I am filled with the self-congratulatory wish that I could live in all the cities I love all at once, so that I could make them mine.
Tag: poetry
Its Song is Returned – a poetic response to our 2021 Mixtape: Writers of Colour Anthology
Despite what we’re often made to feel, we also have a right to articulate our own place within this world around us.
Scottish Black Writers Group LIVE – 19 May 2022
Scottish Black Writers Group is a writers group facilitated by Titilayo Farukuoye. It is open to writers across the UK and Ireland who are Black/from the African diaspora, including people of mixed heritage.
SBWN 2021 Conference – Closing Reading
Watch Andrés N. Ordorica’s wonderful closing reading from our 2021 conference here!
Rendering Violence In Verse: The Realm Between Anthropology And Poetry
Violence seems now as a spiked coil, piercing through the fabric of a given space and time at different points.
SBWN Networking Conference: Staying Connected – 27 November 2021
Our annual networking conference is back – and open for registration!
Intermediate Craft Seminar: Poetry Vs Colonialism with Laila Sumpton – 1st December 2021
Explore and challenge stories of the British Empire through creating poetry.
SBWN at Push the Boat Out – 16th October 2021
An hour of Healing and Recovery through film, poetry and prose.
Balancing Our Mental Health and Our Writing with Zebib K. Abraham – 10th July 2021
This workshop will explore the intersection of our mental health and our writing practices.
Poetry as Love Letters to Place: Connection and Belonging – 12th June 2021
This workshop focuses on how writers can use poetry to explore the memory and love of place.
