Shaping the Verse: Craft, Feedback, & Direction.
Online
Monday 11th January 2027 11:00AM
Shaping the Verse: Craft, Feedback, & Direction. A six-month course of workshops, mentoring, and more.
If you are an experienced poet who would like to work with a mentor and a popular workshop facilitator, you can now apply for Shaping The Verse with Anna Saunders, a five month writing program that includes workshops, mentoring, feedback on your poetry, and advice on creative direction.
The course will include
Four online workshops - ( one per month) - where you will explore a different aspect of craft and theory, analyze contemporary and classic poetry, and receive inspiring writing prompts to generate new work.
Post workshop, email feedback on one of your poems crafted in the session. ( One poem per workshop).
Two one-hour Zoom sessions – in which you will receive guidance on submitting work or feedback on your poems. You will also have the chance to work with Anna to explore new directions for your writing and to set goals. You will need to submit up to 7 poems before the zoom, if you wish Anna to look at them with you in the session.
Your first 1-1 session will take place a month before the first workshop begins, and the second will take place after the fourth workshop. The workshops will run from September.
This course is perfect for experienced writers, including those who have been widely published yet wish to further develop and enrich their work, and perhaps even find ways to break writer's block.
The course will be limited to 6 places.
Price £300 / £250 conc - for those on Universal Credit.
Course runs from January - May.
Workshops run from 7pm - 9pm, once a month, Dates to be agreed with poets accepted onto the course.
About the tutor –
Anna Saunders is the author of Communion, (Wild Conversations Press), Struck, (Pindrop Press) Kissing the She Bear, (Wild Conversations Press), Burne Jones and the Fox, Ghosting for Beginners, Feverfew, described by Penelope Shuttle as ‘a beautiful and necessary read’, The Prohibition of Touch and Eurydice in the Ruined House - all Indigo Dreams.
Anna is the CEO and founder of Cheltenham Poetry Festival. She has been described as ‘a poet who surely can do anything’ by The North, a ‘modern myth maker’ by Paul Stephenson, and ‘a poet of quite remarkable gifts’ by Bernard O’Donoghue.
If you are an experienced poet who would like to work with a mentor and a popular workshop facilitator, you can now apply for Shaping The Verse with Anna Saunders, a five month writing program that includes workshops, mentoring, feedback on your poetry, and advice on creative direction.
The course will include
Four online workshops - ( one per month) - where you will explore a different aspect of craft and theory, analyze contemporary and classic poetry, and receive inspiring writing prompts to generate new work.
Post workshop, email feedback on one of your poems crafted in the session. ( One poem per workshop).
Two one-hour Zoom sessions – in which you will receive guidance on submitting work or feedback on your poems. You will also have the chance to work with Anna to explore new directions for your writing and to set goals. You will need to submit up to 7 poems before the zoom, if you wish Anna to look at them with you in the session.
Your first 1-1 session will take place a month before the first workshop begins, and the second will take place after the fourth workshop. The workshops will run from September.
This course is perfect for experienced writers, including those who have been widely published yet wish to further develop and enrich their work, and perhaps even find ways to break writer's block.
The course will be limited to 6 places.
Price £300 / £250 conc - for those on Universal Credit.
Course runs from January - May.
Workshops run from 7pm - 9pm, once a month, Dates to be agreed with poets accepted onto the course.
About the tutor –
Anna Saunders is the author of Communion, (Wild Conversations Press), Struck, (Pindrop Press) Kissing the She Bear, (Wild Conversations Press), Burne Jones and the Fox, Ghosting for Beginners, Feverfew, described by Penelope Shuttle as ‘a beautiful and necessary read’, The Prohibition of Touch and Eurydice in the Ruined House - all Indigo Dreams.
Anna is the CEO and founder of Cheltenham Poetry Festival. She has been described as ‘a poet who surely can do anything’ by The North, a ‘modern myth maker’ by Paul Stephenson, and ‘a poet of quite remarkable gifts’ by Bernard O’Donoghue.
Event Details
From Mon 11 Jan 2027, 11:00AM to Mon 10 May 2027, 9:00PM
