Creative Writing Workshops

If you’re a refugee, immigrant or asylum-seeking writer and are interested in exploring your own poetry and prose, Exiled Writers Ink offers the following classes.

The classes are free but you need to join Exiled Writers Ink: £20 for the year. Join here https://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/exiled-membership/
If there are problems paying, please discuss this in confidence.

Register: exiledwritersink@gmail.com

Poetry Workshops with Tamsin Hopkins, published poet (Monthly)

The last Wednesday of the month. 7pm to 8.30pm by Zoom. There will also be an optional extra half hour with technical material and exercises for those with the stamina for it, meaning that the finishing time for the whole event is 9pm. And optional homework for the really keen.

Everyone is welcome, whatever standard or experience. The exercises and material work for everyone, so come along and write with us.

Exciting sessions have included looking at how the techniques used in Mexican visual art might be helpful to us as poets.

Co-operative Support Group(monthly) facilitated by Omer Aksoy

Wednesdays mid-monthly, evening one hour long.

I collect the poems from you via email and collate them into a collective document to share with the whole group, so that people have a chance to read the poems before the session starts. In the session we discuss the poems randomly take turns to talk about what works well in the poem and what could be improved and how.. Mutual understanding and respect for each other are the only rules during our sessions.

We also bring a notable published poem for analysis for the last session of each term.

Prose Writing (Monthly)

Tutors: Elena Croitoru, published poet and award winner and Danielle Maisano, published novelist

This is a group designed for writers who are currently working on a novel/novella, memoir or other long-form prose projects. Each month writers will be selected in advance to present an excerpt from their current project for a critique and constructive feedback on their work. Depending on the readings, we hope to be able to explore different aspects and techniques as they arise and to offer continued and more in-depth support throughout the evolution of longer-term writing projects.
Last Tuesday of each month, 6 to 8 pm

Exiled Writers Ink and The Literary Consultancy’s Free Read Scheme

Do you have a refugee or migrant background?

• Exiled Writers Ink is one of the Literary Consultancy’s partners and we are currently accepting submissions for the Scheme from those with refugee and migrant backgrounds.
• The Scheme is an opportunity for talented, low-income writers to receive professional feedback on their work. This will be a long, detailed report.
• Please now send your poetry or short stories or novels or play extracts to Exiled Writers Ink.
• We will assess it for quality and then forward it to The Literary Consultancy.
• Send in a 12 size font and double spaced, except for poetry.
• Send your work to exiledwritersink@gmail.com