Writing

My work spans poetry, plays, interactive fiction, and non-fiction. I was the winner of the Creative Future Writer's Award for poetry (2024), and a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. I was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize (2025) and the Hastings Book Festival Poetry Prize (2024), and longlisted for Nine Arches Press' Primers (2025). In 2023, I was commissioned by Chronic Insanity's Digital Literary Department. My work has been featured on BBC Upload and BBC Radio Oxford as well as in the publications listed below.

I'm an experienced facilitator, having delivered writing workshops for Creative Future, Fusion Arts, Oxford Brookes University, the Ashmolean Museum, and People's Theatre Collective. I've run 'well-led and gentle open space[s]… with everyone given time and care' for young people, homeless and vulnerably housed people, and those living with mental illness. I founded Getting Started with Poetry, Oxford Poetry Library's flagship workshop series, and facilitated monthly sessions for those new to writing poetry from 2022-2023. I remain part of the OPL volunteer coordination team. I'm always excited to facilitate more workshops!

You can contact me here: hello@mayalittle.co.uk and read a full list of publications below: