Shortlisted, twice, for the Genesis Emerging Writers Programme, 2024 & 2025
Longlisted, 2025.
“… poetry’s ancient and original condition — in the voice, on the tongue — connects with our digital world.”
anthony joseph
Live Canon International Poetry Prize
Migraine Bulletins published in the longlist anthology, 2024.
“…bristling with extraordinary writing!”
dr HELEN EASTMAN
Pass shortlisted for Aesthetica’s Creative Writing Award 2023 and published in the Creative Writing Anthology 2024.
“This collection is a celebration of innovation … commending writers for their use of form, concept and technique …. connect[ing] readers to a profound sense of self as well as their shared humanity.”
Aesthetica Magazine.
Courage is the thing with feathers
Kitty’s radio play had a scratch reading at Riverside Studios, 2024.
The Manchester Minyanaires
According to orthodox Jewish law, ten men are required to speak prayers in public. There are no rules for women speaking poems…
An intimate evening of poetry and conversation with Jill Abram, Aviva Dautch and Kitty Martin.
Kingmakers and ectopic published in Poetry Salzburg Review, 2023.
Longlisted, 2023.
Passing Through
a poetry sound installation for A Space for Sound, January 30th – February 5th 2023.
displaced people rebuilding lives in a new country then and now
Arising from the oral history collection at Manchester Jewish Museum, six soundscape poems about migration and resettlement, collaged and spliced together, play at 10 minute intervals. The cycle repeats on the hour.
Form Tutor’s Report published in Tentacular, 2023.
Kitty’s poem Pass won Imtiaz Dhaker’s Inaugural Chancellor’s Poetry Prize.
Pass
is published in The North, Issue 68.
Kitty has a Masters in Writing Poetry.
She is working on a collection of poems, and a play for voices.