Fortnightly Feedback with Penny Boxall
Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, teacher, and children's writer, Penny Boxall.
Do you have a heap of poems that just won’t work, no matter how many revisions you make? Our Fortnightly Feedback course provides a place for improvement of left-for-dead poems in need of resuscitation. Submit drafts once a fortnight for advice and feedback from your peers, before giving a final draft to the tutor for detailed comment, criticism, and direction. These courses are ideal for those looking to get a selection of poems ready for magazine submission.
*This is a feedback-only course, with no generative assignments, intended for workshopping pre-existing poems*
9 May – course start
23 May– 1st poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 30 May)
6 June – 2nd poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 13 June)
20 June – 3rd poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 27 June)
4 July – 4th poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 11 July)
18 July – 5th poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 25 July)
Submit 5 poems (no more than 1 side of A4 per poem) for detailed feedback over the 11 weeks. No live chats. Suitable for UK & International students.
To apply for a concessionary rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected]. Conditions of eligibility are detailed here. If you have any questions or wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, please email [email protected]. For more information visit our Online Courses page.
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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). 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 is published by Puffin in February 2025.
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