Venue: Sheffield Plate (downstairs)

Each month we invite a published author to share their work and insight into their writing journey, and then we open the floor to emerging writers in our open-mic segment. Your work doesn't have to be polished ... it just needs to sound about right!

To reserve an open-mic slot, email workshopwrite@gmail.com before 6:00PM on the day.

After hosting a series of novelists to start of the year, we're excited to be welcome our first poet of the year, Ian Parks! We've seen him described as the 'finest poet of his generation', so we can't wait to hear from him!

Ian will bring us a poet's perspective on the writer's journey - talking us through his inspirations, challenges and sharing some of his poetry as well.

Ian Parks is a poet and academic. He is the editor of Versions of the North: Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry and his Selected Poems 1983-2023 was pyblished by Calder Valley Poetry last year. His translations of the modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy were a Poetry Book Society Choice. He is a founding member of the Ted Hughes Poetry Festival and runs the Read to Write Project in Doncaster. His poems have appeared in The Morning Star, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, and Poetry (Chicago).

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