verve 2020 Poetry Competition. His poetry has been included in the following anthologies: Creating in Crisis (Polari Press, 2021), We've Done Nothing Wrong, We've Nothing To Hide (Verve Poetry Press, 2020) and Best Scottish Poems 2019.
His work has been published in Poetry Wales,Butcher’s Dog, fourteen poems, The Amsterdam Quarterly, And Other Poems, The Glasgow Review of Books, The Stockholm Review of Literature, among others. He was a writer in residence at Arteles, Finland.
He is the host of Lovecrumbs Readings and can be found at Twitter: @ThomasStewart08
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