Meet Kate Bramhall, winner of our 2024 poetry competition with her poem Papa, which can now be read on our winner's blog page. As part of the prize, we want to promote new writers, and as such we chat to Kate about her writing journey, aspirations, next steps, love for literacy, and the difference it can make in people's lives.

Learn about Kate's work in prisons, transforming outlooks through poetry, and how educating herself in Creative Writing in her twenties changed Kate's life, and how that is still evolving to this day.

Get to know Kate better with our New2theScene presenter and hear about the struggles she's encountered in childhood, her struggles to understand her place in society, barriers she's faced such as racism, and how her passion for literature and reading has been a constant source of support.

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