Hi Everyone
Below you will find our three new short three week courses for December, January and February. Our December Poetry Workshop, which starts on 1st December (we will accept new registrations for the workshop up to Sunday) which will be over 4 weeks, is proving to be very popular and I have a lot of surprises planned for those taking part. There are many other short courses available. For a full list please see https://www.poetrykit.org/pkcourse/pkcourses_short.htm
In addition there is no better time to start along the road to better writing than right now. You can start 2024 with a whole new approach and a surer pathway to writing success. The Poetry Kit offers a number of great mentoring packages and longer courses. And all our courses can be taken wherever you are in the world as long as you have email access and there are no time constraints, you can generally work at a time and pace that suits you.
BURSARIES - We have bursaries available for Mentoring and other longer courses and application is easy and non-intrusive. So if you would like to be considered for one of those package’s please let us know. Write to [log in to unmask] You can find details of all courses at https://www.poetrykit.org/pkcourse/pkcourses.htm
Our International Competition it is now open for entries. Details of all this and other opportunities from Poetry Kit are listed below.
THE POETRY KIT 11th INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION 2024 THE POETRY KIT 11th INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION 2024
Our competition this year is open to poems from around the world written in English and which can be on any subject or theme. There are no style or length restrictions, but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be selected as a longer one.
Prize values 1st £220 2nd £60 3rd £30
Entry is by email to [log in to unmask] after an appropriate fee is paid by Pay Pal to the account of [log in to unmask]
all entries must be received before midnight 15th January 2024
Entries received after this time will be discarded. All entries are judged anonymously so please do not put any identifying features on the poems.
Entry fees are as follows; 1 poem £3.50 3 Poems £8.00 5 poems £10
Competition Judge; James Bain
James is a spoken word and visual artist, from Glasgow, now living in the North West of England. In 2018 he was poet in residence at Formby Shore. His poetry from this time is collected in "The New Bridge a collection of poems".
See www.poetrykit.org/comp1.htm
THE MENTORING PROGRAMME
Is available to all poets who want to make progress and get help with voice style or precision in producing poems that are original, engaging, and authentic. There are three progressive mentoring programmes available plus two additional programmes for those seeking help with projects or producing collections. Our personal one to one mentoring programme costs £110 Mentoring consists of 30 lessons and can be completed in approx 20 weeks. For further details or to enrol on this programme, go to https://poetrykit.org/pkcourse/pkcourses_ment.htm
MASTERCLASS MENTORING PROGRAMME
Our new Masterclass Mentoring Programme is available to anyone who feels that it is time to move on in their career as a poet. With a stunning number of tasks and challenges and lots of clear and positive feedback it presents a pathway to improvement and career development enabling our students to produce a portfolio of poems suitable for a collection or for competition entry. Our masterclass programme is £220. The masterclass consists of 40 lessons. For further details or to enrol on this programme, go to
https://poetrykit.org/pkcourse/pkcourses_mclass.htm
You can find details of all courses at https://www.poetrykit.org/pkcourse/pkcourses.htm
NEW IN DECEMBER
December Poetry Workshop (NEW)
4 weeks of holiday poetry fun to fit around your shopping and holiday preparations. Poetry exercises that will inspire you to engage with the season like never before. We will be looking to develop poems from the small events and the large, from the personal to nature and the time of year. This will be a fun workshop with the serious intent to produce some fine poetry. The course will be conducted online over three weeks, at a cost of £30 –
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=989FB56VMMRA6
NEW IN JANUARY
A Different Way to See (NEW)
Sometimes we want to write a poem but end up dissatisfied with the results this is a short course to introduce you to new ways to see and engage with an object or subject. Develop a new perspective that will enhance your poetry and build a deeper understanding. There will be some aspects of poetry explored on this course that you probable have never thought of in the way that we will look at them. The course will be conducted online over 3 weeks at a cost of £30.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6XLN32565Q7K4
NEW IN FEBRUARY
Making it Real (NEW)
How do you make something in a poem appear real and authentic for the reader? How can you make something real that is very hard to describe, or make a person in a poem feel like a real person? How do you avoid cliché and caricature? These are just some of the issues that we will explore in this short course. The course will be conducted online over 3 weeks at a cost of £30.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6XGG97SFK24U4
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