Meet the Portico Prize 2022 judges
On our 2022 judging panel are leading figures from the worlds of literature, the media and academia, who all have an association with the North of England.
Melanie Sykes
Melanie Sykes, who grew up in Mossley, is a broadcaster, and Editor-in-Chief of The Frank Magazine. She co-hosts the Sykes & Savidge Book Club on the YouTube channel with booktuber Simon Savidge.
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Anita Singh
Anita Singh, who was born in Bradford, is a journalist who has covered television, film and culture for nearly 20 years, including more than a decade as arts and entertainment editor for The Daily Telegraph.
Gary Younge
Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media. He has written five books: Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We?, And Should it Matter in the 21st century; Stranger in a Strange Land, Travels in the Disunited States; and No Place Like Home, A Black Briton’s Journey Through the Deep South. He has also written for The New York Review of Books, Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman, and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.
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Momtaza Mehri
Momtaza Mehri is a poet, essayist and independent researcher. Her work has appeared in the likes of Granta, Artforum, The Guardian, and The Poetry Review. She is the former Young People’s Laureate for London nd a Frontier-Antioch Fellow at Antioch University. Her latest pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, was published by Goldsmiths Press. In 2019 Momtaza was a winner of the Manchester Writing Competition, receiving the £10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize.