Dr Guinevere Clark
Founder of Poetry Into Light, Guinevere is a creative writing tutor working across Swansea. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University – exploring ‘The Poetics of Motherhood, Sexuality, and Place’, and developed a creative writing analysis model. In 2025 she won The Hammond House International Literary Prize (poetry category).
Other achievements and publications include: shortlisting and highly commended awards from Poetry London Pamphlet Competition, Cinnamon Press Literary Award, The Wales Poetry Award, Nature Chronicles Prize, Ambit, Magma, Poetry Wales and Demeter Press.
Her first collection is Fresh Fruit & Screams (Bluechrome, 2006). Guinevere currently works on community arts projects, curates and edits poetry anthologies, co-produces open mics and is co-editor and academic researcher for the Canadian feminist journal Demeter Press. She was honoured to receive a Fellowship from the Royal Society of Arts in 2025 from her writing on motherhood, death and memory.
She holds a BA in Creative Arts (Drama, Live Arts, Creative Writing) and an MA in Creative Producing and Arts Management from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (partial scholarship). She is currently working on her next poetry collection while furthering her commitment to Poetry Into Light and its aims to break down barriers in the world of literature for grass-roots and professional poets. Guinevere is passionate about expanding the benefits of poetry and creative writing in community settings and recently ran a popular 2.5 year poetry workshop course at The Taliesin Arts Centre in Swansea.
She collaborates widely with arts organisations from theatre to education and wellbeing groups. Currently serving on the judging panel for The Hammond House International Literary Prize (poetry category), she is also a judge for the 2025 Swansea and District Writer’s Circle poetry competition.
Guinevere is a single mother and explores this alongside gender inequality and place in her poetry. She is particularly focused on exploring the Swansea coast in her writing and intersections of liminality, motherhood and desire.
