Greta Stoddart Bridport Seminar 2025/26
Intimate monthly seminars with Greta Stoddart in Bridport.
Monthly seminar groups with Greta Stoddart, 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 seven 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 this group is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please contact [email protected] for further information and we will assist you in the application process. Do not book online before applying.
8 x monthly sessions between October and May. Sessions will take place in-person at The Bull Hotel, Bridport (DT6 3LF). Classes will take place on the following dates, running 2–4.30pm.
16-Oct
13-Nov
11-Dec
15-Jan
12-Feb
12-Mar
23-Apr
21-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
About Greta Stoddart 
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Greta Stoddart’s four poetry books (Anvil, Bloodaxe) have won or been shortlisted for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Forward, Roehampton and Costa Awards. Her long radio poem Who’s there? was BBC Pick of the Week and shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. She won a Cholmondeley Award in 2023.
Greta has been a poetry tutor for over 25 years, having taught at Morley College in London, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Bath Spa University. She has been Writer in Residence at Exeter University and Poetry Fellow at Warwick University. She lives in Devon.
‘I am grateful to Greta in many ways, as she has shown me how to improve, what works and what doesn't. She's very aware of the writing path each of us is on and encourages us to work hard at it to improve.’