Happy May Day! Another month rolls around with a brand new list of over 150 poetry competitions, writing submissions and opportunities open or with deadlines in May 2024.
Today is also the Irish celebration of Bealtaine, one of the traditional fire festivals of the Celtic calendar and you can explore into these ancient summer rituals in a brand new writing prompt on the blog.
We’ve just finished up our NaPoWriMo 30-day writing challenge Songs of a Pagan Place | Writing the Irish Myths & Legends with a fantastic group reading – it’s also a real pleasure to hear the work generated by these courses and I was blown away by the imagination and talent these writers brought to the materials. Congrats to everyone who took part!
Coming up this month, I’ll be running my popular 6-week intermediate course starting 22 May – Writing Slant | Making a Poem which takes a deep dive into the making of a poem. It’s the perfect way to revisit all those first drafts and put them through their paces before sending them out for publication.
And in June, I’ll be running a couple of daytime 4-week Poetry Workshop groups on Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoons, which are filling up fast, so best be quick!
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Thank you!
a dreaming skin 