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All lines lead to Manchester this morning for our pitching workshop with agents from Curtis Bown.
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
All lines lead to Manchester this morning for our pitching workshop with agents from Curtis Bown.
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Don’t miss the new episode with @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted poet Nick Makoha. We spoke about layered temporalities, founding the Obsidian Foundation, and treating ‘the poem’ like a painting.
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Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Don’t miss the new episode with @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted poet Nick Makoha. We spoke about layered temporalities, founding the Obsidian Foundation, and treating ‘the poem’ like a painting.
Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.
Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.
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A link www.instagram.com/reel/DP3Qxl7... to a reel on Insta about our @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social #otherhoodplay that toured #bradfordcityofculture. We had amazing feedback. Sorry it's on Insta. If you don't go there, I'm planning on writing something about the experience of making this show soon.
October 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A link www.instagram.com/reel/DP3Qxl7... to a reel on Insta about our @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social #otherhoodplay that toured #bradfordcityofculture. We had amazing feedback. Sorry it's on Insta. If you don't go there, I'm planning on writing something about the experience of making this show soon.
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This week The Poems We Made Along The Way series 5 began with an interview with George Szirtes. We spoke about translation, form and the exact moment George realised that he realised he wanted to write poems.
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Check it out linktr.ee/thepoemswemade
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November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This week The Poems We Made Along The Way series 5 began with an interview with George Szirtes. We spoke about translation, form and the exact moment George realised that he realised he wanted to write poems.
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Check it out linktr.ee/thepoemswemade
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Great episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way even if I do say so myself.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social
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Episode 32: Clare Pollard - "The poem itself is a haunted house"
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November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Great episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way even if I do say so myself.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
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So happy to be bringing my poetry collection to my hometown of Wigan 😊
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Local Poet Signing and Reading | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Local Poet Signing and Reading today.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
So happy to be bringing my poetry collection to my hometown of Wigan 😊
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All lines lead to Manchester this morning for our Squad 12 character workshop with the Core Team’s Emma Adams - all leavened with a few grads!
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
All lines lead to Manchester this morning for our Squad 12 character workshop with the Core Team’s Emma Adams - all leavened with a few grads!
Heather Chapman has been published in a new anthology 'Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire's Castle'.
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Heather Chapman published in new anthology - The Writing Squad
Heather Chapman is one of ten poets featured in a new anthology from sidekick books. “Enter freely and of your own will!” After a hellish coach ride up a mountain pass, each of our ten poets crosses…
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October 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Heather Chapman has been published in a new anthology 'Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire's Castle'.
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Laura Attridge has been interviewed for Opera Now in Gramaphone. www.writingsquad.com/laura-attrid...
Laura Attridge interviewed in Opera Now - The Writing Squad
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October 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Laura Attridge has been interviewed for Opera Now in Gramaphone. www.writingsquad.com/laura-attrid...
Sadie Pearson has been longlisted for the Women's Playwriting Prize
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Sadie Pearson longlisted for Women’s Playwriting Prize - The Writing Squad
Sadie Pearson play VENUS: THE BODY has been longlisted for the Women’s Playwriting Prize. The Women’s Prize for Playwriting was founded in 2019 to champion and produce plays by female and non-binary…
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October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Sadie Pearson has been longlisted for the Women's Playwriting Prize
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Sadie Pearson longlisted for Women's Playwriting Prize
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Sadie Pearson longlisted for Women’s Playwriting Prize - The Writing Squad
Sadie Pearson play VENUS: THE BODY has been longlisted for the Women’s Playwriting Prize. The Women’s Prize for Playwriting was founded in 2019 to champion and produce plays by female and non-binary…
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October 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sadie Pearson longlisted for Women's Playwriting Prize
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Carmen et Error Issue 13.5 is out today, featuring work from
🛏️ Patricia Russo
🦌 Alex McCrickard
🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social
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🛏️ Patricia Russo
🦌 Alex McCrickard
🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social
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Issue 13.5 - Carmen et Error
No Blanketsby Patricia Russo They wanted the bed to be comfortable. It was the most they could do. Not the only, but the most. But there were no more blankets left in the world, and the birds no longe...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Carmen et Error Issue 13.5 is out today, featuring work from
🛏️ Patricia Russo
🦌 Alex McCrickard
🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social
carmenerror.com?page_id=606
🛏️ Patricia Russo
🦌 Alex McCrickard
🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social
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Great news from us!!
Alexa von Hirschberg, publishing director of W&N, has joined the board of The Writing Squad as chair 👇 #BookSky
Alexa von Hirschberg joins board of The Writing Squad as chair
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October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great news from us!!
Heather Chapman is Verve Poetry's Poem of the Month www.writingsquad.com/heather-chap...
Heather Chapman Verve Poetry’s poem of the month - The Writing Squad
Each month, Verve Poetry Festival interview a poet behind Poem of the Month, their rolling competition for the poetry community. In September, that poem was ‘Unsent Letter as a Means of…
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October 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Heather Chapman is Verve Poetry's Poem of the Month www.writingsquad.com/heather-chap...
Helen Bowell joins team at Fourteen Poems as Co-editor www.writingsquad.com/helen-bowell...
Helen Bowell joins Fourteen Poems as Co-editor - The Writing Squad
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October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Helen Bowell joins team at Fourteen Poems as Co-editor www.writingsquad.com/helen-bowell...
All the chaotic and roundabout lines lead to Newcastle today for our artist’s book making workshop with Stevie Ronnie
October 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
All the chaotic and roundabout lines lead to Newcastle today for our artist’s book making workshop with Stevie Ronnie
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Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...
September 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...
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Delighted that the work we've been publishing in our micro-journal, Carmen et Error, is getting the recognition it deserves! @corinnaboard.bsky.social's brilliant poem 'A dunnock's prayer' was highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes!
October 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Delighted that the work we've been publishing in our micro-journal, Carmen et Error, is getting the recognition it deserves! @corinnaboard.bsky.social's brilliant poem 'A dunnock's prayer' was highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes!
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The last episode of this series of The Poems We Made Along The Way is with the excellent Mary Jean Chan. We spoke about book structure, the intersections of queer poetry and line breaks.
Check out the conversation wherever podcasts can be heard.
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Check out the conversation wherever podcasts can be heard.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The last episode of this series of The Poems We Made Along The Way is with the excellent Mary Jean Chan. We spoke about book structure, the intersections of queer poetry and line breaks.
Check out the conversation wherever podcasts can be heard.
Linktr.ee/thepoemswemade
Check out the conversation wherever podcasts can be heard.
Linktr.ee/thepoemswemade
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A poem from this week’s guest on The Poems We Made Along The Way.
Always worth checking out a poem from Mary Jean Chan.
Always worth checking out a poem from Mary Jean Chan.
An excerpt from 'Grass' by Mary Jean Chan, which is featured in the latest issue of The Poetry Review and available to read in full for free on our website. 📚
October 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A poem from this week’s guest on The Poems We Made Along The Way.
Always worth checking out a poem from Mary Jean Chan.
Always worth checking out a poem from Mary Jean Chan.
Nasim Rebecca Asl named one of @theskinnymag Next Generation of Scottish Writers www.writingsquad.com/nasim-rebecc...
Nasim Rebecca Asl one of Next Generation of Scottish Writers - The Writing Squad
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October 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Nasim Rebecca Asl named one of @theskinnymag Next Generation of Scottish Writers www.writingsquad.com/nasim-rebecc...
Don't forget to book your free tickets to Rewrite, featuring Squad Writers Elizabeth Gibson and Tallulah Howarth with @McrLitFest 16th October at 6:30pm at @anthonyburgess www.writingsquad.com/event/rewrit...
ReWrite - The Writing Squad
Discover new voices from Manchester and Denmark as writers Elizabeth Gibson, Tallulah Howarth, Asta Birkler, Loc-An Thi Nguyen, Cody Sander and Johanne Bisgaard share new work exploring the impact of…
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October 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Don't forget to book your free tickets to Rewrite, featuring Squad Writers Elizabeth Gibson and Tallulah Howarth with @McrLitFest 16th October at 6:30pm at @anthonyburgess www.writingsquad.com/event/rewrit...
All lines lead to the Castle Museum York today for a strange poems and alternative histories with Squad grad Kym Deyn!
October 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
All lines lead to the Castle Museum York today for a strange poems and alternative histories with Squad grad Kym Deyn!
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Why is it that MPs feel more overwhelmed than ever by their inboxes and messages from constituents, but most constituents they don't feel like they ever hear from their MP, and have less trust than ever in them?
Find out why & how to fix it our paper published today 👇
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Find out why & how to fix it our paper published today 👇
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A two-way street: The decline of the MP-Constituent relationship - and how to fix it
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Why is it that MPs feel more overwhelmed than ever by their inboxes and messages from constituents, but most constituents they don't feel like they ever hear from their MP, and have less trust than ever in them?
Find out why & how to fix it our paper published today 👇
demos.co.uk/research/a-t...
Find out why & how to fix it our paper published today 👇
demos.co.uk/research/a-t...
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I published Anthony Cartwright's novella in micro-fiction via @thebraag.bsky.social yesterday! It's incredible, deeply weird, searching, moving through alternate histories, leviatha as industrial process, capitalism as death cult, all deepy moored in the landscape of the black country.
September 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I published Anthony Cartwright's novella in micro-fiction via @thebraag.bsky.social yesterday! It's incredible, deeply weird, searching, moving through alternate histories, leviatha as industrial process, capitalism as death cult, all deepy moored in the landscape of the black country.