Holloway-Smith's first poetry publication was the pamphlet Beloved, in case you've been wondering, published by Donut Press in 2011.
[citation needed] The final poem in the collection – "Short" – won the Geoffrey Dearmer Award in 2016.
[1] His second pamphlet, I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE WENDING, was published by Test Centre in 2018.
[1] His poem "the posh mums are boxing in the square" won the National Poetry Competition in 2018.
[5] Holloway-Smith is also a lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire.