Laura Jane Round is a writer, editor and performance poet from the West Midlands. Round has a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moores University, making their poetry debut on the Liverpool performance circuit.
Round has been published many times, in places such as the Trickster Anthology, Lumpen Journal (of which they later went on to guest edit), the Beyond Queer Words Poetry Anthology and Sad Girl Review.
‘The Coveted’, Round’s debut pamphlet, was released in 2021 by Cerasus Poetry. Their sophomore effort, ‘TEATH’, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2022.
A short story anthology from local press Tenebrous Texts, exclusively penned by Round, is currently in the works.
Since 2022, Round has been a short story competition judge for NYC Midnight. Round is also the Editorial Director of Tenebrous Texts, a West Midlands-based press that specialises in dark and speculative fiction.
Laura Jane loves weird films, sitting in cafés on rainy days and spending time with their partner and two gundogs.
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Selected Projects
Voices of Hope – A Jericho Heritage Project
Celebrating 30 years of Birmingham-based charity Jericho, ‘Voices of Hope’ aims to give staff and those helped by the charity a platform to share their unique experiences.
Digital Archive – Voices of Hope (Voices of Hope — JERICHO)
The Overhear Poetry Project
The Overhear Poetry Project aims to make heritage trails of spoken word throughout different areas of the UK. I wrote a poem for the Lych Gate, one of Wolverhampton’s oldest buildings.
A Reading at the Lych Gate by Laura Jane (theoverhear.app)
Dudley Peoples Archive
Laura Jane Round – ‘Portrait of a 20th Century Toilet’ — Dudley People’s Archive (dudleypeoplesarchive.com)
Arts Review Round Up: Dudley’s Peoples Archive — The Everyday (theeverydaymagazine.co.uk)
Gallery 1 — Dudley People’s Archive (dudleypeoplesarchive.com)
The Geography of Illness
An audio project for chronic illness.
Exhibits and Lectures — The Geography of Illness
Rochester Exhibit Page — The Geography of Illness