Scott Elder
| Address: | Queuille, France. |
Scott Elder studied at the American University in Paris and the University of Puget Sound. He lived as a street musician in Paris and London, then worked as a mime artist in France and Portugal before taking monastic vows and spending twelve years in retreat in a Buddhist hermitage in France. He now lives in Auvergne with his three teenage children. Since 2014 his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rialto, The London Magazine, The New Welsh Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Scotland, The Moth Magazine, Wild Court, Southword Journal, Abridged, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg, The Interpreter's House, Cyphers, The Alchemy Spoon, The High Window, Here Comes Everyone, Finished Creatures, Nimrod International, The Antigonish Review, The French Literary Review, Crannog Magazine, Erbacce, Big Muddy, Dream Catcher, Acta Victoriana, Quiddity International, Cake, Sentinel Quarterly, The Journal, The Poetry Shed, Bonnie's Crew, Twist in Time, Eye Flash, Obsessed with Pipework, Ekphrastic Review, Three Drops From a Cauldron, Riggwelter, Morphog, Black Bough Poetry, The Friday Poem (online), Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse (Emma Press), Anthologies of poems from the Wild Atlantic Words, Poetry Space, Frosted Fire , Arts University of Bournemouth, Aesthetica Creative Writing/Poetry competitions, An Aitiuil Anthology, Iamb~Poetry Seen and Heard, Irisi Magazine, York Literary Review, Steel Jackdaw Magazine, Amethyst Review, The Frogmore Papers, Ink Sweat & Tears, Black Nore, Dodging the Rain, The Lake, The Seventh Quarry, Blithe Spirit (haiku), The Cormorant Broadsheet, The Fenland Poetry Journal, Dust Poetry, Clarion, Eche Poetry, The Storms Journal, Poetry Bus Magazine , Sunday Mornings at the River, The Belfast Review, The Madrid Review, and Echidna Tracks (haiku). He was a runner-up in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2016 and among the winners of the Poetry on the Lake Competition 2021, the Gloucestershire Open Poetry Prize 2021, 2022, the Teignmouth Poetry Competition 2019, the Guernsey International Poetry Competition 2018, 2025, and the Southport Writers' Circle Competition 2017. His work has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2022, highly commended in the Bristol Poetry Prize 2018, Poetry on the Lake International Competition 2018, Buzzwords Poetry Competition 2018, the Brian Dempsey Memorial Competition 2017, Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Prize 2024, Maria Edgeworth Poetry Competition 2024, Teignmouth Poetry Competition 2024, Artemsia Arts Poetry Competition 2026, shortlisted in the Bridport Poetry Prize 2021, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2022, the Fish Poetry Prize 2017, the Plough Prize 2016, 2017 and 2019, The Derby Festival Poetry Prize 2024, the Erbacce Prize 2019, and longlisted in the National Poetry Competition 2018 and the Arts University of Bournemouth International Poetry Prize 2022.
