Level up your poetic craft in this workshop series with JLM Morton
This autumn term of Level Up workshops has sold out. Booking is open for January here and if you’d like to go on the waiting list in case of drop outs (it does happen), please email juliette.morton@dialect.org.uk.
Elevate your poetic craft in this dynamic workshop series tailored for those already writing and eager to take their poetry to new heights. Each session dives into the essential building blocks of poetic practice, from reading to refining your voice, helping you build confidence and broaden your poetic range.
Our goal is to foster a supportive community of writers, offering a safe space where constructive feedback and genuine camaraderie fuel your growth. Here, we celebrate each other’s successes and turn moments of failure into opportunities to comeback better.
In each session, you will:
- delve into poetic structures like lineation, meter, stanza, conventional and innovative forms
- engage in close readings of fresh, contemporary British, Irish and American poetry
- get a prompt inspired by close readings
- workshop your own poems with peers and receive valuable insights to strengthen your work
- participate in open discussions, Q&As, and tackle any challenges that arise in your writing journey between sessions
With a small, intimate group, every participant gets ample time to share and contribute. We'll provide recommended reading lists and expect everyone to engage with the selected texts for in-depth discussions each month.
This critique group is a great option if you want to polish your work to publication standard and/or prepare a poetry pamphlet or collection for submission to a publisher.
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good.
It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
Malcolm Gladwell Outliers (2008)
Expect to explore works by poets like Charlotte Shevchenko Knight, Gboyega Odubanjo, Harry Josephine Giles, John Burnside, Chen Chen, Jericho Brown, Nick Laird, Diane Seuss, Malika Booker, Padraig Regan, Jack Underwood, Clare Pollard, Helen Mort, Fady Joudah, and others.
To keep the inspiration flowing between workshops, an online platform, like a WhatsApp group, will be available for sharing links, insights, and opportunities. Join us and transform your poetry with the support of a vibrant, creative community!
This workshop will take place online to facilitate access for a diverse cohort.
Tutor
Your tutor for Level Up! will be JLM Morton. See below for further information.
Fee
£120 for three x 3 hour workshops (per term). Note that this group will run October - December 2024 and January - March 2025. Booking is below.
Please note, we realise money is tight for many of us at the moment so we’ve set up an instalment option to pay in two @ £60 each OR a monthly option to pay £40 over 3 months.
For instalments, the second instalment will be due 2 weeks before the course starts (17th September).
For monthly payments, the next instalments will be due 1 Novemer and 1 December.
Select whichever option is best for you below to secure your space.
Dates and timing
Tuesday evenings 6pm - 9pm
1st October 2024
5th November 2024
3rd December 2024
(2025 dates will be: 7th January, 4th February, 4th March).
Your tutor: JLM Morton
Winner of the Laurie Lee and Geoffrey Dearmer prizes, JLM Morton’s work has been published in Poetry Review, Rialto, Poetry Birmingham, Magma and elsewhere. Lake 32 was her debut pamphlet about a year in the life of a lake (Yew Tree Press, 2020). Juliette is currently poet in residence at Sladebank Woods, a semi-urban woodland sandwiched between a housing estate and the ‘National Landscape’ of the Cotswold Hills. Her first collection, Red Handed, is out now with Broken Sleep (2024).
Juliette has more than 20 years’ experience facilitating workshops with adult learners and is the Co-Director of Dialect.
