Sascha Akhtar Zoom Seminars 2025/26
Intimate monthly seminars with Sascha Akhtar on Zoom.
* This Seminar will take place on the video-conferencing platform, ZOOM *
Monthly seminar groups with Sascha Akhtar, featuring close reading, in-depth discussion and feedback on your poems-in-progress, as well guidance on your next steps as a poet and conversation around contemporary poetry. 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 October and May. Classes will run on Saturdays 11am–1:30pm on Zoom and take place on the following dates.
11-Oct
8-Nov
13-Dec
10-Jan
14-Feb
14-Mar
11-Apr
9-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
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About Sascha Akhtar 
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Sascha Akhtar is a Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Greenwich. She performs internationally, some highlights include the Emirates Festival of Literature 2022 and Rotterdam Poetry Festival 2012. Latest writings appear in the Prototype Annual 4, Cut-Purse (Tangerine Press), Of Myths and Mothers anthology 2022, and Lucy Writers Platform. Akhtar has poetry forthcoming with both Intergraphia and Haverthorn Press and a book of translations from Urdu with Oxford University Press (2023).These follow on from six poetry collections, including The Grimoire of Grimalkin, (SALT, 2007), The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju (Emma Press 2019), and the innovative tarot deck of poetry Only Dying Sparkles (Zimzalla 2018). Akhtar has been facilitating teachings in magical practice and poetry at the Poetry School exclusively since 2018.
‘The seminars have been great for developing the poetic sense and editing skills. A very inclusive process. New friends made, new poets discovered.’