Ali Rowland

Ali Rowland is a writer from Northumberland. She works in collaboration with composer Phil Rowland (Flockham Sisby) to produce film poems and other constructions. 

Ali won the inaugural Hexham Poetry Competition in 2023. Her poems have been included in Dreich, Orbis and The Frogmore Papers, amongst others, and in the following anthologies: Tabula Rasa: Poems by Women (Linen Press): Ten Poems of Kindness (Candlestick Press), Facing Farewell Anthology (Wee Sparrow Press) and Thin Places and Sacred Spaces (Amethyst Press). 

Her poetry collections Rooted (Maplestreet Press) and Dragged Up: A Northern Childhood (Sixty Odd Poets) were published in 2024. She has been nominated for Best of the Net 2025. 

Her short fiction has been published in The Amphibian Literary Journal, The Letters Page, Wensum and Flash Fiction North. Ali has just completed her second novel. 

You can follow her work on Musings of a Mad Woman on Substack.