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Leave a Comment · Posted on August 21, 2024
A Hive Writers’ Day with Rory Waterman
Sunday 20th October 2024 10.30am to 4/4.30pm (with refreshments & lunch break)
Open to young writers (all levels & interests, aged 15 to 30) from across South Yorkshire & the nearby north
The poet Roy Marshall has said that the best poetry is often ‘working consistently towards telling a particular emotional truth’. The thing about good short poems is that you can carry them around in your head – in a more complete way than is possible with a song, a painting, or (at least in most cases) a story. What an amazing opportunity poets have to create brain-portable art that scratches that ever-human itch for truth!
Join prize-winning poet Rory Waterman, author of four collections with Carcanet, to explore both how to write short poems that get stuck in people’s heads, and to consider how we can approach or create the emotional ‘truth’ of a poem. Along the way, you’ll develop your skills in writing powerful images, meaningful line-breaks, and other useful skills to help your poems snap into focus.
Expect a relaxed and supportive day of discussing and responding to an exciting range of poems and writing exercises, and come away with fresh ideas, new drafts and inspiring approaches to writing poems of brevity and truth. Rory will also read from his own work and give tips and tricks on what’s helped him develop as a poet.
Cost: £10 | Please enquire re concessions £5 | Booking: [email protected]
Where: Cantor Building, Arundel Street, Sheffield (4 minutes from the train station) Stree view here.
Supported by English & Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University
(Following this writers’ day we have this evening/6.30pm event with Rory Waterman)
Rory Waterman’s collections, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013; PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award); Sarajevo Roses (2017; shortlisted for Ledbury Forte Prize); Sweet Nothings (2020); and, most recently, Come Here to This Gate (2024), described in the Guardian as ‘a wise and deeply satisfying book’. He is on the English and Creative Writing faculty at NTU, writes regularly for the TLS and other publications, and co-edits New Walk Editions. Author website: www.rorywaterman.com
Leave a Comment · Posted on August 13, 2024
Rory Waterman & Hive New Poets Prize Winners Reading
Sunday 20th Oct 6.30pm to 8/8.30pm | Venue update: Performance Lab, SHU Arundel Gate, Sheffield | 4 mins from Train/Bus Station | Tickets: £6/£3
Over the last 8 years, Hive Young Writers Network has nurtured many fine emerging South Yorkshire poets including an incredible 8 winners of the International New Poets Prize for writers aged 17 to 24. Join poets from this list, including 2024 highly commended Sheffield Young Writer Charlie Jolley, and 2022 winner Beth Davies, for a glorious reading of new and prize-winning work. Carcanet poet and critic Rory Waterman will introduce the evening and read from his latest work.
Tickets here: Eventbrite | This event followed a writers’ day workshop masterclass with Rory Waterman, details here
In partnership with Off the Shelf
Rory Waterman’s collections, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013; PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award); Sarajevo Roses (2017; shortlisted for Ledbury Forte Prize); Sweet Nothings (2020); and, most recently, Come Here to This Gate (2024), described in the Guardian as ‘a wise and deeply satisfying book’. He is on the English and Creative Writing faculty at NTU, writes regularly for the TLS and other publications, and co-edits New Walk Editions. Author website: www.rorywaterman.com
Leave a Comment · Posted on August 13, 2024
In celebration of the newly refurbished Camellia House tearoom situated in the gardens of Wentworth Woodhouse’s captivating Grade II* listed mansion, join emerging young writers from the Hive network for the launch of an anthology of poetry and writing inspired by Wentworth’s families, gardens and histories. Among many other fascinating insights, learn about the significance of pineapples and tea for South Yorkshire’s most renowned aristocratic dynasty. Hosted by contributing Hive writer Beth Davies (announcement to follow!)
Funded by The Heritage Lottery, Hive South Yorkshire & Off the Shelf Festvial of Words
More information coming soon
Contributors
Anzal Adhan
Lydia Allison
Helen Angel
Freya Bantiff
Jade Beachell
Milly Boden
Milly Boden
Dillon butt
Emily Charlton
Beth Davies
Becca Drake
Merila Gramy
Katherine Henderson
Fae Horsley
Charlie Jolley
Jess Lenz
Vicky Morris
Helen Mort
Charlotte Murray
Lucy Nadin
Sam Parry
Rebecca Payne
Nik Perring
Louisa Rhodes
Erik Ruder
Alastair Smith
Lauren Hollingsworth Smith
Rebecca Smith
Holly Thorpe
Ellen Uttley
Jenalla Waddington
Luke Worthy
Warda Yassin
Leave a Comment · Posted on August 13, 2024
Young Writers’ Open Mic (aged 14-30)
The Performance Lab, Arundel Gate, S1 2LQ
Fri 1st Nov | 7.30–10pm
Register via Eventbrite as venue has limited seating (link coming soon) Tickets: £2 minimum donation on the door
If you write poems, tell stories, compose lyrics, spit bars, or have anything to say out loud to a supportive audience, this is an evening to celebrate your words in a warm, inclusive atmosphere. All welcome, but the stage belongs to young people (14-30) from across South Yorkshire & beyond. Open and supportive of all, both new & experienced performers.
For more information, and to reserve a slot: [email protected]
Hive in partnership with Off the Shelf & Sheffield Hallam University
Leave a Comment · Posted on July 21, 2024
A huge congratulations to Sheffield Young Writer and Hive Poetry Collective member, Charlie Jolley who is one of two runners up in the New Poets Prize 2024 for her pamphlet The Dreamers.
As a runner up in the New Poets Prize 2024 Charlie received an Arvon residential course of her choice. All four placed – congratulations also to Jayant Kashyap, Cia Mangat, Zelda Cahill-Patten – will receive editorial and mentoring support from The Poetry Business, as well as publication in The North and a launch reading. Judge Holly Hopkins had this to say about Charlie’s work:
“Charlie Jolley’s ‘The Dreamers’ demonstrates a talent for dramatic monologues which directs the reader to consider different moments in history and how they relate politically and emotionally.”
Charlie Jolley is a young poet and fiction writer. She is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award (2023). In 2023 she was also the winner of the Waltham Forest Young Poets Prize, the Hexham Young People’s Poetry Competition, and the Poem:99 Poetry Competition, as well as placing second in the East Riding Festival of Words, and the Charles Causley Young Poets Prize. She has been published by The Poetry Society, Zoetic Press, and in Hive anthologies Dear Life and After Hours. She is an alumnus of Sheffield Young Writers and a member of Hive Poetry Collective.
The New Poets Prize is a pamphlet competition for writers between the ages of 17 and 24 (inclusive). The prize was launched in 2015 and runs annually alongside the renowned Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition, which has now been established for 38 years. Previous judges of the New Poets Prize include Helen Mort, Andrew McMillan, Kayo Chingonyi, Mary Jean Chan, Luke Kennard and Kim Moore. Winners of the New Poets Prize have gone on to publish full-length collections with notable publishers, including Carcanet and Bloodaxe Books, have been appointed as workshop facilitators, editors-in-residence, and competition judges (such as the Forward Prizes), have launched and performed their pamphlets on national radio and at prestigious venues, and have been widely reviewed.