Lydia Towsey is the chair of the rethinkyourmind poetry assesor panel. She is a poet and performer with a Masters in Creative Writing.
Her previous commissions include: Poet in the City’s, Spoken Word All Stars Tour; Beyond Words — U.K. tour of four South African poets (Apples and Snakes) and Sole2Soul (University of Leicester.)
In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize. In 2013 she performed at London’s 100 Club and was featured by The London Magazine.
In 2014 she UK toured ‘Three the Hard Way’ alongside Jean Binta Breeze and Alison Dunne.
She is forthcoming in Bloodaxe Books’, Raving Beauties anthology & Candlestick Press’ ‘10 Poems about Knitting’. Her full length collection, ‘The Venus Papers’ will be published by Burning Eye Books in 2015.
Lydia is Arts in Health Coordinator at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Chair/Compere of WORD! – the longest running poetry night in the Midlands (www.wordpoetry.eu) and Chair of Brightsparks (www.brightsparks.wordpress.com).
