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RUDE I had the good fortune earlier this week to be visited here in Rome by an ex-student who was brought up in Nigeria and has been working on a novel set there. I’ve only read the beginning of the book and have been unable to read more. (At the moment I can’t read much because

These clips are two of the best pieces of writing advice you will ever get about writing on the internet. I promise. It is so good we show it to our newsletter students. 1st: Most of us should write to help ourselves think.

Thankyou for todays orbital poetry workshop considering migration & themes of home Anthony Aston University Centre for Migration & Forced Displacement

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Reading got me out of freeze this morning. Funding for work is coming to an end this financial year and I have choices. I’ve included a journalling prompt for you taken from an abstract in Melody Beatties Journey to the Heart. Enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/hayleyfran…

Another one... DISCOMBOBULATE Synchronicity and writing a poem to articulate a feeling. Have a read. open.substack.com/pub/hayleyfran…

Unintentionally realising traumas confusion of the mind in a poem I wrote specifically to tie my debut collection to current society. It seems self-knowledge is inescapable when writing poetry, even when my intention is to anchor what I write to the now. open.substack.com/pub/hayleyfran…

Thank you Hayley Frances Voce Books for a wonderful evening exchanging poems and ideas around motherhood, sex, and reclamation. More joy seeking next week as part of Verve Poetry Festival's summer workshop series. Let's go! eventbrite.co.uk/e/helen-calcut…

Alison is absolutely wonderful x

Hayley Frances WritingWestMidlands Birmingham What's On Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) Birmingham We Are Birmingham Lit Fest Apples and Snakes Poetry School Ledbury Poetry Voce Books Manchester Writing School But don't take our word for it. Look at what joelle taylor & @ceciliaknapp think of it. Also available from the lovely new all-poetry online bookshop over at vervepoetrybookshop.com 😍

Out tonight to Sathnam Sanghera's talk which is part of the Birmingham Literature Festival. Mishal Husain tomorrow, Hayley Frances on Sunday

💌I asked poet Hayley Frances to introduce her debut collection with one adjective. She gave me three: “Sorry, but it is my job to break the rules to find my voice”💌Read our interview ahead of her debut poetry collection launch on Sun 6 Oct: bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/…

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