Join Susie Wilson for this free BSL interpreted session to get insights and tips on how to build a successful pamphlet for submission to the Disabled Poets Prize
Putting Good Pamphlets Together for the Disabled Poets Prize 2025
This workshop for D/deaf and disabled writers.
Are you busy trying to put a pamphlet of poetry together? Are you thinking of submitting a short collection? Have you thought about entering the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 Best Unpublished Pamphlet competition? Have you stalled, put it off, got in a muddle, felt like you could do with help?
If so, this structured workshop is for you. Susie Wilson, winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2024 best unpublished poetry pamphlet, will share some of what might sometimes be regarded as ‘insider knowledge’ about how good pamphlets get put together (including examples to compare), and lead you through modelled exercises which you can run your own material through (in the workshop or afterwards, as you prefer). There will be time for a Q&A on issues which participants want to bring to the workshop about building your successful pamphlet. We will cover selection of poems, editing, sequencing and patterning, and obtaining and using feedback.
Who is the workshop for?
The workshop is for open to all D/deaf and disabled writers. It is timed so that if you are considering submitting your unpublished pamphlet to the Disabled Poets Prize 2025, you can use it to put together your submission. If you have other aims (other competitions or presses you are considering submitting to) which you would like us to be aware of, please do communicate them on booking.
Access
- BSL interpreted
- Captions
- Relaxed space
- Workshop pre-reading (including outline of contents of workshop) sent through in advance
- Recording of workshop available to participants for a fortnight after the event
About the Disabled Poets Prize
The UK’s first Disabled Poets Prize was launched in 2023 and looks to find the best work created by UK-based deaf and disabled poets. Set up by Jamie Hale, the Jerwood Poetry Fellow 2021-22 and award-winning poet, the Disabled Poets Prize is a collaboration between Spread the Word, Verve Poetry Press, and CRIPtic Arts in partnership with The Literary Consultancy and Arvon Foundation. Deaf and disabled poets face significant barriers to developing their careers. The Disabled Poets Prize brings the work of the winning writers to new prominence, focusing attention on the exceptional work being produced by deaf and disabled writers. It is the first poetry prize in the UK specifically for deaf and disabled poets.
For more information on submitting to the 2025 Disabled Poets Prize visit: disabledpoetsprize.org.uk
The 2025 Disabled Poets Prize is supported by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).
Susie Wilson
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Susie is an auDHD Scottish poet and English tutor, living in Sheffield. Her Disabled Poets Prize 2024 winning pamphlet, Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed, dealing with living with stage 4 melanoma and the cutting-edge science used to treat it, is published in November 2024 with Verve Poetry Press. You can read her work currently in Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Northern Gravy, Black Bough and Envoi, forthcoming in Carmen et Error and at the Manchester Poetry Library (as part of their summer 2024 late diagnosed autistic project). She has been widely published in anthologies such as for the Gloucestershire, Winchester, Cambrian Mountains and Shepton Mallet Competitions, with poems also commended by The Fresher and Poets & Players Prizes, and longlisted in The Rialto Nature Competition. Skin The Rabbit, a chapbook with The Braag, will be out in May 2025. She holds three MAs, including a Distinction in Creative Writing: Poetry from The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is an experienced facilitator and mentor. Please say hello @concordmoose.bsky.social or via www.susiewilsonpoet.com