Julie Laing (she/her) is a writer and artist from Glasgow. Her first poetry collection, some possible endings & beginnings, was published in 2026 with Art Riot Press and her debut pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, came out with Red Squirrel Press in 2025. She has been widely published and won the 2023 William Bonar Poetry Prize and The Wigtown Poetry Prize 2022. Her poem ‘livestream, hope street’ was selected as one of Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems 2022. Julie's photography was exhibited at her 2024 solo show, low-sodium, night frequencies, with Edinburgh’s Agitate Gallery. Other works, including poem-sculptures, have been included in group shows in the UK and Singapore including Wasps Creative Academy (2025), The Revelator Open the Doors, The Scottish Landscape Awards (2024) and Street Level Open (2022). Julie has delivered performances and sessions with The Royal Scottish Academy, The Revelator art space, StAnza International Poetry Festival, Push the Boat Out and Edinburgh Photographic Society. She was mentored through the St Mungo Mirrorball’s Clydebuilt 13 verse apprenticeship scheme and co-hosts off-page visual poetry programme and exhibitions. Until 2024 she coordinated Round Table crit group in association with Street Level Photoworks. More detail in her CV.