Women Poets' Network Webinar: GET VISIBLE
Thu 14 Nov 2024 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT
Online, Zoom
Description
As part of the two-year By Poets, For Poets programme, this online event is designed to support poets at all stages of their career to build visibility and confidence in the literary world.
Join our panel of poets and industry experts for a lively conversation on how to get noticed as a poet, both online and offline!
We’ll dive into what it means to be visible, share practical tips, and discuss how to overcome the cringe factor we all feel when it comes to self-promotion. Whether you’re just starting out or well into your career, we'll offer helpful provocations to get you thinking about your own visibility. If you have a publication out (or forthcoming), we’ll also break down what support you can expect from your publishers and what they expect from you in return.
After the panel, stay with us for a short workshop to create your own action plan for getting visible!
Access: BSL interpretation and live subtitles will be available.
Can’t make it live? Don’t worry! The webinar will be recorded and made available to ticket holders for a limited time.
About our panel:
Victoria Adukwei Bulley a poet, writer and artist. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber & Faber in the UK and in North America by Knopf, Penguin Random House.
Alice Dewing is an award-winning publicist. She has worked at FMcM Associates working with literary organisations including National Poetry Day, Wellcome Book Prize, The Literary Consultancy, Cheltenham Literature Festival and The Forward Prizes for Poetry. At Picador she was responsible for the PR and marketing for Picador Poetry. She’s now at Cornerstone where she looks after the brand PR for #Merky Books and runs PR campaigns across various lists. She has been a trustee of the Women Poets' Prize since 2022.
Len Pennie is a poet who writes predominantly in the Scots language. She writes passionately about minority languages, domestic abuse, and the destigmatisation of mental illness. Her debut collection poyums, was a #2 Sunday Times bestseller.
Our chair is Degna Stone, a poet and poetry editor based in northeast England, is the project manager for the Rebecca Swift Foundation. They are also a contributing editor at The Rialto and a co-founder of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine. Their debut full-length collection, Proof of Life on Earth, is available from Nine Arches Press.