Penny Boxall Wymondham Seminar (2026/27)
Intimate monthly seminars with Penny Boxall in Wymondham.
Monthly seminar groups with Penny Boxall in Wymondham, featuring close reading, in-depth discussion and feedback on your poems-in-progress, as well as conversation around contemporary poetry and guidance on your next steps as a poet. 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 your local poetry community.
Entry into the seminars 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 at The Wymondham Heritage Museum (NR18 0NS). Sessions will run Saturday 1.30–4pm on the below dates:
10-Oct
7-Nov
5-Dec
16-Jan
13-Feb
13-Mar
10-Apr
22-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
About Penny Boxall 
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Penny Boxall has held Royal Literary Fund Fellowships at Lucy Cavendish College (University of Cambridge) and the University of York, and is now an RLF Bridge Fellow. Her collections are Ship of the Line (Edwin Morgan Award winner, 2016), Who Goes There?, and In Praise of Hands (with artist Naoko Matsubara, published by the Ashmolean Museum in 2020). The Curiosities, her pamphlet with New Walk Editions, came out in 2024. She won the 2018 Mslexia/PBS International Women’s Poetry Competition, and has held various fellowships and residencies, including at Merton College (Oxford), Hawthornden Castle, Gladstone’s Library, Cove Park, and Château de Lavigny. She has held UNESCO Cities of Literature residencies in Tartu, Estonia (2022/2023) and Kraków, Poland (2023).
She has taught on the MA in Poetry at Oxford Brookes University, adapted medieval texts with local groups for performance, co-written a play for Magdalen College School (Oxford), and created new works for Bodø European Capital of Culture 2024.
She enjoys working collaboratively, and recently performed Replaying the Tape – a new word/music/tape performance about chance and evolution – with percussionist Jane Boxall and palaeontologist Frankie Dunn. She also writes fiction for children aged 9–12. She received funding from Arts Council England for the development of her debut middle-grade novel, Letty and the Mystery of the Golden Thread, which was published by Puffin in 2025, followed by Letty and the Mystery of the Word Thieves in 2026.
"Penny was very astute! Giving a well measured and nicely balanced amount of constructive feedback, and just enough of a nudge to go back and re-edit (again!)"
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