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Meet the Judges of 2010
Winners of this year's competitions will be notified by 12th September. The winning entries will be publicly announced by the judges at this year's Ted Hughes Festival in October run by The Elmet Trust. Tickets for these events will go on sale in September. Details of all of our October events will be published soon...
Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock is judging the Elmet Poetry Prize competition for adults. She was born in New Zealand. She spent the war years in England, returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. She emigrated to Britain in 1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979.
She was Northern Arts Literary Fellow in 1979-81, living in Newcastle, becoming a freelance writer after her return to London. She received an OBE in 1996, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006 for Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe, 2000), which was followed ten years later by Dragon Talk (Bloodaxe, 2010).
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin Crossley-Holland is judging this year's Ted Hughes Young Poet's Award children's competition. He is a well-known children's writer, poet and translator from Anglo-Saxon, and a reteller of myth, legend and folktale. He won the Carnegie Medal for Storm while his Beowulf with Charles Keeping is a contemporary classic.
Kevin is the author of the award-winning Arthur trilogy, now translated into 24 languages, and of its successor, Gatty's Tale (shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal). He has recently published The Hidden Roads, his memoir of childhood, and next year Enitharmon will publish his new and selected poems The Mountains of Norfolk.
Kevin makes many primary and secondary school visits each year to conduct poetry and writing workshops. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and patron of Publishing House Me and the Society for Storytelling, and was shortlisted last year for the position of Children's Laureate.
Visit Kevin's website for more information