We are delighted to offer two writing prompt workshops – if you want to answer the open call but want a bit of help getting words on a page, this is for you!
These two prompt workshops, run by Nikita Chadha and Rhiya Pau, provide a space for you to think about the prompt, and to connect with other poets.
These workshops are free and open to all, but spaces are very limited, so book now (and please only sign up to one session – they are not a series).
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Prompt Workshop with Rhiya Pau
In Solidarity: Motif, Metaphor & Movement
Sunday 21st April, 6 p.m.
What does poetic form have to offer in spaces of activism? How do we map the microcosms of our day to day [e]motions to the broader state of the world? In this beginner’s writing workshop, Rhiya will guide you beyond rhetoric, using mapping and movement to explore contemporary social issues through the South Asian lens.
About Rhiya
Rhiya Pau’s debut collection, Routes (Arachne Press, 2022), commemorates fifty years since her family arrived in the UK, chronicling the migratory history of her ancestors and navigating the conflicts of identity that arise within the East African-Indian diaspora. Routes was awarded an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2022. Rhiya won the Creative Future Writers’ Award in 2021 and her poem ‘Salutation’ was highly commended in the 2023 Forward Prize. She has had work published in Wasafiri, The Liminal Transit Review, Token Magazine and the Off the Chest Anthology, among other places. Rhiya is also one half of ORIGINS Poetry Duo, who write and perform collective poetry that does away with “ownership” and “linearity” to decentralise and decolonise the traditional project of history.
