Leave a Comment · Posted on February 19, 2024
To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2024, Sheffield’s Juno Books invites you to celebrate the launch of Kaleidoscopic Minds, an anthology of poetry written by neurodivergent women, with an evening of spoken word poetry. The event is hosted by Kate Jenkinson and Ashley Edge, from the Prickly Pear online open mic for disabled poets, and features Hive young poets.
Event: 21st March, Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row Sheffield City Centre S1 2BX | 6.30 to 8.30pm
Eventbrite tickets can be purchased here.
Leave a Comment · Posted on February 6, 2024
Prophetic Poetry: From sci-fi to sci-fact
A Hive Young Writers Poetry Day with Suzannah Evans
Sunday 24th MARCH 2024 10.30am to 4/4.30pm (with refreshments & lunch break)
Open to young writers (aged 15 to 30) from across South Yorkshire & the nearby north
Join award-winning poet, Suzannah Evans, for this relaxed and playful poetry-writing day, open to young writers at all levels, full of weird and wonderful prompts designed to get you thinking (and writing) out of our current reality and into the possibilities of science fiction and science fact.
Suzannah knows a thing or two about writing the prophetic – her work has been described as ‘doom-pop-poetry with an apocalyptic edge’. She’ll also read from her own work and give tips and tricks on what’s helped her develop as a poet. Expect a fun and insightful writing day, and emerge into a fresh reality with exciting new drafts and your imagination bouncing through the stratosphere!
Cost: £8 | Concessions £4 | Booking: [email protected]
Where: Cantor Building, Arundel Street, Sheffield (4 minutes from the train station) Stree view here.
Supported by Sheffield Hallam University
Suzannah Evans is an award-winning poet and writer based in Sheffield. She has published two collections of poetry, Near Future and Space Baby, with Nine Arches Press. Her first chapbook was a winner in the Poetry Business Competition 2012, and she has a second, ‘Green’, forthcoming with Bad Betty Press in June 2024. Suzannah was a Gladstone Library writer in residence in 2019, and in 2021 she received a Northern Writers’ Award for poetry. Her work asks difficult questions about the Earth, its beings, and what lies ahead for them; how do we look to the future on a planet that’s burning? How do we come to terms with our grief, and what can we believe in?
Leave a Comment · Posted on January 24, 2024
Winning and commended poets are published on Young Poets Network and sent an exclusive Young Poets Network notebook, as well as poetry goodies including books and posters.
Young Poets Network is The Poetry Society’s online platform for young poets up to the age of 25. Here you’ll find features about poets and poetry, challenges and competitions to inspire your own writing, new writing from young poets, and advice and guidance from the rising and established stars of the poetry scene. We also bring you the latest news and ideas from the writing world, and a list of competitions, magazines and writing groups that particularly welcome young writers.
Young Poets Network is for everyone interested in poets and poetry – whether you’ve just started out, or you’re a seasoned reader or writer. Teachers and parents might find it a useful resource, too.
More info here
Leave a Comment · Posted on November 16, 2023
On Monday 16th October, five Hive poets attended the inaugural Young Poets Summit at the Forward Prize for Poetry 2023 in Leeds. They were joined by other young poets from: Young Identity, Leeds young Authors, Barbican Young Poets & The Writing Squad, for an afternoon of poetry-related discussion, networking, and wonderful insights from a stellar panel of writers, including, Khadijah Ibrahim, a judge for this year’s award, Kandace Siobhan Walker (shortlisted for Best First Collection with Cowboy (Cherrio Publishing), and Momtaza Mehri (Winner of Best First Collect for Bad Diaspora Poems (Jonathan Cape). And the icing on the cake: to enjoy the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2023 live that evening at Leeds Playhouse.
The event was organised by writers Tolu Agbelusi, Jemilea Wisdom-Baako, Annie Hayter, Pelumi Fatayo, Kiki Gilbert and Princess Arinola Adegbite with support from Shirley May, Jacob Sam La Rose and Jay Bhadricha (Forward Prize), who were instrumental in the initial conceptualisation of the event.
It’s hoped that feedback collected from the event can go towards looking at a yearly Young Poets Summit during the Forward Prizes.
Many thanks to Tolu Agbelusi, Shirley May & Jemilea Wisdom-Baako for inviting Hive poets, and thanks to the Forward Prize and all the fine young poet groups involved.
Leave a Comment · Posted on September 16, 2023
After Hours Anthology launch (SOLD OUT /NO DOOR TICKETS SORRY)
When: Friday 17th Nov | doors 7.15pm – 10pm 2023
Where: Performance Lab (SHU) Arundel Gate,
Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2LQ (5 mins from station/s)
Join us for the launch our 2023 young writers’ anthology featuring fiction and poetry from young and emerging writers from across the north. All welcome, but the stage belongs to young people (14-30) from across South Yorkshire & beyond.
The open mic section of the night is closed, but we hope to have an open mic in the early new year!
Refreshments & bookstall – books will be sold at a discount price on the night | there will hopefully be a card machine but please bring cash to be on the safe side.
(Details of how to purchase copies of the anthology outside the launch will be on our website from 15th November)
In partnership with the Department of Media & Culture at Sheffield Hallam University & Off the Shelf Festival of Words
Our coming 2023 anthology after hours contains the voices of 78 young poets & short fiction writers, in 87 amazing pieces. Praise for after hours…
“From museum tardigrades to keyring turtles, glow ups to circus tricks – this is mic-droppingly brilliant writing from the next generation of writers in the north.” Vanessa Lampert
Innovative, visceral and vital. The poems in After Hours, quite simply, sing from the pages. I’m so impressed by the ambition and diversity of voices, forms and subjects, ranging from lyrical and haunting to witty and entertaining. There is experimentation rolex day date 41mm m228396tbr 0020 uomini tono argento with form, wonderful bold images, beautiful journeys into the human condition and soaring endings. I loved reading them all. And I know I’ll be reading more from these poets in the very near future. Rachel Bower“From compelling cosmic sci-fi and anthropomorphic fable, to gripping realist drama and terrifying existential horror, these stories span much of what is possible in short fiction. I was thrilled to see these young writers so willing to take risks and challenge their writing to produce these striking short works. I lost count of how many ideas had me wishing I’d thought of them. This is some standout fiction that is still resonating in my brain a long time after reading it.” Dan Powell
Leave a Comment · Posted on October 19, 2023
This is an open mic night where English is not the default and all languages are welcome. Poems you have written yourself, poems mixing your mother tongue with the latest online slang, verses from your grandmother’s hometown, your favourites from Instagram or the wisdom of your forefathers in rhyming couplets, even your own English language compositions. We invite you to jump on stage and read to a supportive audience.
If you don’t fancy getting up, that’s fine too, poets are needed but wallflowers are welcome! The event will be hosted by Warda Yassin, a British-Somali poet born and raised in Sheffield and supported on stage by some local up-and-coming Somali poets.
This event will take place at Somali Week Express in Sheffield, hosted by Kayd Somali Arts and Culture, in partnership with Off the Shelf Festival. This will be a weekend of events with Somali artists, writers and comedians at Israac Community Centre on 4-5 November 2023.
The Poetry Translation Centre is also hosting a poetry translation workshop on Sunday 5 November at the festival, exploring the craft of translation in a friendly collaborative workshop open to all.
Event date: Poetry Translation Centre Website
Supported by Arts Council England