Fortnightly Feedback with Zakia Carpenter-Hall

Knock loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback from poet, critic, and tutor, Zakia Carpenter-Hall.

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*

1 Oct – course start
15 Oct– 1st poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 22 Oct)
29 Oct – 2nd poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 5 Nov)
12 Nov – 3rd poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 19 Nov)
26 Nov – 4th poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 3 Dec)
10 Dec – 5th poem submission (feedback from tutor posted by 17 Dec)

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.

Concessions & Accessibility

To apply for a concession 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].

What to Expect

Please check the left hand side of this page for information on how this course works in practice, under the heading ‘Course Style‘. If you’re unsure as to what any of the terms there mean, or if this course is a good fit for you, please visit our What to Expect page which includes some further information on how our courses function.

About Zakia Carpenter-Hall View Profile

Zakia Carpenter-Hall is an American writer, tutor, editor and critic living in the UK. She was a winner of Poetry London’s inaugural mentoring scheme, a London Library Emerging Writer, and a Jerwood Bursary Recipient. She has been a Poet in Residence with the Scottish Poetry Library, in partnership with Africa in Motion and the Obsidian Foundation, which resulted in her ecopoetry film Human Ecologies (2021). She was interviewed on The Poetry Society Podcast and her poetry and reviews have both been published in Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, Wild Court, Magma and elsewhere with her first review published in Poetry London. Her most recent review was published in Jhalak Review (an insert in The Bookseller). Zakia was a contributing editor of Poetry Wales Issue 60.2 along with Kandace Siobhan Walker, and a part of the editorial team of Magma Issue 82, Obsidian along with editors Nick Makoha and Gboyega Odubanjo. Her poetry pamphlet Into the Same Sound Twice (Seren, 2023) is featured among TLC’s ‘Success Stories’ as well as reviewed in Buzz Mag, Gwales, and The Friday Poem. In addition to teaching at the Poetry School, she’s taught creative writing at Kingston University and Royal Holloway, University of London.

"This group really helped learn how to give and receive feedback. It was a very welcoming space for people new to writing."

- Spring 2025 Survey Response

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