this article<\/strong><\/a> celebrating its history.<\/p>\nYoung Critics 2026<\/strong><\/p>\nAisha Allinson<\/strong> is a writer based in Sheffield, making her way around the North \u2013 she recently graduated from Manchester and now works at an indie publisher in Leeds. She is particularly interested in writing that explores queerness, marginality and diasporic identities. Her work has been published in PN Review<\/em>.<\/p>\nCaoilfhin Foley<\/strong> is an aspiring writer and poet from the southwest of Ireland. She has had work published in Southword<\/em>, Swerve<\/em> and Ethereal Magazine<\/em> among others. She currently writes cultural commentary pieces for The Medusa<\/em> literary magazine. She received the \u2018New Irish Writing Award\u2019 by the Irish Independent<\/em> in 2024.<\/p>\nElsie Hayward<\/strong> is a twenty-one-year old poet from rural North Dorset. She is a recent English graduate from Cambridge University. Her poetic pursuits began with becoming a Foyle Young Poet in 2020. Since, she has been published extensively on Young Poets Network, and in anthologies from Live Canon and Never Such Innocence.<\/p>\nEmmett Coleman<\/strong> is a poet based in Dundee and studying at the University of St Andrews. His writing has been published in Propel<\/em> and Guava Mag<\/em> and was shortlisted for the 2026 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. He is the founder and editor of his own poetry magazine, Missed the Boat<\/em>.<\/p>\nFlorence Hall<\/strong> is a poet and writer from the Yorkshire Dales. Her poetry has been published with Pulp Poets Press, Popshot<\/em>, and SINK<\/em> amongst others. Florence\u2019s work explores queerness, the body, and nature, and she is about to start an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.<\/p>\nHeather Chapman<\/strong> is a Durham University student. They\u2019re a Foyle Young Poet, and were shortlisted for the 2025 Poetry Wales<\/em> Award and 2025 Oxford Poetry<\/em> Prize. Their work is published in Gutter<\/em>, Oxford Poetry<\/em>, And Other Poems<\/em>\u00a0and Bloodletter<\/em>. They have a micro-chapbook published with The Braag.<\/p>\nJacob Burgess Rollo<\/strong> is a poet from Dorset. His work features in The London Magazine<\/em>, Oxford Poetry<\/em>, Magma<\/em>, Berlin Lit<\/em>, fourteen poems<\/em>, The Little Review<\/em>, And Other Poems<\/em>, Basket<\/em> and elsewhere. He was a runner-up in the New Poets Prize 2026.<\/p>\nSalma Reda<\/strong> is a third-year literature student and aspiring cultural critic. Her interests include (but are not limited to) the internet, the eighteenth century, multilingualism, fashion, literary modernism, film, and rap music. She muses on the above on Substack @salmamarreda.<\/p>\nTasneem Maher<\/strong> is a writer and researcher based in Edinburgh, where she is working on the poetics, politics, and affect of the Palestinian speculative. Her writing has appeared in Poetry Online<\/em>, VIBE<\/em> and BAHR Magazine<\/em>, among others, and she was the 2026 winner of Propel<\/em> Cambridge Poetry Prize. She is committed to PACBI, and she rejects Zionism everywhere.<\/p>\nZeinab Elnemer<\/strong> is an Egyptian-born student, poet and illustrator based in Durham, currently working on her multimedia zine ‘The Last of the Cluster’, which explores childhood memories and diaspora. Some of her writing can be found in Afkar9Fikra<\/em> (2025), while she can be found making cuppas in a volunteer-ran community bookshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The T. S. Eliot Prize and The Poetry Society are delighted to announce the cohort for the fifth instalment of the Young Critics Scheme. Ten young writers have been selected and will each review, in video form, one of the poetry collections shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2026. 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