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Aniqah Choudhri

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Aniqah Choudhri is a British poet and freelance journalist from Manchester. She won the Moth Poetry Prize in 2022 with her poem "The Unloving Ground".[1][2] Choudhri has written articles and reviews for Exeunt Magazine,[3] The New Arab,[4] Tribune,[5] The Independent,[6] and i-D. Her poetry has been published in the anthologies the Bristol Short Story Anthology, Hippocrates Anthology for Poetry and Medicine, and the Lightship Anthology.[7] Choudhri was on the 2022 longlist for the Rebecca Swift Foundation's Women Poets' Prize.[8] She has spoken about being diagnosed with mental illness, and its relationship to her work.[9] She is Muslim and bisexual.[7][10]

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  1. ^ "Book news round-up: Aniqah Choudhri wins The Moth Poetry Prize". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  2. ^ "Aniqah Choudhri wins Moth Poetry Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  3. ^ "Aniqah Choudhri, Author at Exeunt Magazine". Exeunt Magazine. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  4. ^ Choudhri, Aniqah (2020-01-07). "On my app and at the mosque, I want to hear women recite the Quran". The New Arab.
  5. ^ "Aniqah Choudhri". tribunemag.co.uk. 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  6. ^ Choudhri, Aniqah (2020-01-22). "Opinion: Fear of racism isn't to blame for the police's failure to stop grooming gangs". The Independent. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  7. ^ a b Doyle, Martin (2022-03-02). "Warsan Shire reveals her shortlist for €10,000 Moth Poetry Prize". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  8. ^ Stone, Degna (2022-09-14). "Women Poets' Prize 2022 - our longlisted poets, in their own words..." Rebecca Swift Foundation. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  9. ^ Choudhri, Aniqah. "Putting the 'mad artist' myth to bed". Exeunt Magazine. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  10. ^ Choudhri, Aniqah (2020-03-26). "The loneliness of being queer and Muslim". The New Arab.