events
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Love and Terror - a week long online writing retreat with Caroline Bird and Rachel Long
A week-long online poetry retreat with Caroline Bird & Rachel Long exploring LOVE AND TERROR. Through prompts, close reading and 1:1 tutorials, discover how to hold tenderness and dread together, build tension, and write poems that haunt.
Residential Writing Course: Starting to Write - Play with words to find your own voice
A playful residential writing course with Caroline Bird & Mark Haddon. Take risks, blur genres, and find your voice through workshops, 1:1 feedback and community. Leave inspired, confident, and with a folder full of bold new work.ad together, build tension, and write poems that haunt.
HYPERFOCUS - PARENTS, 3-4 February 2026 (online workshops: Tues 7-9PM UK)
How do you write about a difficult parent, a complex upbringing, new parenthood, or loss? In this Hyperfocus segment, poets Caroline Bird and Jack Underwood explore writing poems shaped by the layered experiences of having and being a parent.
Residential Writing Course: Poetry: Thawing creative blocks
Join award-winning poets Caroline Bird, Romalyn Ante, and guest speaker Kostya Tsolakis for a winter week to melt creative blocks and reignite your writing. Gain clarity, confidence, and new tools to move your poetry forward and leave inspired for your 2026 writing journey.