Speak Up! On writing, failing better, and taking up space
Kate PottsA newsletter about creative writing and everyday life
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Beyond the Comfort Zone
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‘A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer, a ticket.’
— Edward Hirsch
Back in the autumn I had the pleasure of teaching Caroline Bird’s collection The Air Year with my Wise Women poetry group in Stroud. We loved th...
Beyond Chronology: free life writing workshop this Wednesday
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Many life writing projects don’t stall because of lack of material, but because they haven’t yet found the structure that suits them best.
If you have fragments — notes, drafts, pieces of memoir — and...
From Fragments to Form: a small, serious life writing group (6 places left - starts May 8th)
Most writers I work with have plenty of material: notebooks filled with scribblings, phrases, sentences, beginnings; experiences and memories that insist on telling.
Sometimes they have reams of drafts, but no clear sense of shape yet. Or...
A place to return to your poetry
Maybe your poetry happens in bursts—a few intense days every once in a while. Perhaps you have half-finished drafts, or lines you tinker with sometimes. Maybe you’re waiting for the right time to return to it.
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Sprouts! Shoots! Seedlings!
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Why Community Matters
In January this year, after much plotting, planning, testing and research, and a lot of steep learning curve, I launched Poetical Workshop: an online community for poets who...
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Creative writing mentor, editor and lecturer, and award-winning poet. Published by Bloodaxe Books. Solo mum based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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