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 […]

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Pep Talks

Time To Prepare

It is almost time for National Poetry Writing Month, so sharpen your pencils, stretch your fingers and expand your minds! Writing challenges can be incredibly useful, weather you are just […]

Reviews and Events

Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2014

For those local to Gloucestershire in the UK, The Jordans Cheltenham Poetry Festival is once again gearing up. It runs from March 28th to April 6th, there are also a […]

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And it’s All Over!

That is it peeps! Well done to all those who have taken part. Thank you to the guest bloggers for your inspiring words and to those who gave books for […]

Exercises

Boh, Tidal Wave and More

Ripples and waves make up everything around us, the patterns repeated on different scales, again and again through nature but within these ways lurks the super waves, seemingly out of […]

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Built

The word built carved into stone and part of a building, think about the concept behind this, it is similar to writing – write and marks a loop in human […]

Guest Bloggers

William Humphreys – Guest Blogger

Will shares some of his thoughts, on writing his collection, in a fluid lyrical way. “I can’t tell you what’s in my head. If I did you’d never feel safe […]

Exercises

Change

Imaging that you could change into anything that you wanted, from a squirrel to a snail, to a bear, to the Earth, star, universe, or maybe into love or life […]

Exercises

Inspired? Pin it!

The image library social media site Pinterest can be a gold mine for poets. Start a board collect images that inspire you, then spend five minutes with each picture examining […]

Exercises

A Path Less Traveled

Do 10 minutes of writing from this photo, maybe ask yourself where the child is going? Are they lost? Where doe the path go? Is there happiness in sunshine and […]

Pep Talks

Almost There

It is the home leg of the WoPo poem a day challenge, some of you are almost there, some have barely begun and others have stormed through and finished and […]