Whether you’ve never written a poem before, have just started to write, or aren’t sure if what you’re writing is poetry, this monthly workshop is a chance to carve out some time for writing. In each workshop, we’ll read a poem together, and use it as our starting point. We’ll suggest some prompts you could … Continue reading Getting Started With Poetry
Hey! The rumours are true. It’s… The Hip Crowd Open Mic! Oxford Poetry Library and Makespace Oxford bring you an open mic event especially for folks with babes-in-arms, but also open to all and everyone. If you’re feeling like daytime is the right time for you to entertain or be entertained, join us at The … Continue reading The Hip Crowd open mic
What is it? Write Space is a pop-up space for you to work on your creative writing projects in the company of other local writers. Come and write with us … Continue reading Write Space
Welcome to Drafting Table, where we share our emerging poems with each other and provide feedback in a safe and inclusive environment. Maybe you have been attending the Getting Started sessions and feel ready to edit your work and develop your ideas. Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next … Continue reading Drafting Table – Featured Poet Session
Got started with poetry but not sure where to go next? Need some support and feedback for a specific piece of writing that is bugging you right now? Just looking for a friendly, low-pressure space to hang out and chat with folks who love words as much as you do? Why not join us at … Continue reading LIT Reading Group -April Session
Welcome to our poetry drafting group, where we share our emerging poems with each other and provide feedback in a safe and inclusive environment. Maybe you have been attending the Getting Started sessions and feel ready to edit your work and develop your ideas. Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those … Continue reading Drafting Table Workshop Session
Oxford Poetry Library presents a spoken word open mic night! Join us in the library on the first Tuesday of every month to enjoy all manner of word-weaving, story-sharing, and spell-casting. We welcome poets, storytellers, and writers of all kinds to share their work (or the work of others) in a safe, supportive, and inclusive … Continue reading This Is Just to Say: spoken word open mic
What is it? Write Space is a pop-up space for you to work on your creative writing projects in the company of other local writers. Come and write with us … Continue reading Write Space
Note that these sessions will take place online – links to the Zoom sessions will be circulated to those who have registered in advance of these events. Many of us … Continue reading The Shape of Poetry
Whether you’ve never written a poem before, have just started to write, or aren’t sure if what you’re writing is poetry, this monthly workshop is a chance to carve out … Continue reading Getting Started With Poetry
On 15 May at 7.30pm in The Community Works, join us for Voices of Resistance: an evening of powerful, thought-provoking poetry that speaks to histories of migration, conflict, class, exile, and survival. Voices of Resistance brings together four poets, Adnan Al-Sayegh, Jenny Lewis, Anna Robinson, and Jude Rosen, whose work confronts the politics of place, … Continue reading Voices of Resistance
People who never read poetry don’t write poems that are worth reading – Wendy Cope If you’re keen to find a way in to reading and appreciating poetry, discover new writing, and open your mind to the world of poetry, welcome to The Reading Circle. Come to OPL’s poetry reading group where we’ll share and … Continue reading The Reading Circle
