About this Event
Please note this event has been rescheduled from 26 October 6.00pm, to 23 November 5.30pm.
Everyone Started Singing - Poetry and Community
A Creative Writing Workshop for Black History Month
Join award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell for a stimulating workshop that uses poetry as a way to write about community and what it means to you. What do you love about it, and what might need to change?
Jenny will offer creative prompts in a non-judgemental atmosphere.
Open to all new and experienced writers. Free copies of the poetry anthology ‘Everyone Started Singing’ will also be available.
The workshop is followed by a poetry reading and open mic event 6.45pm – 7.30pm. Sign up on the day.
These events celebrate the London launch of a new poetry anthology, Everyone Started Singing, Poems about Community. Published by Cork City Libraries. Edited by Jenny Mitchell.
Jenny Mitchell is an award-winning poet with three collections: Her Lost Language was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Prize, Map of a Plantation won the Poetry Book Awards and is on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan University; and Resurrection of a Black Man contains three prize-winning poems.
She’s performed at the Houses of Parliament, and was the Inaugural Poet-in-the-Community at Cork City Libraries. In 2026, she edited the poetry anthology Everyone Started Singing: Poems About Community. She was also awarded an Author’s Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors, and won an Arthur Welton Award.
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Westminster Music Library, 35 Saint Martin's Street, London, United Kingdom
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