2022 New Poets Prize: Karl Knights’ Advice for First Time Entrants
With less than two months until the 2022 New Poets Prize deadline, you may be starting to get serious with ...
Ritual as Practice // Ritual as Inheritance – in conversation with Malika Booker
Prerana Kumar speaks to poet and writer Malika Booker about the complicated inheritance of rituals, writing about collective historical trauma and personal identity through rituals, and her forthcoming PhD project....
Project Spotlight– Writing The Archive
A conversation with Fahad Al-Amoudi, Lydia Hounat and Prerana Kumar...
Ritual as Drape // Ritual as Desire
Prerana Kumar writes about how the ritual of draping sarees functions as an ambiguous intergenerational inheritance- symbolizing beauty, queer desire, and femininity but also veiling the gendered violence brown women are subjected to....
‘I hear you hearing everything’: An autistic reading list
Why this post? Trawling through the Internet in search of autistic writers, I found it really hard to come across ...
What is the relationship between being neurodivergent and your creative practice? Mini interviews with autistic and neurodivergent writers and artists: Jon Adams, Debs Cooper, Kate Fox, Victoria Gray, Penny Kiley and Charles Wheeler
Welcome to the second post in this mini-series about neurodivergent writers and creativity. Seehere for the first post, ‘Kinship and ...
Kinship and community: In conversation with Karl Knights, winner of the 2021 New Poets Prize
Winner of the 2021 New Poets Prize, Karl Knights is a fellow of Zoeglossia, the first writing fellowship for disabled ...
Slow Poetry: In Conversation with Jonathan Davidson about ‘A Commonplace’
Poems – my own and other people’s – are scattered across my life. They are in books and notebooks, folded ...
Cavendish, Hughes, Swift, Whiteley and Grandma: People who inspire
For Black History Month, at my workplace, we were encouraged to write 150 words about an inspiring Black person. I ...
October Digital Poet-In-Residence: Ruth Yates
Ruth Yates is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for October......
Using Mindfulness to Move from Languishing to Flourishing
As part of her August Digital Residency, Jessica Wood ran an Instagram Live session with mindfulness and mental wellness facilitator Mica Montana....
The End of Desire
I have been thinking about the death of things recently. Over the last few months living in Lisbon......