Price: £7.50 / £5
Time: 10:00 - 11:45

Curating your first collection is an exciting task that’s worth taking time over. A collection can create a structure for play and experimentation and presents a great opportunity to expand your practice. In this workshop, we’ll look at voice, narrative, form and structure, as well as at practical steps to building and selling your manuscript, from a poetry editor’s point of view.

AMY ACRE:

Amy Acre is a poet and freelance writer, and the editor of award-winning indie publisher, Bad Betty Press. Her pamphlets And They Are Covered in Gold Light (Bad Betty, 2019) and Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads (flipped eye, 2015) were each chosen as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poem ‘every girl knows’ won the 2019 Verve Poetry Competition. She featured on The Last Dinosaur’s 2020 track, ‘In The Belly of a Whale’, streamed over 750,000 times on Spotify. In 2021, she wrote and recorded Radio 4’s The Ballad of the Bet—a BBC Pick of the Week. Her debut collection, Mothersong, will be published by Bloomsbury in September 2023. Amy was born and raised in London, and lives in Nottingham. (Photo credit: Naomi Woddis)

Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.

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