Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue 7th Oct - Thu 30th Oct, 2025
7:00pm - 9:00pm
A poem is never just a poem
It’s a set of school workshops, a masterclass in a prison, the founding of a new organisation, it’s a film or even a novel. This course will consider how we write poetry that can be practically applied, leading to a greater understanding of poetic technique, of school and adult oriented networks for workshops and courses, of writing funding applications, and more.
Drawing from her own experience of founding national projects, adapting work into theatre and screenplay, and writing award-winning collections, Joelle invites you to write new material, read widely, discuss freely and imagine a future as a professional writer and poet.
- How a poem becomes a workshop
- How a poem becomes a project
- How a poem becomes a book
- How a poem becomes theatre or screen play
There are two full-fee bursaries available for this course for UK-based writers who experience marginalisation. If you would like to apply for one of these bursaries, please email awards@moniackmhor.org.uk by 7th August 2025 with a short cover letter explaining how the full-fee bursary for this course would benefit you, and a short sample of your creative work (maximum 6 pages, no minimum.) Please note: partial bursaries are also always available for any of our courses through our open bursary scheme here.
Moniack in a Month: Poetry with Purpose includes:
- a short introductory welcome session
- four stimulating online workshops, preceded by optional drop-in social time
- one 30-minute tutorial
- a final ceilidh session – sharing of work
- Contact and support from your community of writers via Google Classroom (optional)
- Drop-ins before each workshop to help you get to know your group (optional)
- Support from your Moniack Mhor host
Joelle’s workshops will focus on the following themes:
Workshop 1 – How a poem becomes a workshop
Workshop 2 – How a poem becomes a project
Workshop 3 – How a poem becomes a book
Workshop 4 – How a poem becomes theatre or screen play
Timetable
Week 1 Tuesday 7 Oct 18:30–21:00 Welcome Session and Workshop 1
Week 2 Tuesday 14 Oct 19:00–21:00 Workshop 2
Week 3 Tuesday 21 Oct 19:00–21:00 Workshop 3
Week 4 Tuesday 28 Oct 19:00–21:00 Workshop 4
Week 4 Thursday 30 Oct 19:00–21:00 Ceilidh
Tutorials
Your one-to-one tutorial with Joelle will be scheduled when the course starts and will most likely take place in weeks 2 or 3.
Tutor
Joelle Taylor is the author of four collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted both for theatre, and into a television screenplay, and was featured on Radio Three documentary Butch. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil. She is a Poetry Fellow of the University of East Anglia and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023 and has judged several poetry and literary prizes including the Jerwood Fellowship, the Forward Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize. Her novel The Night Alphabet was published in spring of 2024 and was named both a Spectator and Guardian Book of the Year. Her most recent radio programme A Young Girl’s Guide to Horror was broadcast at the end of 2024 on BBC Radio Four. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. She was recently honoured with a DIVA Award for Excellence and named as number 15 in the Independent’s 2024 Pride Power list. Her next collection Maryville will be published by Bloomsbury in 2025.
Fees
The full fee for this online course is £360. A deposit of £100 is required to secure your place, which is non-refundable after a 14-day cooling-off period. The balance payment of £260 is due six weeks before the course begins.
Bursaries are available, and you also have the option to pay in instalments. Please email online@moniackmhor.org.uk to enquire.
All activity takes place on Zoom, and workshops include a short break. Moniack Mhor staff will be on hand to support you during your course.
For more information please email online@moniackmhor.org.uk.
Access
Please let us know in your booking form if you have any access requirements when working online so we can do our best to support you. For more information about access to our courses, please visit our Access page.
Terms and Conditions
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