Special Interest Groups and Mailing Lists
Response writing is an wonderful way to get yourself writing, and can have an immediacy about it that other types of writing do not. However the most common way to […]
Some Wasted Potential
The artist Some Wasted Poetential produces etheral electronic music and backroom style videos that are poignant and intriguing. They have also told us here at WoPo that they would be […]
World Poetry Writing and What Not
WoPo originally started as a month long writing drive or prompt a day, initially as a group of friends meeting in coffee shops in Cheltenham here in the UK and […]
Time To Write
With February and our daily prompts about to arrive the question of where and how to write raises its head. For many this is a huge problem with things like […]
Poetry, Folk Lore and National Story Telling Week
Here in the UK we have National Story Telling Week coming up from the 31st of Jan to 8th of Feb 2026, as run by the Society for Storytellers. There […]
The Art of Collaboration
Writing can be lonely, and that isn’t always a bad thing; in fact the peace and quiet can give you the space to think and to form ideas that would […]
Happy New Year 2026
It is that time of year again when we all start to think about what is on the writery horizon! Here at team WoPo we have been thinking about pacing […]
Prompt Sites 2025
Prompts are a valuable way to get you writing – they may not produce the poems or stories that you are looking for but they are a good way of […]
Word Poems and Pubs
If you can’t do pubs or just don’t want to you can substitute a cafe or some other outing for this exercise. Go to a pub and get settled in, […]
Loosing Your Heads!
If you have Post Traumatic Stress or similar it is recommended that you write from the image and we suggest you ignore the exercise below. Have you ever had that […]