Poet, Writer, Fortune Teller

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Kym Deyn (pronounced DEEN) is an award-winning poet, writer and fortune teller. Their pamphlets include Nine Arches’ Primers Vol. 6., Dionysia published by Verve Poetry Press, and Unfurl, a collaborative fiction experiment published by their press The Braag CIC. Otherwise, their prose and poetry is widely published in a range of anthologies and magazines including Strange Horizons, and Butcher’s Dog. They have been shortlisted for awards including the Brotherton Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize. They are one of the winners of the 2020 Outspoken Prize for poetry. They are a graduate of Durham University, where they studied Classical Civilisations, and Newcastle University where they recieved an MA in Creative Writing.

Their work has been described by poet Linda France as “fizzing with delight in language, style and ideas. There is ecstasy and largesse in the way folk wisdom, urban myth and ecology collide, beautifully rooted in the land and the sea and their stories.” And by poet Rishi Dastidar as being a place “where reality is hazy in the way the best summer evenings are, and where enchantment isn’t a possibility, but a command.”

In 2021 they recieved DYCP funding from Arts Council England to develop their queer audio drama work. They are also the director of The Braag CIC, a press, journal and trickster spirit that publishes poetry and speculative fiction while supporting emerging artists in the North East of England. 

Like everyone else, they are currently working towards a novel.

Kym has worked as a professional Tarot Card reader for over eight years. Pricing and more information availible here.

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