Start Your Engines
Poetry Wales Award 2025 judge Jeremy Dixon reflects on what he learned about how to win a poetry competition – and how it’s not too different to RuPaul’s Drag Race…
Author: Jeremy Dixon
Jeremy Dixon (he/him) is a prize-winning poet, editor and workshop leader. He is the author of the pamphlet In Retail (Arachne Press, 2019). His first full collection A Voice Coming From Then (Arachne Press, 2021) won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2022. He is co-editor of the anthology JOY//US: Poems of Queer Joy (Arachne Press, 2024). His new pamphlet of Polari-inspired poems Bold in the Life was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2025.