Selected collaboration for the 2022 Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Scheme
About the music creator
About the creative writer
Jennie Howitt is a poet studying the Creative Writing MA at Royal Holloway. She was a Foyles Young Poet in 2016, longlisted for the National Poetry Competition in 2019, highly commended in the Young Poets Network Namedropping challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield, and the how-to poetry competition, all hosted by the Poetry Society. Jennie’s work has also featured in Young Writers anthologies, Writer’s Block magazine, and Ariel Publishing magazine. She has spoken on BBC radio about her approaches to writing poetry and on young people in poetry.
On being selected for this opportunity: "Jennie loves the musical quality and textures of words and images, and regularly uses music to inspire her work. She also feels that her synaesthesia heavily influences her poetry and so the opportunity to combine various sensory mediums is very exciting. She is looking forward to the Picture Gallery residency as it will challenge her try something completely different. "
Image of Joaquin Freccia & Jennifer Howitt
