About the course 

This series of workshops is suitable for beginning, emerging or established writers looking to write about what we contain within and what we find without our bodies.

Here, we will look at the poetics of our names, as well as the spaces we occupy. Exercises will span reading and writing of contemporary poetry, but also dream journals, photography, bookmaking and visual art, using Manchester Library’s special book collection. This course seeks a multidiscplinary approach to writing about the tactile in new and intimate ways. 

About the tutor 

Chloe Elliott is a writer and artist based in York. She is a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize for her debut pamphlet Encyclopaedia, out now. In 2020, she won the Gold Creative Future Writers’ Award. Her writing features in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, bath magg, berlin lit, Bedtime Stories for the End of the World, Magma, The North, Strix amongst others. She works for Aesthetica and Modern Poetry in Translation. 

 

 

 

 

Who is it for? 

Open to all underrepresented writers—those who face barriers due to mental health challenges, physical health/disability, sensory impairment, learning disabilities, neurodivergence, substance misuse, survivors, working class backgrounds, those from the LGBTQIA+ community, and/or from Black, Asian, traveller, mixed heritage or other global majority backgrounds. 

Dates & Time 

Saturdays, 4 / 11 / 18 May 

10:30am – 12:30pm 

About the venue 

Room 3:09 (4 & 18 May)
Movement Studio (11 May) 

Manchester Poetry Library
Grosvenor Building
Cavendish Street
Manchester
M15 6BG 

Please click here and here for more information about transport and parking. 

Access 

The venue is fully accessible. 

You can see our full access commitments here. Please add any additional requirements when booking. 

Please get in touch if you have particular needs we can try and accommodate on [email protected] or 01273 234 780 (Tuesdays only or voicemail). This can include: 

• disabled access 
• help with travel costs 
• help with childcare costs 

Tickets 

• Standard Ticket – £7.50 
• Carer Ticket – £0