Hive Poetry Collective
Hive Poetry Collective is a relaxed and supportive online poetry workshop for young and emerging poets aged 18 to 30 (or thereabouts!) from across South Yorkshire, the north and beyond. Being based online, we’re particularly keen to hear from those who feel that they don’t have this kind of opportunity nearby. We currently run online sessions only which makes it easier for those far and wide to join us.
Write poems, read poems, get ideas, build skills, learn from feedback, hear about wider opportunities and be inspired by others who buzz off the same love of and curiosity for language. Be it hobby, interest or you’re sending your work out into the world or building a poetry manuscript, join us to stay in your creative groove.
Sessions are exercise/writing-based (with occasional workshopping poems sessions) so great for young and emerging writers wanting to discover their voice, generate new work, sharpen their editing muscles, experience more contemporary poetry, or build a portfolio or manuscript.
The group is run by widely published poet, editor & creative educator, Vicky Morris, and is open to all levels and interests. Vicky has many years of experience mentoring young writers who’ve won accolades such as the New Poets Prize, Foyle Young Poet of Year & the Young Northern Writers Award. A good few competition & award-winning poems have been written in this group too, including this gem from New Poets Prize winner 2020 Lauren Hollingsworth Smith. Our group alumni include Sheffield Poet Laureates Warda Yassin and Danae Wellington. Since 2018, eight Hive poets have been placed in the International New Poets Prize.
Where: Zoom
When: roughly every 3 weeks on a Sunday, 11-1pm (next block starts 18th Jan 2026]
Who: new & emerging young poets aged 18 to 30 (or thereabouts)
What: Writing workshops, edit/workshopping sessions, feedback & signposting opportunities
Cost: 4 session blocks £50 [£40-£30 concessions/low income] We tend to take a break in July/August
Interested? Email [email protected]
“I really look forward to these sessions and the supportive atmosphere and wondefully creative minds who come.” Warda Yassin – New Poets Prize Winner 2018 / Sheffield Poet Laureate 20-22
Vicky Morris is a British/Welsh poet based in Sheffield. Her debut chapbook If All This Never Happened was a winner of the Munster Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition 2021 and was shortlisted in the Saboteur Awards for Best Poetry Pamphlet 21/22. Her poetry has appeared in places like The Rialto, The Poetry Review, Magma, Poetry Wales and The North. She has been placed in various competitions including winning the Aurora Prize for Poetry 2020, and the Prole Laureate Competition in 2019. Vicky is the founder of Hive Young Writers, and in 2019 received a Sarah Nulty Award for her impact developing younger writers across the region. She was a Arvon/Jerwood 2019 mentee, and was shortlisted for the Mairtín Crawford Award 2022.