Adam Lowe (writer)

Adam Lowe is of Afro-Caribbean (St. Kitts), British and Irish descent.{{cite news|url=http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2012/07/artistic-horizons-presents-a-conversation-with-adam-lowe-and-dr-leanne-haynes/ |title=Artistic Horizons presents a conversation with Adam Lowe and Dr. Leanne Haynes – Features, Literature|newspaper=ARC Magazine |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He is the child of local politician Alison Lowe, and like her graduated with both a BA and MA from the University of Leeds.{{cite news|url=http://leeds.academia.edu/AdamLowe |title=Adam Lowe – Bio|website=Academia.edu |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=Leeds}} He is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Manchester. His family was the subject of the 1999 ITV docu-soap Family Life (Lion TV).{{cite news |last1=McCann |first1=Paul |title=25 years on, a new family lets cameras enter their lives |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/25-years-on-a-new-family-lets-cameras-enter-their-lives-1082287.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109030330/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/25-years-on-a-new-family-lets-cameras-enter-their-lives-1082287.html |archive-date=9 November 2018 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=20 November 2019 |work=The Independent |date=22 March 1999}} He describes himself as genderfluid but primarily uses he/his pronouns, except when in drag.

Adam Lowe writes about disability,{{Cite journal |last1=Kingdon |first1=Caroline |last2=Lowe |first2=Adam |last3=Shepherd |first3=Charles |last4=Nacul |first4=Luis |date=December 2022 |title=What Primary Care Practitioners Need to Know about the New NICE Guideline for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adults |journal=Healthcare |language=en |volume=10 |issue=12 |pages=2438 |doi=10.3390/healthcare10122438 |pmid=36553962 |pmc=9778354 |issn=2227-9032 |doi-access=free }} LGBT+ experiences, the lives of mixed race/Black British communities and the intersections between them.{{Cite web |last=cipendragon |date=26 February 2021 |title=Queer Tales: Myths and Monsters |url=https://storiesfromthemuseumfloor.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/queer-tales-myths-and-monsters/ |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=Stories from the Museum Floor (Manchester Museum) |language=en}}

Lowe is the UK's first LGBT+ History Month Poet Laureate. With afshan d'souza-lodhi, he co-founded and runs Young Enigma, a writer development project for young writers.{{Cite web |title=bio & cv – afshan d’souza-lodhi |url=https://afshandl.com/cv/ |access-date=2025-05-30 |language=en-GB}} He is Editor-in-Chief of Vada Magazine and Dog Horn Publishing, and works in the publicity department of Peepal Tree Press.

Lowe has performed around the world, at a variety of venues, festivals and conferences, including the Commonword Black and Asian Writers Conference,{{cite news|url=http://www.culturewordconference.org/bawc16-programme/ |title=BAWC16 Programme|website=Cultureword: Black Writers Conference |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=Manchester}} and is chair of the charity Black Gold Arts.{{Cite web |title=Adam Lowe {{!}} Peepal Tree Press |url=https://www.peepaltreepress.com/authors/adam-lowe |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=www.peepaltreepress.com|date=January 1985 }} He is an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and sits on the management committee for Schools OUT UK, the charity that founded LGBT+ History Month in the UK.{{cite news |url=https://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/institutionally-ableist-schools-outs-adam-lowe-on-the-me-scandal/ |title="institutionally ableist " – Schools OUT's Adam Lowe on the ME Scandal |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London |archive-date=16 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716083852/https://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/institutionally-ableist-schools-outs-adam-lowe-on-the-me-scandal/ |url-status=dead }}

He was formerly Features Editor for Bent Magazine and Editor of a speculative fiction magazine called Polluto.{{cite news|url=http://newstages.leeds.ac.uk/archive/new-stages-2008/ |title=New Stages 2008 |website=University of Leeds |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=Leeds}}{{cite web |last1=Steel |first1=Jim |title=Polluto #2 |url=http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/reviews/polluto-2/ |website=British Fantasy Society |access-date=21 November 2019}}

In 2010, he was writer-in-residence at I Love West Leeds Arts Festival in Armley, the area where he was raised as the son of a local councillor.{{cite news|url=https://electricliterature.com/digitise-this-by-adam-lowe-52f288503b47 |title=Digitise This by Adam Lowe |newspaper=Electric Literature |date=19 August 2010 |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=New York}} He studied under Madani Younis at Freedom Studios in Bradford.{{cite news|url=https://inscribewriters.wordpress.com/young-inscribe/adam-lowe/ |title=Adam Lowe – Bio|website=Inscribe Writers |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=Leeds}} He was also announced as a finalist for the 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards with his novella Troglodyte Rose (later, a selection from the book would be a Wattpad featured story getting over 190,000 reads).{{cite news|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/05/10/2010-awards-finalists-winners/ |title=22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards |newspaper=Lambda Literary |date=10 May 2010 |access-date=15 November 2019 |location=New York}}{{cite news|url=https://www.wattpad.com/story/1582474-troglodyte-rose-a-rose-in-any-other-game |title=Troglodyte Rose: A Rose in Any Other Game – Adam Lowe – Wattpad|newspaper=Wattpad |access-date=15 November 2019 |location=Toronto}}

In 2011, Lowe was writer on attachment at West Yorkshire Playhouse, and partnered with composer Nikki Franklin for Leeds Lieder+ at Leeds College of Music, before the two collaborated on a new work, "Mary", for the BBC Singers.{{cite news|url=https://bachtrack.com/review-composers-poets-showcase-leeds-lieder-plus |title=Composers+ Poets Showcase at Leeds Lieder+ |newspaper=Bachtrack |date=12 October 2011 |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London}}

In 2012, his pamphlet Precocious (Fruit Bruise Press) was a reader nomination for the Guardian First Book Prize, which the publication described as "A vivid picture of emotions, deeply felt, but with a clear-eyed view of the ways we humans live, love and sometimes betray".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/jul/23/first-book-award-precocious |title=Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Precocious by Adam Lowe |newspaper=The Guardian |date=23 July 2012 |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London}} He also had a residency at Zion Arts Centre.{{cite book|author1=Adam Lowe|author2=Chris Kelso|title=Terror Scribes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q24jBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA238|year=2012|publisher=Lulo.com|isbn=978-1-907133-34-3|page=238}}

That year he was Yorkshire's poet for the 12 Poets of 2012 scheme, celebrating the 2012 Olympics and the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, where he visited boxer Anthony Ogogo on a training session to inspire the writing of an Olympic-themed poem for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/people/leeds-poet-joins-chozen-dozen-to-see-olympic-poem-displayed-1-4897058 |title=Leeds poet joins chosen dozen to see Olympic poem displayed |newspaper=Yorkshire Evening Post |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=Leeds}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}{{cite news |last1=Ahad |first1=Nick |title=Melting pot luck |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/latest-news/melting-pot-luck-1-6379854 |access-date=20 November 2019 |work=The Yorkshire Post |date=19 January 2014}} The final poem was performed by the National Lottery Draw Show's Voice of the Balls Alan Dedicoat at the National Lottery Plot in the Olympic Park on 3 September 2012.{{cite news |title=National Lottery's 12 Poets of 2012 Visit Olympic Park |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/jacob-sam-la-rose-theresa-ohare-ita-gooden-alan-dedicoat-news-photo/151196616?uiloc=thumbnail_more_from_this_event_adp |access-date=20 November 2019 |work=Getty Images |date=3 September 2012}} Lowe rounded the year off with inclusion in MTV Books' Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, edited by Saul Williams and Dufflyn Lammers.{{cite book|title=Chorus: A Literary Mixtape – MTV Books/Simon & Schuster|publisher=Simon & Schuster |id={{ASIN|1451649835|country=uk}}}}

In 2013, he was announced as one of 10 Black and Asian "advanced poets" for The Complete Works II (founded by Bernardine Evaristo) with Mona Arshi, Jay Bernard, Kayo Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe, Eileen Pun and Warsan Shire, which resulted in the anthology Ten: The New Wave, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf.{{cite web |last1=Makoha |first1=Nick |author-link=Nick Makoha|title=News: Complete Works II |url=https://nickmakoha.com/2013/02/26/spread-the-word-discovers-new-voices-complete-works-2-press-release/ |website=nickmakoha.com |access-date=20 November 2019}} He was mentored on the programme by Patience Agbabi. He also made the list of "20 under 40" writers in Leeds for the LS13 Awards,{{cite web |title=LS13: A New Generation of Leeds Writers |url=http://www.bigbookend.co.uk/past-festivals/ls13/ |website=Big Bookend |date=24 February 2014 |access-date=21 November 2019}} where Lowe was given as an example of "the non-conformist and boundary-breaking approach to writing in Leeds".{{cite web |last1=Bryant |first1=Steph |title=Review: LS13 |url=https://readersphere.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/review-ls13/ |website=The Readersphere |date=2 September 2013 |access-date=21 November 2019}}

In 2014, he toured his solo show, Ecstasies, which began at Contact Theatre's Queer Contact. He performed a poem about cruising for 4thought.tv on Channel 4.

In 2015, his Polari poem "Vada That" was selected as The Guardian Poem of the Week. His play Friend Roulette ran for a week at the Amersham Arms in London.{{cite news|url=http://www.theatrebubble.com/2015/02/bare-essentials-encompass-productions-amersham-arms/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115190341/http://www.theatrebubble.com/2015/02/bare-essentials-encompass-productions-amersham-arms/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=15 January 2016 |title=Bare Essentials – Encompass Productions, Amersham Arms – Review, Theatre|newspaper=theatre bubble |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London}} The play received a four-star review in Theatre Bubble, describing the play as "a comment on the real life app, Grindr, where users meet for sex and chance encounters. The intensity of the meetings that can only be virtual and therefore 'not real'". The Guardian referred to the short play, in published form, as "a fine playlet".

In 2017, he performed with composer Nikki Franklin in the Speaker's Chambers at the House of Commons for LGBT History Month.{{cite news |url=https://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/parliaments-speakers-chamber-goes-rainbow-to-launch-lgbt-history-month-2017/ |title=Parliament's Speaker's Chamber Goes Rainbow to Launch LGBT History Month 2017 |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London |archive-date=18 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618110457/http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/parliaments-speakers-chamber-goes-rainbow-to-launch-lgbt-history-month-2017/ |url-status=dead }} In 2018–9, he featured in the British Library's Windrush Stories exhibition, performing a poem based on the Lord's Prayer.{{cite news|url=https://www.bl.uk/windrush/videos/out-of-bounds-adam-lowe |title=Out of Bounds: Adam Lowe – News, Videos |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London}} In 2019, his poem 'Bone Railroad', about slavery and the Middle Passage was selected as Poem of the Week by The Yorkshire Times.{{cite news|url=http://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem-Of-The-Week-Bone-Railroad-By-Adam-Lowe |title=Poem of the Week: 'Bone Railroad' By Adam Lowe – Features, Literature|newspaper=The Yorkshire Times |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=Leeds}} He also joined drag performers, including Cheddar Gorgeous and Anna Phylactic, in a protest against the state visit of Donald Trump in London.{{Cite web |title=Drag Artists Against Trump {{!}} Spitalfields Life |url=https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/07/15/drag-artists-against-trump/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |language=en}}

In 2021, he contributed a poem called "Writing Myself in History" and performed a lip sync of Regina Spektor's "Us" for Manchester Museum, as part of Pride Month. The poem and performance explore ideas of queering the archive and contested ownership. As Beyonce Holes, he also performed at the Manchester Pride at Home event with Cheddar Gorgeous, doing a number inspired by #BlackLivesMatter to Nina Simone's "Sinnerman".{{Citation |title=Manchester Queens Pride Show Premiere | date=19 September 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtG_nu-aJ_4 |access-date=22 March 2023 |language=en-GB}}{{Citation |title=Beyonce Holes Pride Black Lives Matter performance | date=7 October 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxUqscwVBfg |access-date=22 March 2023 |language=en-GB}}

In June 2022, Lowe performed at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter with Mona Arshi, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Fred D'Aguiar, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Shivanee Ramlochan, Jacob Sam-La Rose, John Siddique, Yomi Sode and {{interlanguage link|Yusra Warsama|de||sv}} as part of the My Words collaboration with the Museum of Colour, curated by Melanie Abrahams. The poets were accompanied by live music and vocals from Randolph Matthews.{{cite news|url=https://rammuseum.org.uk/news/ramm-partners-with-museum-of-colour-on-their-exhibition-my-words/ |title=RAMM partners with Museum of Colour on their exhibition 'My Words'|website=RAMM |access-date=1 October 2022 |location=Exeter}} As part of the My Words programme, Lowe also contributed a poem called "Seasoning" to the Museum of Colour, inspired by a set of chains used in the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.{{cite news|url=https://museumofcolour.org.uk/my-words/response-gallery/adam-lowe/?piece=7 |title=Seasoning by Adam Lowe|website=Museum of Colour |access-date=1 October 2022}} In October 2022, he edited the anthology The World Reimagined, featuring 30 poets, including Anthony Joseph, Benjamin Zephaniah, Dorothea Smartt, John Agard, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Kadija Sesay, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Malika Booker, Marvin Thompson, Otis Mensah, Raymond Antrobus, Shara McCallum, Shivanee Ramlochan, Tanya Shirley and others. The book was published by The World Reimagined, an arts education charity which "exists to transform our understanding of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans".{{Cite web |title=The World Reimagined: A Poetic Journey of Discovery |url=https://theworldreimagined.myshopify.com/products/the-world-reimagined-a-poetic-journey-of-discovery |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=The World Reimagined |language=en}}

In December 2022, Lowe co-authored the scientific paper "What Primary Care Practitioners Need to Know about the New NICE Guideline for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adults" in the journal Healthcare, writing as a lay person with lived experience of ME/CFS.{{Cite web |date=14 January 2018 |title='We live with this illness in the dark': The truth about coping with ME |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/why-patients-me-demanding-justice-millions-missing-chronic-fatigue-illness-disease-a8133616.html |access-date=15 February 2025 |website=The Independent |language=en}}

In 2023, Peepal Tree Press published Lowe's debut (full-length) poetry collection, Patterflash, as "[a] collection [which] connects the poet as a wry, humane observer of the scene, particularly as conducted in Manchester, and the persona of 'Adam Lowe' as both actor in and narrator of his own dramas, who performs, exults and sometimes suffers in a wide range of guises and disguises."{{cite web |url=https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/patterflash |title=Patterflash by Adam Lowe |publisher=Peepal Tree Press |access-date=1 October 2022}} The collection includes several poems in Polari.{{Cite web |title=Slang, Spectrums and Serious Drag – from OX Magazine |url=https://www.oxmag.co.uk/articles/slang-spectrums-and-serious-drag/ |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=oxmag.co.uk |language=en}} To support the book, Lowe was announced as one of the authors in attendance at Bocas Lit Fest 2023 in Trinidad. He gave a workshop on intimacy in poetry, as well as a reading with Andre Bagoo and Padraig Regan.{{Cite web |title=Adam Lowe • Bocas Lit Fest |url=https://www.bocaslitfest.com/participant/adam-lowe/ |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=Bocas Lit Fest |language=en-US}} In 2024, Patterflash was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.{{Cite web |title=Polari Prize 2024 |url=https://www.polarisalon.com/copy-of-polari-prize-2024 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729234202/https://www.polarisalon.com/copy-of-polari-prize-2024 |archive-date=29 July 2024 |access-date=24 September 2024 |website=polarisalon |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Emily |first=Olivia |date=30 September 2024 |title=These Are The Best LGBTQ+ Books Of The Last Year |url=https://www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/polari-prize-2024/ |access-date=19 November 2024 |website=Country and Town House |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=19 November 2024 |title=2024 Polari Prizes longlists released |url=https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-detail/2024-polari-prizes-longlists-released/ |access-date=19 November 2024 |website=Bookbrunch |language=en}}

Patience Agbabi said of Lowe's debut collection Patterflash: "Effervescent with verbal velocity, buzzing with innuendo and insight, often pithy, sometimes poignant, Patterflash is a lovesong to language. Adam Lowe switches brilliantly between registers, from Polari to Yorkshire vernacular to everything in between. The effect is thrilling. This unique debut demands a standing ovation. I loved it!"{{cite web |title=Patterflash by Adam Lowe |url=https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/patterflash |access-date=1 October 2022 |publisher=Peepal Tree Press}}

Andrew McMillan described it as: "A collection of ecstatic queer hymns that walk us through Leeds, through Manchester, with the unique language of being young and queer in the north."

Carol Rumens of The Guardian describes Adam Lowe as a "versatile and widely published young writer".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/oct/12/poem-of-the-week-vada-that-by-adam-lowe |title=Poem of the week: Vada That by Adam Lowe – Features, Books, Poetry|newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London}} In 2012, the readers for the Guardian First Book Prize described Lowe's chapbook "Precocious" as "A vivid picture of emotions, deeply felt, but with a clear-eyed view of the ways we humans live, love and sometimes betray".

In 2013, Lowe was given as an example of "the non-conformist and boundary-breaking approach to writing in Leeds" when recognising his work at the LS13 Awards. In 2014, Sohini Basak of Sabotage Reviews wrote of Lowe's poems in Ten: The New Wave, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf (Bloodaxe): "Adam Lowe also merges the then with the now, reworking Sappho, stories from the Bible and Babylon seamlessly, in subversive narratives, claiming them as personal and political points of protest."{{Cite web |date=2 December 2014 |title=Ten: The New Wave, ed. by Karen McCarthy Woolf |url=https://sabotagereviews.com/2014/12/02/ten-the-new-wave-ed-by-karen-mccarthy-woolf/ |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=Sabotage |language=en-US}}

In 2015, a four-star review of his play "Friend Roulette" in Theatre Bubble said, "Friend Roulette by LGBT writer Adam Lowe, directed by Rachel Owens, sheds light on a gay friendship that is pushed by.. society? inhibitions? fear? into the confines of a chat room (Friend Roulette). But it could also be a comment on the real life app, Grindr, where users meet for sex and chance encounters. The intensity of the meetings that can only be virtual and therefore 'not real' for one of the friends, played by Robert Wallis, causes him to break free for the real world, leaving his internet friend Jonathan Woodhouse, stuck in the hell of a darkened room." The Guardian referred to the short play, in published form, as "a fine playlet that [the reviewer] was very impressed by".

In 2018, poet Shivanee Ramlochan wrote of Lowe's poem "Traces of Invasion" on her website Novel Niche: "Lowe serves us these trifle-and-gunsmoke slices of revelation, of bitter disappointment and brined satisfaction: clean, and clear, and right between the eyes. It isn't easy for a poem to do this, to wind itself around you without the commonly-perceived artifice of poetic apparatus."{{Cite web |last=Niche |first=Novel |date=10 June 2018 |title="Traces of Invasion" – Adam Lowe |url=https://novelniche.net/2018/06/09/traces-of-invasion-adam-lowe/ |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=Novel Niche |language=en}} In a 2019 review for The Yorkshire Times, Steve Whitaker writes of Lowe's Middle Passage elegy, "Kennaway's métier is reinvented in Adam Lowe's fine poem of restorative commemoration, 'Bone Railroad'".{{Cite web |title=Poem Of The Week: 'Bone Railroad' By Adam Lowe |url=https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem-Of-The-Week-Bone-Railroad-By-Adam-Lowe |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=Yorkshire Times}}

Publishers Weekly, in reviewing More Fiya, refers to the anthology's varied poems as like "the 'funny thing' that Adam Lowe calls desire—complex, surprising, and radical in both theme and structure, and whole in their moments of fragility and strength".{{Cite web |title=Review of More Fiya by Kayo Chingonyi |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781838855307 |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=Publishers Weekly}}

Poet Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa said of one of Lowe's poems in Filigree: "I am in awe of 'Boy-Machine', I was tipping towards the edge of my chair willing this brave soul's flight to end in a more satisfying outcome than Icarus'. The storytelling is breathtaking, I could feel my bones consulting with my DNA to negotiate if I could grow wings for a brief moment. My bones settled for a re-reading."

In 2023, Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston wrote, for The Times Literary Supplement, about one of Lowe's poems in the anthology 100 Queer Poems: "Adam Lowe's 'Vada That' [...] exuberantly resuscitates the now-defunct queer cryptolect Polari to offer a portrait of a 'bimbo bit of hard' on the cruise for 'trade'".{{Cite web |title=Three recently published volumes of queer poetry |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/100-queer-poems-mary-jean-chan-andrew-mcmillan-queering-the-green-paul-maddern-the-sun-isnt-out-long-enough-tatevik-sargsyan-book-review-lloyd-meadhbh-houston/ |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=TLS |language=en-GB}}

The Forward Book of Poetry 2023 includes work by Adam Lowe as a "highly commended" poem.{{Cite web |title=Forward Book of Poetry |url=https://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry/forward-book-of-poetry/ |access-date=2 December 2023 |website=The Forward Poetry Foundation}}

In 2006, Lowe wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals for a hard house/trance single called 'Some Justice' with DJ GRH & Paul Maddox.{{cite web |title=DJ GRH & Paul Maddox Feat. Adam Lowe – Some Justice |url=https://www.discogs.com/DJ-GRH-Paul-Maddox-Feat-Adam-Lowe-Some-Justice/release/954503 |website=Discogs |date=21 September 2006 |access-date=20 November 2019}}

Lowe has taught for The Poetry School,{{cite news|url=https://poetryschool.com/our-news/meet-new-one-one-tutors/ |title=Meet Our New One-to-One Tutors! |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London|publisher=Poetry School}} English PEN,{{cite news|url=https://www.englishpen.org/outreach/our-workshop-facilitators/ |title=Our workshop facilitators |access-date=16 July 2019 |location=London}} the University of Leeds and the University of Central Lancashire.Adam Lowe, 'Alumni Profile: Alison Lowe', Leeds: The Magazine for Alumni of the University of Leeds, 19 (2018), 35. Through Young Enigma, he has worked with and supported writers such as Andrew McMillan and Afshan D'souza Lodhi.{{cite web |title=Young Enigma – publications |url=https://youngenigma.com/book |website=youngenigma.com |access-date=20 November 2019}}{{cite web |title=Young Enigma – Progress, a poetry tour of Manchester by Andrew McMillan |url=https://youngenigma.com/progress |website=youngenigma.com |access-date=20 November 2019}} Young Enigma writers have performed alongside Patience Agbabi, Gerry Potter and Jackie Kay.{{cite news |last1=Mackenzie-Smith |first1=Stevie |title=Queer Contact: Partying political |url=https://www.creativetourist.com/articles/festivals-and-events/manchester/queer-contact-partying-political/ |access-date=20 November 2019 |publisher=Creative Tourist |date=28 January 2014}}{{cite web |title=Young Enigma – Events |url=https://youngenigma.com/events |website=youngenigma.com |access-date=20 November 2019}}

He was a Slate Enabler for Eclipse Theatre, advocating for BAME artists in Greater Manchester; and is currently chair of Black Gold Arts, a charity which primarily mentors and supports QTIPOC artists in the region.

• 2023: Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Patterflash, Summer 2023{{Cite web |last=Mullen |first=Alice |date=3 March 2023 |title=Announcing the Summer Selections |url=https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/announcing-the-summer-selections-3 |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=The Poetry Book Society |language=en}}
• 2013: LGBT+ History Month Poet Laureate
• 2013: LS13 Awards: '20 best writers under 40' in Leeds{{cite news |last1=Lake |first1=John |title=LS13: A New Generation of Leeds Writers edited by Wes Brown |url=https://theculturevulture.co.uk/all/ls13-a-new-generation-of-leeds-writers-edited-by-wes-brown/ |access-date=21 November 2019 |work=The Culture Vulture |date=30 September 2013}}
• 2012: Yorkshire's Poet for 2012

• The Forward Book of Poetry 2024 (Faber & Faber, 2024)
• Patterflash (Peepal Tree Press, 2023)
• The World Reimagined, edited by Adam Lowe (The World Reimagined, 2022)
• What Primary Care Practitioners Need to Know about the New NICE Guideline for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adults, with Caroline Kingdon, Charles Shepherd and Luis Nacul (Healthcare 2022, 10: 12, 2438){{Cite journal |last1=Kingdon |first1=Caroline |last2=Lowe |first2=Adam |last3=Shepherd |first3=Charles |last4=Nacul |first4=Luis |year=2022 |title=What Primary Care Practitioners Need to Know about the New NICE Guideline for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adults |journal=Healthcare |language=en |volume=10 |issue=12 |pages=2438 |doi=10.3390/healthcare10122438 |doi-access=free |issn=2227-9032 |pmc=9778354 |pmid=36553962}}
• 100 Queer Poems, edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan (Vintage, 2022)
• More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry, edited by Kayo Chingonyi (Canongate, 2021)
• Magma 75: The Loss Issue, edited by Adam Lowe and Yvonne Reddick (Magma Poetry, 2019)
• Best British Poetry 2015, edited by Roddy Lumsden (Salt Publishing, 2015)
• Spoke: New Queer Voices (as editor) (Fruit Bruise Press, 2015)
• Ten: The New Wave, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf (Bloodaxe Books, 2014)
• LS13: A New Generation of Leeds Writers, edited by Wes Brown (Valley Press, 2013)
• Black and Gay in the UK, edited by John R. Gordon and Rikki Beadle Blair (Team Angelica Publishing, 2014)
• Best New Writing 2012: The Winners of the Eric Hoffer Prize for Prose (Hopewell Publications, 2012)
• Precocious (Fruit Bruise Press, 2012)

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