Marcelle Newbold is a Writer, Tutor, and Editor based in Cardiff, Wales
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An award-winning, published poet, her work focuses on place and inheritance
Bridport Prize shortlisted, Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated, runner-up in the Walk.Listen.Create writing competition, and winner of the Poetry in the Arcades competition, her poems have been published in online and print magazines including Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Atrium, Black Iris, iamb, and Fly on the Wall Press, and in recent print anthologies by Black Bough Poetry, Maytree Press, Wild Pressed Books, Icefloe Press, Broken Spine, and Indigo Dreams. Her hybrid art/poem mini-pamphlet 'City Companions' in collaboration with Karen Pierce-Gonzalez published by Hedgehog Press is forthcoming in 2025.
Marcelle's preoccupations include the intersection between nature, the places we inhabit and self; domestication; legacy and inheritance; and the spaces between. Her anthology work includes architecture, Dylan Thomas, deep time, grief and loss, and seascapes. She has been a committee member for the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics since 2022, and is contributing editor at The Winged Moon literature magazine.
She has been a spoken word headliner for Voices on the Bridge, North Bay Poetics, and Ye Olde Murenger Poetry night; interviewed for Just Another Poet, Eat the Storms Podcast and Fevers of the Mind; and a feature poet for Iamb and Black Bough Silver branch series.
She was managing editor of Nightingale & Sparrow literary press, a guest editor for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, Feral, and Black Bough, competition poetry judge for Rare Swan Press, and Cardiff Writers Circle, and was the coordinator for Gloucester Poetry Festival. Marcelle has given talks and workshops to local schools, at the Talking Place symposium, and for local groups, and has attended a Ty Newydd Masterclass, selected by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke.
Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect, and now tutors at the Welsh School of Architecture and works in community engagement. Her poem 'Arcade hopping' is on permanent display in Cardiff City Centre.
Linktree: marcellenewbold Instagram and X: @marcellenewbold Bluesky marcellenewbold.bsky.social
100 word bio:
Marcelle's writing explores place and inheritance. Bridport Prize shortlisted, nominated for BoTN and Pushcart, her poems have been published by Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Atrium, Iamb, Fly on the Wall Press, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams and others. She is a committee member for the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, contributing editor at The Winged Moon, and has been a guest editor for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, Feral, and Black Bough. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect. @marcellenewbold on Linktree, Instagram, X and Bluesky.
50 word bio:
Marcelle's writing explores place and inheritance. Bridport Prize shortlisted, her poems have been published by Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams and others. She is contributing editor at The Winged Moon literature magazine. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect. @marcellenewbold
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Competitions:
Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poets Development Scheme 2024 - longlist
Cambrian Mountains Society poetry competition 2023 - highly commended - 'Day trip to the mountains'
Best of the Net 2023 - nominated - by Black Bough Poetry for ‘With my last exhale’, published as part of the Silver Branch Features Writer Series
Bridport Prize 2022 - shortlisted - for 'Dad was a typesetter'
Walk.Listen.Create ‘Walking Home’ writing competition, 2022 - runner-up - for 'Returning'
Pushcart Prize 2020 - nominated - by Black Bough Poetry for ‘Precious’, micro poem published in the the Underland themed ‘Deep Time Anthologies’
Poetry in the Arcades competition, 2020 - winner - ‘Arcade Hopping’ poem on permanent display within Morgan Arcade in Cardiff City Centre
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Editor:
Contributing Editor:
The Winged Moon, 2024-
Managing Editor:
Nightingale & Sparrow literary presebruars, 2021- 2023
Guest Editor:
The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, 5th anthology, Feb 2025
Black Bough Poetry, 'In flight' edition, April 2024
Cambrian Mountains Society, Poetry Competition Anthology, February 2024
Feral: a Journal of Poetry and Art, 'Hunger' Issue, June 2022
Co-editor:
Echoes, Poetic Letters by Alan Parry, Rare Swan Press, 2022
Ceiling Fan by Kari Flickinger, Rare Swan Press, 2022
Pandemic Anthology, Yarnwhispering, 2020
Competition judge:
Cardiff Writers' Circle poetry competition, March 2024
Competition judge for Stories from the eyes of an owl, Rare Swan Press, 2021
Event hosting:
Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, online festive celebration
Black Bough, In Flight Edition, online anthology launch
Cardiff Writers Circle poetry competition presentation night
Rare Swan Press, Ceiling Fan by Kari Flickinger, online book launch
Talks:
Lisvane Community Library, reintroduction to poetry. January 2025
Rhiwbeina Library Author Series, 'poetry, place and publishing', October 2024
Rhiwbeina Primary, Year 3 poetry workshops - the long thin poem, October 2024
Cardiff Writers' Circle, 'tips for success: poetry competition entries', February 2024
North Bay Poetics, 'prose poetry', July 2023
Rhiwbeina Primary, Year 4 poetry workshops - haibun, January 2023
Talking Place: a symposium, presentation of paper on urban micro-navigation, July 2022
Cardiff Writers' Circle, 'how to get into print: being a literary citizen', workshop 2022
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Headliner / featured poet:
Voices on the Bridge, Clwb y Bont (not recorded)
North Bay Poetics, prose poetry event (not recorded)
Ye Olde Murenger Poetry night (not recorded)
Interviews:
Just Another Poet Interview, youtube (video)
Eat the Storms Podcast, Season 3, Episode 3 (audio)
Fevers of the Mind ‘Quick 9’ Interview (article)
Podcast poems:
Eat the Storms Christmas Podcast
The Broken Spine Coffeehouse Podcast - episode 2
Eat the Storms Podcast - episode 17, season 8 (Matthew MC Smith spotlight)
Features:
Black Bough Poetry, Silver branch series, writer of the month (article and audio)
Iamb, wave 8 (article and audio)
Deck the Storms Festive Poetry Party (video)
Wales Arts Review, Cardiff City of Arcade Poets (audio)
Publications:
Hybrid art/poem mini-pamphlet 'City Companions' in collaboration with Karen Pierce-Gonzalez, is forthcoming in 2025 from Hedgehog Press.
Anthologies, Journals and Magazines see publications.
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Poetry book recommendations and blurbs:
Karen Pierce Gonzalez, ‘Coyote in the basket of my ribs’ from Keslay Books
‘Pierce Gonzalez’s ‘Coyote in the basket of my ribs’ is an exquisite exploration of restlessness. She expertly transcribes the sadness of the untameable, displaying a deep connection with wildness. Her coyote dream poems are intertwined with a delicate, involving understanding of loss, of dependency on the just out of reach, and the melding of domesticity and other.’
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Moira J Saucer, ‘Wiregrass’ from Ethel Zine
In this hand-finished, debut chapbook, from Ethel Zine, Moira J Saucer explores 19 poems, permitting an insight into a world of loss and discovery. Set over 15 years she reveals her experience through ‘a tent of opaque anguish’, while acknowledging buds of optimism. Her inclination to tend, despite the challenges, and pain, she faces, is apparent through these poignant and moving poems - ‘knitting wholeness together’. ‘Wiregrass’ the title poem, vividly shows the edge of human nature, living in the American Wastelands.‘
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Elisabeth Horan, ‘The Mask’ from The Broken Spine:
‘Incredibly powerful, an unashamed assertion of woman, ‘The Mask’ explores the exquisite intensity of desire. An intimate portrait of the cerebral and visceral meaning of yearning, Elisabeth’s lyricism urges uprising: the relinquishing and seizing of control. The rhythmical sense of abandon within these ekphrastic responses, intwined with Frida’s native Spanish, feed a lingering connection between the artist’s and poet’s tenacious spirits.’
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Amantine Brodeur, ‘Falling Slowly’ from Bookhub publishing:
‘Amantine’s ‘Falling Slowly’ promises a journey through longing, the unravelling of relationships, and the shifting patterns of desire for sensual connection. This beautiful affecting collection explores the uncovering of bodies which share intimacy, corporeal proximity of living and loss, the intoxication of dwelling and visceral affection, alongside the brutality of coercion and stratum of toxic behaviours. Layers of bougainvillea, midnight scents and sepia reflections of the Mesopotamic, travel these gathered poems of love and trauma, centred on a friend’s suicide, through nuanced expression and allegories of nature. Amantine expertly depicts though a lens of spontaneous lyrical language quiet lament, an innate yearning, and devotion to the human condition with all its delicacies. Her poems record the intent of a poem to be written, and the capacity of the feminine laced with discord. ‘