Join me between 5-16 January for ten 30 min/mid-week workshops from 7:30-8am (with recordings available each day a for those in another time zone/who wish to write later in the day) all for £25. Cameras off, coffee and pen in hand - I hope you’ll join us!
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Calling writers - my January short course is running from 5-16th Jan (£25). We’ll pack a lot into these sessions - a warm up, craft discussion (for editing practice), and three poems and prompts in 30 minutes. Join us to kick-start your writing in 2026! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...
Calling writers - my January short course is running from 5-16th Jan (£25). We’ll pack a lot into these sessions - a warm up, craft discussion (for editing practice), and three poems and prompts in 30 minutes. Join us to kick-start your writing in 2026! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...
Writer friends, I’m reading a new crown of sonnets (about watching war in your homeland from afar) at Push the Boat out on Sunday at 11am - this work was HARD to write in a time when it’s HARD to be an immigrant. Please help spread the word and do come along!
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Last 4 places! As the cottages are full, we’ve added 2 places in Stables House for the John Glenday and Naomi Shihab-Nye retreats at Galloway House Estate (Scotland) in 2026. Dating from 1740, GHE encompasses 600 acres of fields, seashore and woodlands. DM for more info! www.gallowayhouseestate.org
“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?”
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
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I loved this poem too.
Join Marjorie’s Table for ten mornings in early January to get your writing practice off to the right start in 2026. Sessions will take place 7:30-8am weekdays from 5-16th January, with recordings available most mornings by 9am. £25 for all ten workshops! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...
I’ve opened my books for a few more mentoring places.
How it works: send me up to six poems in a word document, and I’ll then send you notes on those poems before we meet on Zoom to discuss. (Cost is £175 per month, ideally for 6 months.)
DM or email via marjorielotfi.com for more information!
Join Marjorie’s Table for ten mornings in early January to get your writing practice off to the right start in 2026. Sessions will take place 7:30-8am weekdays from 5-16th January, with recordings available most mornings by 9am. £25 for all ten workshops! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...
Wednesday mornings, 30-40 writers gather online (cameras off, cameras on, always with coffee) for Marjorie’s Table. We look briefly at craft then write - poetry or prose or essay or memoir - to 3 prompts. Join us for £8 per month via Marjorie’s Table on Substack: substack.com/@marjorielot...
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Thank you Sarah!
Only a handful of places left on our 2026 retreats at Galloway House Estate - if you’re tempted, now’s the time to snap one up! More information here: www.gallowayhouseestate.org/copy-of-retr...
In this complicated time for immigrants, I’m reading poems about Iran at the Wigtown Bool Festival on Wednesday 1 October at 4:30pm. I’d LOVE to see you there! tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events...
I remember the horror on a friend’s face when I admitted (30 years ago, when we were all broke) that I couldn’t face peeling the little ones in the middle and just threw them in the bin!
Beautiful.
Do do! I’m feeling a Houdini poem coming on myself…
Looked at this cracker by @niallpoetry.bsky.social at Marjorie’s Table today - stunning. It’s here, with a couple of others: www.badlilies.uk/niall-campbell
The week after the Brexit vote, a patient said goodbye to a local doctor (born in UK to immigrant parents 50 years before) as they told him he'd have to 'go back home' now.
Offended by a poem? Sounds like you’re doing good work if you’ve hit a nerve. Hope you’re okay.
My short course of 10 midweek September workshops starts on Monday, now with a Forward Prize Shortlist Focus. £20. I hope you’ll join us! ⬇️
Thank you for your post! So kind. See you on Monday :)
My short course of 10 midweek September workshops starts on Monday, now with a Forward Prize Shortlist Focus. £20. I hope you’ll join us! ⬇️
This is your chance to try writing along with a recording of Marjorie’s Table - the link for today’s workshop on Zaffar Kunial’s poetry is OPEN TO EVERYONE here: substack.com/@marjorielot...
Today’s Marjorie’s Table session looked at the work of Leo Boix. The recording of the workshop is open to all here: open.substack.com/pub/marjorie... - enjoy!
Help me spread the word about these Marjorie's Table writing workshops - ten midweek workshops 1-12th September for £20.
And as usual, there's a free bursary place for anyone who needs one, no questions asked, no explanation needed. DM me for the code to use at checkout. shorturl.at/AxqWc
