Julie McNeill

JULIE McNEILL is the Poet-in-Residence for St Mirren Football Club Charitable Trust, the only female poet – as far as can be established – attached to a professional football club in the UK, perhaps in the world. She is the Makar for The Hampden Collection, set up to preserve and protect Scotland’s footballing heritage.

Julie’s work has been recently commissioned by BBC Sport Scotland and the Scottish Poetry Library and in 2024 she won The Burrell Collection Hidden Gems poetry competition. Recent poetry collections include Something Small (Drunk Muse Press 2023) and Ragged Rainbows (HybridDreich 2021) and the award winning non-fiction book for children Mission Dyslexia (JKP Books 2021). She spends much of her time working with neurodivergent children and adults.