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 […]

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Exercises

Dream Diaries

Dream diaries are a good way to generate ideas, phrases and moods. When you awake in the morning jot down your dreams, even if you can’t remember them specifically you […]

About WoPo

Poetry Writing Time 2018!

It’s that time of year again when poetry madness takes over the brain! That’s right it’s WoPo Time and that means it’s Write Time! But where to begin? January is […]

Exercises

The Poetic Form

There are many many different poetic forms, some are long and some are short with more rhyme and rhythm schemes than you can shake a stick at! An interesting exercise […]

Resources

Escape Into Life Visuals

Escape Into Life a group that features emerging art and literature has a group on flickr has some amazing visuals which are an ecclectic mix guarenteed to get your creative […]

Videos

Poetry TEDx Talk

TED talks are an amazing source of material for writers but this one is actually about writing poetry.

Writing Challenges

NaPoWriMo 2017

April is National Poetry Writing Month as well as several other writing challenges. The origins of the poem a day writing drive can be found here and it is also […]

Exercises

Rock Pools

Rock pools are little worlds onto themselves, little creatures interacting with hierarchy. Do they realise that there is a world out there that is bigger? A whole ocean for little […]

Exercises

Idea Spiral

Idea have a habit of breeding more ideas, this can be brilliant and make you really productive or it can de-rail the writing process and you simple have too many […]

Pep Talks

Weekend Time is Rhyme Time

Weekends (or when ever your days off are) are valuable, if you are not a full time writer then weekends are often the golden time for writing. Set some solid […]

Exercises

Heroes

Who is your favourite hero or anti-hero? What is it that intrigues you about them? Are they squeaky clean and perfect or do they have a dark past to hide […]