POETRY FRUIT MACHINE WITH ELLA FREARS

POETRY FRUIT MACHINE 
THU 27 NOV 2025 / 6 - 8 PM
a poetry workshop with Ella Frears

@roughtradebooks

COST: £25
We are also offering a limited number of concessionary tickets at £15 for those on lower incomes
Glass of wine, beer or soft drinks and nibbles included

DAY: Thursday 27^th November
TIME: 6 - 8 PM
LOCATION: The School Room, Art Centre Penryn
LEVEL: suitable for everyone, writers and non-writers! 

Join in a fun poetry workshop for everyone

‘You do not need to be a poet to play Poetry Fruit Machine. You do not need to know anything about poetry, literature or art to play this game. We believe anyone can write a truly brilliant poem.’
Ella Frears and Jessica Todd

photo credit: Joseph Lynn

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Poet Ella Frears brings you a workshop designed around the Poetry Fruit Machine, her newly published literary game co-written with Jessica Todd. In this workshop, Ella will guide you through a range of writing prompts and exercises to build poetic technique and up your writing game.

WHO IS THIS CLASS SUITABLE FOR?

This is a fun and accessible workshop for everyone, including poets and writers at any stage looking to develop or re-invigorate their work, or artists from other disciplines who would like to bring poetry/writing/text into their practice. It is suitable for people at all stages of their writing career as well as people who simply enjoy playing with words.

photo credit: Joseph Lynn

ABOUT POETRY FRUIT MACHINE

POETRY FRUIT MACHINE is an addictive literary game for the materially broke, spiritual high-roller. A lucky card deck featuring startlingly original gamified writing prompts and generative fruit machine symbols—POETRY FRUIT MACHINE is the jackpot deluxe, a one-stop language entertainment slot machine, providing you with all the tools you need to get started, go all-in, build poetic technique and win big.

POETRY FRUIT MACHINE contains…
- 54 poetry prompt cards featuring high-opportunity formal constraints, chance elements, gamified instructions and perverse restrictions with 54 classic and mysterious fruit machine symbols illustrated by HATTIE STEWART—pull the lever, spin the reels and discover your poetic destiny.
- 36-page booklet with poetry terms glossary, bonus games and guidance on meaning of symbols.

A must-have for any poet, or aspiring poet, anyone looking to up their writing game, or to take the edge off the blank page. For lovers of word games, dopamine and literary challenge.

Copies of the game will be available to buy on the night, priced £19.99
The Poetry Fruit Machine is published by Rough Trade Books @roughtradebooks

symbol illustration by @hattiestewart

ABOUT ELLA FREARS

Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. Her debut collection, Shine, Darling, (Offord Road Books, 2020) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Goodlord, (Rough Trade Books, 2024) her new hybrid work which takes the form of one long email to an estate agent, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the Sky Arts Awards’ Times Breakthrough Artist of the Year.

Ella has had poetry published in the London Review of Books, the Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Ambit, The Rialto, and the Moth among others. In 2019, she was one of four finalists for the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Poetry and was commended in the National Poetry Competition.

Ella has taught poetry and creative writing for City Lit, as an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths University, as a Guest Lecturer for Falmouth University, and University East London, as well as running freelance workshops for various spaces and organisations including Arvon, the Guardian, the Poetry School, the Poetry Society, Kew Gardens, Dartington, and Spread the Word.

www.ellarfrears.com
Instagram: @ellafrears

REFUND/EXCHANGE POLICY

Art Centre Penryn is a small, non-profit organisation and our courses form a really important part of our income, we are therefore not able to offer refunds within 30 days of the course or workshop date. We offer the following refund/exchange options:

If it is more than 30 days from the start date, we can offer a full refund, less the booking fee. Within 30 days days from the course start date, we cannot offer a refund, but we could transfer you to another course, or offer a voucher for you to use to book another course. Alternatively, you could send someone else in your place, please just email us to let us know.

We're sorry, but we are unable to offer a last minute exchange within 24 hrs, or after the course, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Thanks for your understanding.

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