Mandy Coe's poetry has appeared on BBC radio and television (Woman's Hour, Poetry Please and CBeebies) as well as the Radio Times and The Guardian.
She was a contributor to the A&C Black's Poetry Writers' Yearbook 2007, the Children's Laureate's Website and the 2008 Booktrust's Bookweek Pack.
Prizes and Awards
Mandy has received writer's bursaries from Arts Council England and was awarded a Hawthornden Fellow in 2005. She has won a number of prizes including the Ilkley and the Ted Waters Memorial Prize.
In October 2008, Judges Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker and Gillian Clarke, announced Mandy Coe and Lesley Saunders (pictured right) to be joint-winners of the £10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize. This new international award, organised by The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, was celebrated as part of the Manchester Literary Festival.
As well as reading her work at venues throughout the UK, Mandy also works with young people as a visiting author in schools and colleges. She delivers INSET for teachers and workshops for adults and has worked with arts projects such as TATE Liverpool, The Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican. Mandy also works as a free-lance educationalist with the Children's Poetry Bookshelf and for National Association of Writers in Education.. Her work with schools has been featured in the TES.
Mandy's work for children appears in anthologies by Hodder, Wayland, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education and Bloomsbury.
To enquire about bookings for readings, workshops, school visits or readings, please send email via the contacts page.
Comments on Mandy's work:
"Thank you for a great evening. You bring poetry alive and deliver the excitement it holds… Immensely enjoyable!" Salisbury House.
"Mandy Coe's poems make us see things: they transfigure that world-around-us we think we know but really only half-see." Matt Simpson
"One of the best nights we've ever had. You made us laugh and listen to poetry in a new way." The UK Speech and Drama Conference, Liverpool.