Poet Sarah Hemings shares some of her top tips from a few months of mentoring with Fiona Benson on the Dialect x Arts Council scheme

Writer in residence Stephen Connolly shares his latest radio play and waves farewell to Dialect… for now

Intrepid writer in residence Stephen Connolly ventures out to explore Lake 32 by paddleboard …

Stephen Connolly begins his third and final month’s residency on the lake in Cotswold Water Park.

One of our writers in residence, Jacqui Stearn, shares a new poem and reflects on the deep challenges of parenting in the climate crisis

Writer in Residence Jacqui Stearn on the contradiction of driving to the lake in search of ecopoetic inspiration and facing in to the climate emergency

“I roll from job to job, hand to mouth, living in one of the few rentals left in my neighbourhood. It’s not really big enough for me and my two teenage boys but we manage. We wonder how long it will last until the landlord decides to cash in, maybe next month, maybe never, you just don’t know for sure.”

Writer in Residence Jacqui Stearn on swimming and the sonnet redouble

An evening of readings by Stroud Poets for Liz Willis

From our Arts Council mentoring scheme, Kate Keogan blogs on finalising her poetry pamphlet and the editorial practices that can make it so hard for ‘new voices’ to get heard …

JLM Morton chats to Jon Smith on BBC Radio Glos, all about DIRT, our new venture into indie publishing, and how we’re trying to reduce isolation for rural writers.

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Wordsworth dated his Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour the 13th July 1798 and this year, on the same date, we walked in his footsteps. Philip Rush looks back at this recent extreme writing workshop.

From our Arts Council mentoring scheme, Kate Keogan blogs on accountability and showing up at the page.

Dialect mentee Audrey Healy on realising that the best thing she could do for her writing might be to let her novel go …

Poet Diana Humphrey on her experience of two recent Dialect poetry courses

Post-pandemic, I had resolved to say “yes” to opportunities. Next step: borrow a wetsuit … travel writer Deborah Gray on joining a Dialect Swim-Write Workshop

From our Arts Council mentoring scheme, Kate Keogan blogs on the pressure and precipitation of writing and refining poems for a pamphlet

Kate Thomas, a participant on one of our recent Swim-Writes on the Thames in June 2021 produced this stunning poetry film in response to our workshop.

Writer in Residence Hannah Persaud blogs about how Life in all its fullness and horror has a habit of rolling on … in spite of writing deadlines.

Kate Keogan on meeting up with her fellow mentees and the inescapable intensity of the writer’s gaze …