Join me and Rachel Long for a week of ‘love and terror’, a week long online course for The Writing School, May 11th-15th. JOIN US (she said in terrifying yet lovely voice) thewritingschool.co.uk/love-and-ter...
@carolinebirduk.bsky.social and Rachel Long are teaming up to run a week long online writing retreat for The Writing School Online. It will be an amazing week writing about Love and Terror. Link for info and booking thewritingschool.co.uk/love-and-ter...
Great to have kick-started the 2026 festival. Lots of wonderful writing from the enthusiastic workshoppers!
Thanks to @dislaney.bsky.social & @candlestickpress.bsky.social for the supply of 'Ten Poems about Music'. A fantastic book that eased all participants into the poetry writing groove. ✍️
I’m really pleased to share that Dillon Jaxx and I are now looking after The Writing school. We can’t thank Ewan Monaghan enough for supporting the school. Dillon and I are hoping to build on what Kathryn started. Please follow the link to have a look thewritingschool.co.uk
Utterly right that there is now a poetry competition in Kathryn Bevis' name. Open now, closing date 30 April. All rules in the link.
I have been going to this group since Josh Hallam started leading it. Josh has created a friendly and encouraging group to read, discuss, write and share poetry. Link for tickets thewritingschool.co.uk/winter-schoo...
Actually the World’s Most Wuthering Heights Day
Why 500 people will dance today in celebration and in protest in Haworth, home to Wuthering Heights
By Clare Shaw
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful and thoughtful poem. Kathryn would have loved it 😀Ollie x
My poem for Kathryn Bevis is up now on the Poetry Wales site. I'm grateful to them for giving it a home in a place where Kathryn's work meant so much.
I know acrostics are old-fashioned, but I also know Kathryn would have appreciated one. I am speaking her name.
poetrywales.co.uk/the-oath-a-t...
Delighted with this glowing review and accurate interview in Waterways World. Though I giggled at 'Apart from some poetry volumes, this is Jo's first book.' It's book no.6 and poetry counts too!
In Leeds this Sunday? Please join me on the famous floating bookshop, Holdfast Books at 5pm to hear from my book BOATER and share a midsummer hour on the water www.facebook.com/share/r/1Aq7...
"What can you do? You have to laugh, you have to play, be a living example. You have to find the path the Green Man found, find your real place in the world. At any point in your life, you can become green again"
from “The Wildest Dream: an imagined history of the Green Man”, David Gee.
This arrived today, so it’s made it as far south as Winchester! I’m really looking forward to ‘Boater’ by @jobellwriter.sky.social
Everyone who joins us for evening readings at Welshpool Poetry Festival gets one of these made by the Pretender to the Throne ceramicist! ❤️🏴🎉
Every Welshpool Poetry Festival workshopper will get one of these lovely bags gifted by Angi Holden 🙏🏼
Great contemporary poetry to brighten your weekend 6/7 June
Congrats Di 💜💙❤️ ! @dislaney.bsky.social "Di Slaney wins Write Out Loud’s ‘Echoes’ competition with ‘Dolly Parton’s wig’ - in memory of a ‘dear friend and inspiration’" www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...
Tonight's "Nothing More Beautiful" online poetry workshop was a thing of wonder. Love and tears and fruit and loads of money raised for the Good Law Project's fight for trans rights.
The Kathryn Bevis Memorial Poetry Competition (1) 11 judges and 370 wonderful poems and many difficult decisions later we have chosen our winners and highly commended poems. First though, we would like to thank everyone who submitted and supported this project to remember our friend and poet Kathryn Bevis. We were delighted with the response. We would also like to thank The Writing School Online and The Alchemy Spoon for their support. Our four winners will be published in the next edition of The Alchemy Spoon and there will be an online event with readings from the winners. We are also pleased to have been able to donate £300 each to Jane Scarth House and Victoria's promise, two charities that supported Kathryn.
Here are our highly commended poets in no particular order
And our fantastic winners 🎉🎉😎
I'm giddy and overjoyed to have won 1st prize in the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize. It was a privilege to be included on a shortlist packed with incredible writers, and I hope I get to read all of those poems at some point. Sincere thanks to the judges, I'm feeling very grateful.
Poetry Comp? Less than a month now to enter welshpoolpoetryfestival.org.uk
Win some £ and these 6 lovely Candlestick titles!
Photo of a dark sky with a few stars shining through the clouds.
Following her memorial celebration earlier this week, today’s Friday Poem is ‘The Darkening’ by Kathryn Bevis from her collection ‘The Butterfly House’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/04/frid...
Today, with a big grin, I announce my new book. BOATER is out in June with HarperNorth. It's a memoir of my twenty years afloat; joyful, sad and a little wise. History, heartbreak and adventure on the low seas - pre-order now if you can, and spread the word?
www.amazon.co.uk/Boater-excit...
This is full (sold out in 24 hours - wish I'd seen this yesterday!) but they are working on adding more tickets. There is a waitlist we can join.
Seren and Poetry Wales have put this together to celebrate Kathryn’s work. Huge thanks to them and to all the wonderful poets who will be reading. Eventbrite link is www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
Something for the budding female and non-binary poets out there. This competition in the name of my friend Kathryn Bevis, a wonderful and inspiring poet who died last year, is now live. Please spread the word! thewritingschool.co.uk/entry-x-3-fo...
