Speak Up! On writing, failing better, and taking up space
Kate PottsA newsletter about creative writing and everyday life
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Gathering In: reading your poems as a body of work
It’s not quite harvest time yet, but summer is a time when, for many of us, day job work slows down or pauses, or we travel beyond our usual everyday environment, and we might have a little more time and brain space to contemplate our creat...
How I Discovered I'm a Life Writer
Image: Ignat Kushnarev, Unsplash
When Juliette Morton, co-director of Dialect, asked if I’d consider teaching life writing, my immediate thought was that she’d asked the wrong person. I’d taught memoir and creative nonfiction before, but i...
The Art of Revision: From First Notes to Polished Poem
Image: Muhammad Haikal, Unsplash
A few months ago I wrote a short post, Shaping the Draft: From First Notes to Polished Poem, to introduce a free workshop. This essay returns to those ideas, taking a more in-depth look at what revision act...
Image Constellations
‘Every image embodies a way of seeing.’
- John Berger
Image: Alex Simpson, Unsplash
Last week in my life writing mentoring group, we looked at the role of image and motif in shaping a project.
For life writers, sometimes, the idea...
Serious Nonsense and Serious Play
Image: Igor Omilaev on Unplash
‘Do not forget’, says Wittgenstein, ‘that a poem, even though it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language-game of giving information.’
— Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic A...
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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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