Jay Anthony Hulme is a transgender

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and author from

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, in the UK.

Career

In 2015 Hulme won SLAMbassadors UK, the UK's biggest youth poetry slam, run by Joelle Taylor on behalf of the Poetry Society. That year of the slam was judged by

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and held in the

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at The Southbank Centre. In 2017 he competed in the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam and later in the year was featured on the BBC Asian Network's Spoken Word Showcase. Hulme's poetry features in a number of solo poetry collections, as well as anthologies published by small presses, such as Otter-Barry Books, and larger publishers, such as

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and Ladybird Books. In 2021, Hulme was appointed poet in residence at

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. He also serves as the Churchwarden for St Nicholas Church, Leicester, UK.

Personal life

Born on 28 January 1997 in Leicester, Jay Hulme was educated at Stonehill High School and Longslade Community College in Birstall, Leicestershire. In 2018 he graduated from the University of the West of England with a BA(Hons) in English and Journalism. He did not believe in God before having a supposed encounter with the divine. He converted to

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in 2019.

Bibliography

*''The Prospect of Wings'' (2015) *''A Heartful of Fist'' (2016, Out-Spoken Press) *''City Boys Should Not Feed Horses'' (2016) *''Rising Stars'' (2017, Otter-Barry Books) *''Clouds Cannot Cover Us'' (2019, Troika Books) *''The Book of Queer Prophets: 21 Writers on Sexuality and Religion'' (2020, Harper Collins) *''Here Be Monsters'' (2021, Pop Up) *''The Backwater Sermons'' (2021,

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) *''My Own Way'' (2021, Quarto) *''The Vanishing Song'' (2023, Canterbury Press)

Award nominations

* Carnegie Medal (2021)

References

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