About this Event
This fun, active and low-pressure set of workshops is designed to get you weaving comedy into your poetry writing, performance and even editing!
You are welcome to attend just one or two of the sessions, but we definitely recommend the full experience of all three! You can bring the work you started in Workshop 1 all the way through performance to editing it in Workshop 3!
Here’s how each week will work:
Workshop 1 (7th April): Using comedy prompts for poetry
Designed to get you writing and chatting to other poets, plus thinking about persona in comedy and in poetry. How does that change how you write? Let’s find out…
Workshop 2 (14th April): How stand-up can shape poetry performance
We’ve got a gorgeous performance space in the new Wandsworth Morocco Bound, and we are going to use it! This session’s all about how stand-up tricks can enhance your poetry performance and confidence. Come along ready to share!
Workshop 3 (21st April): How performance can help us edit
Performance is the best way to edit comedy and poetry. Keep stumbling over that word? It’s gotta go! People keep laughing at that phrase? Make space in the piece for the laughter, I’ll show you how…
About the tutor
Suchandrika Chakrabarti is a writer and performer from London. She has been shortlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize (2025), and longlisted for The London Library Emerging Writers Programme (2025). She gave a lightning talk, "ChatGPT, Rewrite Me Like One Of Your French Girls," at the 2025 Lyra Poetry / AI Symposium in Bristol, and has performed her poetry at London Literature Week 2025.
Publications include the Bournemouth Writing Prize Anthology (2025), the micro-poetry collection hatred is not a bitter fruit, and the hand-printed limited-edition leporello The Horizonary A to Z: A Collaboration.
Her poetry and performances have been chosen to accompany art exhibitions at the Royal Festival Hall (in partnership with Koestler Arts) and the Hayward Gallery (Chiharu Shiota’s central installation for Threads of Life). Suchandrika is a member of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective (2024-25), and she has just completed her first book, the heartbreak of having it all.
Outside of poetry, Suchandrika is a former national newspaper journalist and current comedy writer, who has taken two solo shows to Edinburgh Fringe, the first supported by Soho Theatre. She has written for BBC One’s Have I Got News For You since 2023, and on Radio 4 topical comedies since 2020. Her debut TV comedy pilot, Hologram Dad, is in development.
IMPORTANT LOCATION INFORMATION:
This event will take place at our beautiful new space at New Acres in Wandsworth. It's on a new development so Google Maps hasn't quite caught up with us - the nearest station is Wandsworth Town. If you have any doubts, please drop us an email for directions and we'll make sure you get there!
Address: Morocco Bound Wandsworth, 3a Pilot's Walk, New Acres, Wandsworth, SW1A 1UZ
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Morocco Bound Bookshop Wandsworth, 3A PILOT'S WALK, London, United Kingdom
GBP 11.55 to GBP 18.04
