Rory Waterman & Hive New Poets Prize Winners Reading
Rory Waterman & Hive New Poets Prize Winners Reading
Sunday 20th Oct 6.30pm to 8/8.30pm | venue, Shefield TBC | 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.
To book, eventbrite coming soon. 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