Shazea Quraishi Zoom Seminar 2024/25
Intimate monthly seminars with Shazea Qurahishi on Zoom.
* This Seminar will take place on the video-conferencing platform, ZOOM *
This monthly online seminar with Shazea Quraishi offers an encouraging and inspiring space to explore your personal poetics through writing, reading and discussion around contemporary poetry. Sessions include feedback on your poems-in-progress and conversation around craft, inspiration and next steps for you and your work.
With a maximum of eight students in each group, these seminars provide an intimate setting and generate supportive and critical friendships, helping you to become part of a poetry community.
Entry into this group is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please email [email protected] for information and we will assist you in the application process.
Do not book online before applying.
8 x monthly sessions between November and June. Classes will run Monday 6.30–9pm on Zoom and take place on the following dates.
04-Nov
02-Dec
06-Jan
03-Feb
03-Mar
07-Apr
05-May
02-Jun
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
About Shazea Quraishi 
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Shazea Quraishi is a Pakistani-born Canadian poet and translator based in London. Her poems have appeared in UK and US publications including The Guardian, Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation & The Hudson Review, and anthologised in Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, Mapping the Future: the Complete Works Poets, and The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, among others. Her books include The Glimmer (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), The Taxidermist (Verve Poetry Press, 2020), The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) and The Courtesans Reply (flipped eye publishing, 2012).
Shazea is a trustee on the board of English PEN, and on the committee of the Poetry and Spoken Word Group of the Society of Authors. A Complete Works I alumna, she runs workshops with Poetry Studio, and is a tutor with the Poetry School and RHACC School of Ideas. She is also an ongoing artist in residence with Living Words, an arts and literature organisation that works with marginalised people impacted by a dementia or ongoing mental health concerns. www.shazeaquraishi.com.
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