Elizabeth Uter

Elizabeth Uter is a multi-award-winning poet and short story writer. She took top honours at the 2018 Poem for Slough Competition, winning both the Over 18s category and the overall competition with her poem Slough Homecoming, written as an antidote to Sir John Betjeman's poem Slough.

Her fiction has earned similar acclaim. She is a two-time City of Stories winner, taking first place in 2022 (Croydon) for This Is Us and in 2017 (Brent) for Water, published by Spread the Word.

An active member of the literary community, she has facilitated Farrago Poetry workshops across London, and has performed at the Queen's Park Book Festival, UK Slams and poetry venues and open mics.