🚨Attention Young Writers! This autumn, we're inviting you to join the Oxford Writers Wheel Mentorship Program! 🎉 This free program is a fantastic opportunity to boost your confidence in creative expression with guidance from top Oxford writers. 1/

We’re mailing copies of our 40th Anniversary Issue, Wasafiri 119: Futurisms, to all our subscribers and preorder customers today. To be among the first to receive the print edition of this milestone issue, place your order before 12.30pm 🎁 wasafiri.org/issues/wasafir…

I’m so glad to have a poem ‘small school’ included in this amazing Candlestick Press book of poems with other contributors, edited by Jeanette Burton Jonathan Edwards. Please support & get/gift a copy!

And it's the weekend...😃 Time to unwind, & send your best poems off to #coffeehousepoetry's £3,500-in-prizes #TroubadourPrize email by: mon 23 sep, results mon 9 dec judges: Jane Yeh & Glyn Maxwell see: tinyurl.com/2024-troubadou… RT's appreciated!😃 image: olala.art

Have you booked? Our fortnightly WEBINAR series is led by 5 Nine Arches poets exploring #poetry topics from sci-fi, images, urban spaces, tech, and truth. Starting 18th Sep: Suzannah Evans @saralaestruch Jennifer Wong Harry Man & Gregory Leadbetter buff.ly/3SFUK5H

Jewish filmmaker Sarah Friedland accepts award at the Venice Film festival. “I am accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation…I stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for liberation.”

Excited to be reading at Creation Theatre next Monday with these lovely folks 🙏🍀 come along if you are near :)

My daughter wants me to make mooncakes 🥮 this year. Not sure if I actually have time to do that this year but so glad she remembers and embraces this.

Pre-order now Seren - Portrait in Mustard deliberately puts female desire on a central plinth. There is no anonymity - the speaker of these poems is writing about sex openly and passionately, respecting that for so long, women were not able to do this.

Autumn. Yesterday. Eggs on sourdough, light filtered through this airy cafe.

‘Writing the felt self’ 🌱is Tues Sept 17 @ 7pm & we’re going to be looking at new poems from Victoria Chang amazing ‘With my back to the world’, Carl Phillips Amelia Loulli & Valzhyna Mort amongst others to open doors widest to our creative makings from our whole & loved felt selves🌱

Looking forward to reading at Creation Theatre in oxford this evening!

I read a sneak preview from my forthcoming pamphlet, Headlands. Speaking of which...it's launching next week alongside fellow winners Deborah Finding henry st leger & Tamsin Hopkins!! 🥹 Do join us The Bedford, Balham on 25th Sept. It's free, but register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Which Cantopop or mandopop songs have a moon in them? Just so I can re-listen to mark the moon festival 🙏 🎑🌝🌙 I can think of Eason Chan (a song with grasshopper and soup in it) for one

Mini mooncakes today & lanterns over the weekend. Wishing everyone health, peace, love in the season of golden leaves 🍂

Been wonderful reading last night with everyone✨👍 so deeply moved by poetry at Creation Theatre curated by Dr Helen Eastman can’t wait for the next one in October!

A poem shared on The Poetry Archive wordview series 🌎youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4BhD…

Poetry reaches the fashionistas of the world! As a child, I used to ride our laundry basin, while singing ‘Near, Far…’😂 Now, my work is in the same magazine as Kate Winslet! Thank you for featuring my poem ‘Magatama’ from my second collection, AGIMAT! 🧿

🌟 The Researching Body In-Person Workshop 🌟 Join us for an immersive workshop led by Hana Shokr, where we'll explore how we sense, perceive, and imagine through the body. 📅 Sat 21 Sept, 12-4pm 📍 Fusion Arts, 95 Gloucester Green, Oxford 🎟️ forms.gle/728jqHNxgNRa4A…

Looking forward to this wonderful event & conversation with these amazing writers! See you at Burley Fisher Books 9 October burleyfisherbooks.com/products/red-b…