Behind the Scenes: Writing for the Screen
Behind the Scenes: Writing for the Screen: How do we get the scene in our head onto the page? How do we create characters that we can believe in? And how do we keep the audience glued to the screen until the final frame?
Watch Ear to the Street
Ear to the Streets: 24hrs in the life of South Yorkshire – is an audio-visual love letter to the urban and rural life of South Yorkshire, featuring the words and voices of over 40 young writers from across the region’s cities, towns and villages, working with…
Canal Works a crowd-sourced poem by Warda Yassin
In 2021, as part of her role as Sheffield Poet Laureate [202-22], Hive poet and founder of Hive’s Mixing Roots, Warda Yassin, ran the Canal Works project – a Waterlines collaboration between The Poetry Society and the Canal & River Trust – aimed at celebrating…
Hive Young Writers Groups
If you’re a secret scribbler, vocal wordsmith, closet novelist or part-time poet, Hive runs a network of young writers groups in Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham. Come build your skills and confidence, be creative and meet others with like-minded interests…
Hive Young Writers Competition 2024/25
Hive Young Writers’ Competition 2024/25 NOW OPEN!! A writing competition for 14 to 30s from or based in Yorkshire, the nearby north & midlands | Poetry | Flash Fiction | Stories | deadline: midnight 23rd Feb 2025
Young Writers Open Mic at Off the Shelf Festival of Words
Young Writers’ Open Mic (aged 14-30) | Fri 1st Nov | 7.30–10pm | Tickets: Register free via Eventbrite (link coming soon) 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….
Call for submissions – Mixing Roots Anthology
We are open for submissions of poetry and poetic flash fiction until 10th July 2024 – from new, aspiring and emerging young women writers of colour (aged 15 to 30), for our first full-length Mixing Roots anthology…
Our Young Writers Groups (14-19s)
If you’re a secret scribbler, vocal wordsmith, closet novelist or part-time poet, Hive runs a network of young writers groups in Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham. We’re looking for new members to start autumn 2022…
Hive Competition Results 2022/23
We are delighted to announce the results of our 2021/22 Young Writers’ Competition! Congratulations to winning and commended young writers aged 14 to 30 from across Yorkshire and the nearby north who submitted wonderful work spanning short story, flash fiction and poetry. If you entered the competition and weren’t placed in the list below, don’t be disheartened. Keep writing! We’re….
Barnsley Young Writers at The Civic
Calling young people aged 14-19 in the Barnsley area… Like creative writing? Like photography too? (Not essential!) Want to join something fun and creative with others who share the same interests? If so, join us at the new Barnsley Young Writers! (FREE!) We’re looking for aspiring young writers to join our new monthly group….
Poetry free reads & mentoring support
Hive is offering a number of free reads, feedback & mentorship support to young poets [aged 17 to 30 years] who are at a stage where they are getting ready to send their work out into the world for a pamphlet submission…
Hive Poetry Collective
Hive Poetry Collective is a poetry workshop for young people 17 to 30 yrs from across South Yorkshire & nearby…Write poems, read poems, get ideas, build skills, learn from feedback, hear about opportunities and be inspired by others with an interest in poetry. Be it hobby interest, serious career or portfolio focus, join us to stay in your creative groove!