Julie Laing (she/her) is a writer and artist from Glasgow. Her debut pamphlet, the edge of rhizome, was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2025 and her first collection of visual poetry, some possible endings & beginnings, is forthcoming in 2026 with Art Riot Press. She has been widely published and won the 2023 William Bonar Poetry Prize, the Wigtown Poetry Prize 2022 and ‘livestream, hope street’ was selected as one of Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems 2022. Her 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 sessions and readings at 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.