Creating Your Poetry Collection

Creating Your Poetry Collection with Charlotte Lunn

Course Length: The course is delivered in three sessions, over three weeks. Each session is 2 hours long.

Course Dates:

• We’re taking a little break from our live courses right now. We’ll be back in late 2025. Please join the waiting list to be the first to hear about the next date this course is running. Thanks for your support.

Price - £149 per person.

This is an online course delivered live via Zoom. You’ll need access to Zoom on a mobile, tablet, or computer and an internet connection.

*Please note, that this course is for those creatives who have already completed at least two poems. This is because, as part of the course, the group will feedback and reflect on poems written by course attendees. You’ll need to send these poems before the course starts so we can prepare feedback and circulate the poems.

Overview

We believe your poetry can change the world. And we can help you bring it to the page.

Have you always wanted to create a collection of poems, but you don’t know where to start? Are longing to receive detailed feedback and critique on your work? Do you ever wonder how to approach publishers and how to submit poetry proposals?

We can help. 

Our Creating Your Poetry Collection course is perfect for those looking to take their poetry to the next level, with expert tuition, feedback on your work, and advice from an independent publishing house ­–this course will help you learn how to curate your own poetry collection.

Week One:

• We’ll explore all the aspects that are needed to create a poetry collection. Such as the title, themes, arc, and imagery, we’ll tackle this by analysing published poetry collections and learning how to replicate success. We’ll also discuss your ideas for your own work.

Week Two:

• During the second week of the course, you’ll develop your editing skills by reviewing and reflecting on the work of other course attendees. Each attendee will bring along two poems from their potential collection. All poems will be circulated amongst the attendees prior to the course beginning.

• We’ll also provide you with editing and critique tips to help you give your peers the most useful feedback.  

Week Three:

• During the last week of our course, we’ll welcome our extra special guest speaker, Isabelle Kenyon. Isabelle is the founder, publisher, and editor at Fly On The Wall Press. She will be joining us at the beginning of the session to discuss how to pitch your work to a publisher and answer any questions you may have.

• After this, we will delve into various examples of submission rules and guidelines, what publishers are looking for and how to choose the right publisher before working on your own pitch.

Whether you’re hoping to get your collection traditionally published or if you want to curate your poems just for yourself, this course will help you feel motivated and excited to start writing. 

What’s more:

• When the course starts, you’ll also receive a signed copy of Charlotte Lunn’s debut poetry collection, Metamorphosis (Verve Poetry Press 2021). Postage + packaging included.

• We are only offering 6 places for this course. You will work with a small, intimate group of like-minded people. We wanted to create a supportive environment to allow you to feel comfortable and confident.  

• You’ll have email support throughout the course, should you have questions or need help. 

• After completing the course, you’ll gain access to a private storyteller’s Facebook group, exclusively for our course alumni. The group is bursting with regular ideas, prompts, tips, and a supportive community full of like-minded people to help you on your writing journey. 

This course is for you if:

• You want to learn how to curate your poems into a collection.

• You want to gain constructive feedback on your work.

• You want incredible insights from a publisher and editor to learn how to best approach them for publication.

• You want to support other poets and provide them with useful feedback.

• You want to discuss your ideas and develop a plan for your own poetry collection.

Don’t just take our word for it. Listen to this incredible interview with JC Niala (one of our past course participants) as she talks about the poetry collection she created after taking part in our course . . .

This course is delivered by Charlotte Lunn, Derbyshire based poet, workshop facilitator and bookseller. To find out more about Charlotte listen to her interview on the Derbyshire Writing School podcast.

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