Marjorie Lotfi
@marjorielotfi.bsky.social
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
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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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...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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-...
www.citizenticket.com/events/push-...
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
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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
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“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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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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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
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November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“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...
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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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-...
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
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October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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!
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!
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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!
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-...
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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...
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...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge
Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK
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September 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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I wrote a rather long post on FB about taking part in poetry writing classes, or rather a lack of money and time to do so regularly, and I recommended two courses I've found so far that help with all these issues in their own ways. Featuring @marjorielotfi.bsky.social and @helenboden.bsky.social.
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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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...
September 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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...
Marjorie Lotfi, Iran and Other Stories
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September 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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...
Beautiful.
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
September 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Beautiful.
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
September 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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
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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.
You might well ask whether the current political climate is creating a permissive environment for this kind of racist abuse.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Racist couple ask British nurse if she 'came here on a rubber boat'
The couple demanded to know if the nurse, who has worked for the NHS for 12 years, 'came here on a rubber boat' and hurled water at her her during the assault at a park in Halifax on Thursday.
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August 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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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! ⬇️
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
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August 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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! ⬇️
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! ⬇️
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
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August 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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...
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
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August 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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! ⬇️ www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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…
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August 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Today! ⬇️ www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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!
August 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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
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
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
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August 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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
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
I’ll be talking about my film poem and the idea of film poems with Anthony and Jo (and Colin Grant) today at the Edinburgh Internatioal Book Festival - see you there? www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Poets on Film
From Mon 18 Aug - Witness the fusion of poetry and film, through a collaboration between WritersMosaic and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. This live event features readings and screenings, s...
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August 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I’ll be talking about my film poem and the idea of film poems with Anthony and Jo (and Colin Grant) today at the Edinburgh Internatioal Book Festival - see you there? www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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What a fabulous list. Congratulations to @marjorielotfi.bsky.social and all the other longlisted poets!
We are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp...
@carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
@carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What a fabulous list. Congratulations to @marjorielotfi.bsky.social and all the other longlisted poets!
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August news: shorturl.at/8SafG
#MattHoward wins @asleuki.bsky.social Prize; #KatrinaPorteous is #LaurelPrize Finalist; #KrisJohnson & @marjorielotfi.bsky.social on #MichaelMurphyPrize Longlist; @theguardian.com review for #VersusVersus; #GillianAllnutt made @rsliterature.bsky.social Fellow; & more!
#MattHoward wins @asleuki.bsky.social Prize; #KatrinaPorteous is #LaurelPrize Finalist; #KrisJohnson & @marjorielotfi.bsky.social on #MichaelMurphyPrize Longlist; @theguardian.com review for #VersusVersus; #GillianAllnutt made @rsliterature.bsky.social Fellow; & more!
August 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
August news: shorturl.at/8SafG
#MattHoward wins @asleuki.bsky.social Prize; #KatrinaPorteous is #LaurelPrize Finalist; #KrisJohnson & @marjorielotfi.bsky.social on #MichaelMurphyPrize Longlist; @theguardian.com review for #VersusVersus; #GillianAllnutt made @rsliterature.bsky.social Fellow; & more!
#MattHoward wins @asleuki.bsky.social Prize; #KatrinaPorteous is #LaurelPrize Finalist; #KrisJohnson & @marjorielotfi.bsky.social on #MichaelMurphyPrize Longlist; @theguardian.com review for #VersusVersus; #GillianAllnutt made @rsliterature.bsky.social Fellow; & more!
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Congratulations to #KrisJohnson and @marjorielotfi.bsky.social, whose debut collections are both longlisted for the 2025 #MichaelMurphyMemorialPoetryPrize!
The Prize is awarded biennially for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English.
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The Prize is awarded biennially for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
We are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp...
@carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
@carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Congratulations to #KrisJohnson and @marjorielotfi.bsky.social, whose debut collections are both longlisted for the 2025 #MichaelMurphyMemorialPoetryPrize!
The Prize is awarded biennially for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
The Prize is awarded biennially for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...