About this Event
NB: Please note this is a two‑part workshop, with the second workshop on Saturday 24 October from 10am to 4pm. By booking and attending the first session, you will be emailed the link to book session two.
Participants will need to bring pen and paper and a bottle of water. As this is an all‑day workshop, you are welcome to bring a light lunch, or there is a cafe available on site.
Award-winning poet, Jenny Mitchell, will facilitate two-part all day workshop poets who want to work on a pamphlet or collection before they submit it to publishers.
There will be a chance to workshop poems and to write news ones during the sessions.
How can we continue to be inspired when there are so many things calling on our attention?
What do we want to say in our work, and how can writing with others help us to say it?
Method: Participants will be offered time to share their work, and to read poems by established poets to inspire their writing.
This will all be done in a non-judgemental atmosphere.
Image Credit: Amber Perry
Jenny Mitchell is an award-winning writer with three poetry collections. The debut, Her Lost Language, was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize; her second collection, Map of a Plantation, won the Poetry Awards and is on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent collection, Resurrection of a Black Man, contains three prize-winning poems, and was featured on the US blog Poetry Unbound. She’s a Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.
Connect with Jenny via X and Bluesky: jennymitchellgo
If you have any accessibility requirements, please directly get in touch with us at [email protected]
Booking is essential and you will be asked to present your booking confirmation upon arrival.
Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are disruptive to a session.
NB: May feature content that some people may find upsetting, uses language or depicts scenes reflecting attitudes that are no longer seen as acceptable.
Pen to Print shall not be liable to attendees for any injury, loss or damage of or to personal equipment belonging to the attendees or any indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever arising out of the attendance of the event
Pen to Print reserves the right to cancel, delay or postpone the event for any reason, including adverse weather conditions, an emergency situation or unforeseen or unavoidable circumstances out of its reasonable control. In such cases, the event organiser will endeavour to inform participants as quickly as is possible.
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