Experienced mentor Jacqui Rowe, founder of the Making Poetry programme, offers two options to help support and develop your poetry. Jacqui is also a Critical Reader for the National Association of Writers in Education, and as co-editor of the award-winning Flarestack Poets press, she is very practised in appraising and assessing poets' work. Current mentees include Birmingham Poet Laureate, Roy McFarlane, and a Foyle YOung Poet of the year and previous mentees have been successful in having books published, poems appear in leading magazine and shortlisting for major awards.
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FLEXIBLE ONE-TO-ONE MENTORING BY EMAIL, PHONE OR IN PERSON
Jacqui Rowe offers sympathetic, realistic, knowledgeable and creative support for your development as a poet, through a series of meetings. Jacqui will help you develop your own work and also suggest suitable reading, ways of making links with other poets, and, when you're ready, what to do about getting your work out there.There is no commitment to continue mentring at any stage. Some poets might prefer a structured monthly programme; others might prefer ad hoc sessions or just a single one-to-ne session. Initial session £50, subsequent sessions £35 (+ travel expenses where appropriate)
CRITICAL READING AND MANUSCRIPT APPRAISAL
Send up to 12 pages of poetry (up to 40 lines per page) for a detailed 1000+ word report identifying strengths and suggesting areas for development, both of specific poems and of the work as a whole, as well as suggestions for reading and for what to do with your work. Please send an accompanying letter indicating where you are with your work, where you would like to go and any specific issues you would like addressed in the report, for example titles, endings, finding a voice. £60
TO BOOK MENTORING OR CRITICAL READING AND MANUSCRIPT APPRAISAL, OR TO DISCUSS EITHER FURTHER, PLEASE CONTACT JACQUI ON jacquirowe@hotmail.co.uk or 07971018825