about

Callan is a Liverpool-based writer and fundraiser.

His debut pamphlet learning to be very soft won the 2019 New Poets Prize and is published with Smith|Doorstop (2020).

In 2024 he won a Northern Writers Award for his poetry collection, good luck have fun! and was longlisted for the Brotherton Poetry Prize.

In 2026 he was shortlisted for a Charlotte Aitken Trust Award for Poetry and for Word Up North’s New Northern Poets programme.

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His poetry has appeared in Magma, The North, The Rialto, Prototype, Bath Magg, Ink Sweat & Tears, berlin lit, Ambient Receiver and elsewhere.

He has written for The Poetry Review, Corridor8, Sphinx and Brash Games.

Callan holds a 1st class degree in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moores University and an MA with distinction in Poetry from Manchester Metropolitan University.