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Speak Up! On writing, failing better, and taking up space

Kate Potts

A newsletter about creative writing and everyday life

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Turning Up

Last week I took part in two events at the Dobunni Poetry Festival, Stroud’s new festival of poetry, community and place, organised by the extraordinarily determined and energetic Dialect team and Gloucestershire Poetry Society. On Friday m...

7 days ago
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Scraps, Fragments and Time Machines

This September in Poetical Workshop we were lucky enough to have artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer as our guest poet. Sophie led a brilliant hands-on workshop on collage and erasure and gave us some wonderful insights into her process, incl...

19 days ago
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On Starting Out, With Trepidation

For at least a year now, probably quite a bit longer, I’ve had a new writing project in mind. In my poems, I’ve returned a few times over the years to images of my grandfather, who was diagnosed with manic depression (what we now call bipol...

a month ago
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Running Back

When, in my early thirties, I first started running, I thought it was horribly masochistic drudgery. But, as I’d been urged to, I kept trying in short, regular bursts. Gradually another experience began to emerge. My body started to feel st...

2 months ago
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The Long Game

When I was a teenager, I announced that I wanted to be a writer. ‘Journalist’, my dad said, thinking practically. I spent two long weeks of work experience at my local newspaper, painstakingly typing up news reports about school fetes and t...

2 months ago
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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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