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Marjorie Lotfi

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Writer (The Wrong Person to Ask/ Bloodaxe Books, Forward Prize, James Berry Award, Saltire Prize Shortlist) Co-Founder/Director Open Book, Mentor, writing retreats at Galloway House Estate

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Marjorie's Table January Short-Course Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 5-16th January to kick-start your writing practice in 2026

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!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...

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Marjorie's Table January Short-Course Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 5-16th January to kick-start your writing practice in 2026

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-...

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Marjorie's Table January Short-Course Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 5-16th January to kick-start your writing practice in 2026

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-...

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Poetry as Exile: Marjorie Lotfi and Najwan Darwish - Buy tickets The experience of creating art from afar when your homeland is in conflict is uniquely challenging. Najwan Darwish and Marjorie Lotfi will each present new work considering this theme, especially comm...

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!

www.citizenticket.com/events/push-...

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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

20.11.2025 18:57 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Marjorie Lotfi | WritersMosaic Magazine Forward Prize winner 2024 for The Wrong Person to Ask, Lotfi moved to Tehran as a baby from the US and fled during the Iranian Revolution

“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
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...

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I loved this poem too.

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Marjorie's Table January Short-Course Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 5-16th January to kick-start your writing practice in 2026

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-...

22.10.2025 10:04 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
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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!

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Marjorie's Table January Short-Course Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 5-16th January to kick-start your writing practice in 2026

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-...

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Marjorie Lotfi | Substack Facilitator of Marjorie's Table Weekly Workshops, Writer (Forward Prize Best First Collection 2024, PBS Special Commendation - The Wrong Person to Ask, Bloodaxe Books), Mentoring & Retreats Galloway H...

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...

08.10.2025 13:58 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Today! tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events...

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❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you Sarah!

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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...

24.09.2025 14:01 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Marjorie Lotfi, Iran and Other Stories

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...

21.09.2025 10:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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!

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Beautiful.

03.09.2025 11:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Do do! I’m feeling a Houdini poem coming on myself…

02.09.2025 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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

02.09.2025 11:48 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

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.

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Offended by a poem? Sounds like you’re doing good work if you’ve hit a nerve. Hope you’re okay.

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Marjorie's Table in Sept - 10 Workshops to Revive Your Writing Practice Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 1-12th September, exploring the 2025 Forward Prize shortlist

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! ⬇️

28.08.2025 18:12 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Thank you for your post! So kind. See you on Monday :)

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Marjorie's Table in Sept - 10 Workshops to Revive Your Writing Practice Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 1-12th September, exploring the 2025 Forward Prize shortlist

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! ⬇️

28.08.2025 18:12 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Zaffar Kunial: OPEN TO ALL SESSION Links from Marjorie's Table 27th August & September Short Course Recording and poem links, warm up words and the final prompt from today's creative writing session using the work of Zaffar Kunial, and how to sign up for daily sessions September 1st-12th

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...

27.08.2025 10:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Miriam Toews & Marjorie Lotfi: Can Words Repair? From Sun 24 Aug - Today, Miriam Toews and Marjorie Lotfi discuss the potential of language – as a salve, an answer, and a way to help us through…

Today! ⬇️ www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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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!

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Marjorie's Table in Sept - Ten Workshops to Revive Your Writing Practice Rediscover your writing practice with Marjorie's Table in September - ten midweek 7:30-8am workshops, with recordings, Sept 1-13

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

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