Welcome to Will Kemp Online

Will Kemp is a writer of poems, short stories and novels. He is Assistant Editor at Valley Press, and judges both the Keats-Shelley Prize and Young Romantics Prize.  

He has won the Keats-Shelley Prize, Cinnamon Short Story Competition, Debut Collection Award, Coast to Coast Prize, Cinnamon Pamphlet Competition and Envoi International. He has also been well-placed in many others. 

His publications include four collections of poems and short stories, two award-winning pamphlets and 500 pieces in Aesthetica, The Guardian, Iota, Magma, The North, Orbis, Poetry News, Rialto, The Times and others. 

He has taught Creative Writing at York University and studied Writing A Novel with the Faber Academy, and gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arvon Foundation. 

He is currently working on his debut novel, The Light on the Water at Rhenen, and a further collection of poems, In Another Life.