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Courses for Winning Competitions

When working on a poem, you need to instantly hook a reader, make them feel something, and provide a fresh perspective on something universal. We have listed a range of courses that will help you dazzle on the page and think outside the box, which will help increase your chances of even winning competitions!

winning poetry competitions

Explore the meeting place between poetry and spell-casting and learn how to both tell and keep secrets in your writing. Starts 29 January.

Connecting the performative to your poetic, inspired by innovative contemporary practitioners. Starts 22 January.

Can we co-opt technological tools to take the house apart and see if there is a cybernetic meadow beneath? Starts 23 January.

Experiment with becoming and writing with other voices, then connect with each other to speak and create with these new transformations. Starts 11 February.

A weekly workshop for developing poets looking to improve their writing through feedback and close reading. Starts 6 February.

Revel in the upraised voices of peri and menopausal women and banish the taboo of writing about the life transition. Starts 2 March.

This course is currently sold out, so if you would like to be added to the waiting list please contact us at [email protected].

A radical new course exploring trans- & multilingual writing with the innovative Astrid Alben. Starts 14 February.

This course aims to stimulate the creation of contemporary love poems, using both traditional and newer poetic forms. Starts 14 February.

Join us in this poetry workshop to slow down, look within, experiment, and explore the subconscious. Starts 10 February.

Learn to capture a reader’s attention within seconds and leave them wanting more with Forward Prize-winning and T.S. Eliot Prize-nominated Isabelle Baafi! Starts 9 March.

If you unsure whether a course is right for you, please check our What to Expect page which includes some useful information on how they work. Alternatively, if a course has sold our or if you have any further queries please contact us at [email protected] and we would be happy to assist.

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