What Next? with Wayne Holloway-Smith (Advanced) [Summer 2024]
Challenge yourself, elevate your writing, and take the next steps in your poetry career.
* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM *
So, you’ve been writing poems and developing your practice for a while, but have started wondering what comes next? This course will present the many different options now open to you, giving you a space to experiment, push your writing into new territories, and develop your reading, writing, and critical practices. As part of this Advanced course, you’ll be welcomed into a close-knit community of critical peers, who will help to elevate your work, challenge your thinking, and introduce you to writers at contemporary poetry’s cutting edge. If you’ve started bringing together a portfolio of your work, entering competitions, and taken some steps towards publication then this is the group for you.
Over each term, prize-winning tutor Wayne Holloway-Smith will guide you through some of the most exciting poetry being written today, lead feedback discussions of your own work, and offer individually-tailored advice on the next steps in your poetry career.
10 weekly Zoom sessions on Mondays, 6.45–8.45pm (GMT), starts 13 May 2024. This is the third of a three-term course and all places are currently reserved for continuing students, who have a 2-week Priority Booking period. Any remaining places will be made available to new students on 11 March. Please note: Entry to this course is by application only. If you would like to join, please send a submission of three poems to [email protected]
Concessions & Accessibility
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, wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, or require any form of adjustment to access our courses, please email [email protected]. For more information visit our Video Courses 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.
‘Wayne helped me develop my poetry and my appreciation of other poets’ work, tremendously. He was always open to questions and discussion in a way that helped me develop my critical thinking about poetics. He encourages an ethos of giving constructive feedback in the group.’