Sub Club: Poetry Workshop

Join us on our series of Saturday morning get togethers for reading and discussion of the fantastic range of materials which the Manchester Poetry Library holds, plus online magazines, led by what’s open at the time and participants’ interests.

We tackle practical issues too and often have insights shared with us direct from Editors. You will come away with a sense of fellowship, more focussed understanding of individual magazines and ways to read them which help make submissions more effective. Publications we have explored previously include (for example) Acumen, Black Box Manifold, Gutter, Interpreter’s House, Obsessed with Pipework, Pennine Platform, Poetry Strasbourg, Poetry Wales, PN Review, The North, Shearsman and Wasafiri. Please do join us to explore the cosmos of poetry publishing together and see where might make good homes for your poems. A few words from previous participants (with thanks for this feedback to share!) on what they gained from Sub Club: ‘awareness of the different styles of different magazines, what they look for and want’, ‘more confidence to send off to “the establishment”’, ‘I have already experienced good results by being strategic and analytical’. ’Sub Club made the poetry terrain less daunting and more accessible’ with ‘helpful, frank conversations’ and ’the sessions were fun - positive vibes.’

Half poet, half tutor, half clown, Susie Wilson is in Scottish LGBTQ+ writer living a Sheffield, with two published pamphlets, Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve Poetry Press 2024, winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2024) & Skin the Rabbit (The Braag 2025). She holds MAs in Creative Writing (Poetry) (Manchester Metropolitan University), Education (University of London) and English (Oxford), with work appearing widely in magazines, for example in Acumen, Ambient Receiver, Carmen et Error, Gather, Ink Sweat & Tears, Northern Gravy, Propel, Tears in the Fence and Stand. She is now spending a year writing long poems about the Don and the Spey rivers, including collaborating with musicians and other performers, funded by the Arts Council. Please see more or get in touch at @concordmoose and susiewilsonpoet.com. Susie also mentors, promotes local poets, teaches for Writing East Midlands’ Beyond the Spectrum and facilitates Poetry Sub Club in person at Sheffield Central Library.

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