Ruth McIlroy
She has been commended or highly commended in the Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition, the Lancaster Literature Festival Competition, the Ver Poets Open Poetry Competition, the Winchester Poetry Festival Competition and the Templar Iota Shot Competition. In 2015 she was highly commended in the Philip Larkin East Riding Poetry Competition, and in 2017 she gained second place in the York Literature Festival Poetry Competition. She read at the launch of The Poetry Review Spring Issue in April 2018.