Use your writing to explore personal identity and the intersections that shape us.


Use your writing to explore personal identity and the intersections that shape us.
Gboyega: Locating selfhood, seen-ness, and invisibility in Adam. Decent.
Blow-up to glow-up; use non-traditional means to make magic fragmented poems.
Risk and reward – saying un-sayable things.
In this series, we interview our tutors about poetry queries. Here’s Abbi Parcell discussing the idea of whether poetry can be taught.
Read MoreTo celebrate our launch of the Laurel Prize 2025, we are proud to present a beautiful blog and four stunning new poems from our Summit Poet in Residence, Sammy Weaver. In October 2024, over two hundred people and over twenty leading poets gathered for Summit, our festival devoted to ecopoetry and nature writing, with our…
Read MorePoetry is a way to explore who we are, where we belong, and a means to create identity and meaning in a fragmented world. This season, we’re offering three transformative courses designed to deepen your craft and perspective: 1. Women, Writing, and Place Use your writing to explore personal identity and the intersections that shape us.In this…
Read MoreWelcome to our Writers’ Notes for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist. These are educational resources for poets looking to develop their practice and learn from some of contemporary poetry’s most exciting and accomplished voices. Here’s Karen McCarthy Woolf on her book Top Doll. Top Doll took me the best part of a decade to complete, so…
Read MoreYou’ve just completed a Poetry School course and have written and edited a few new poems, so what now? Here are some places to publish and submit your poetry. Submitting your poems to a magazine, journal, or press is the first step to sharing your work with an audience and building up a readership, which…
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