Wayne Holloway-Smith Seminars 2025/26
Intimate monthly seminars with Wayne Holloway-Smith.
* This Seminar will take place on the video-conferencing platform, ZOOM *
Monthly seminar groups with Wayne Holloway-Smith, 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 seven students in each group, these seminars provide an intimate setting and generate supportive and critical friendships.
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 between October and May. Sessions will run on Saturdays 11am–1.30pm on the below dates and times.
4-Oct
1-Nov
6-Dec
3-Jan
7-Feb
7-Mar
4-Apr
2-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
About Wayne Holloway-Smith 
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Wayne Holloway-Smith has published two collections of poetry, Alarum (Bloodaxe 2017), a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice, and Love Minus Love (Bloodaxe 2020), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He won the National Poetry Competition in 2018. Additionally, his pocketbook, Beloved, in case you’ve been wondering was published by Donut Press in 2011; I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE WENDING, an experimental unbound book of poems, was published by Prototype in 2018; his latest work, Lobsters, was published by Makina Books in 2021. He is currently the editor for Poetry Review.
‘I have enjoyed getting to know the other writers and seeing how their writing has developed. It is very good to have insights into how others write and think.’