Tentacles Poetry Workshops: Summer Taster course

Come and create in community! Write poetry in this series of facilitated workshops for disabled writers. All levels welcome.

Join Tentacles for a new series of facilitated poetry workshops for anyone who considers themself to be d/Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent and/or chronically ill.

Work on developing your poetic voice and honing your craft in this series of poetry workshops, offered both in person and online. Meet with the same group each week, for 4 weeks, to explore new ways of expressing yourself through poetry. If you sign up for the series, you also get access to the Tentacles Discord to share and get feedback on poems and the opportunity to be part of a showcase performance and an anthology publication.

The workshops will be led by Neal Pike and August Stone, with guided writing exercises and opportunity to share work. We use a variety of art as inspiration: poems, music, visual art, to help get the creative juices flowing and get you writing new and exciting things.

In August, we'll be meeting for our 2-week Summer Taster course to write poetry together. These are cohort workshops, where we build a trust and knowledge of each other and our work throughout the weeks, so we expect everyone signed up to attend each session if possible. The workshops are going to be run as a hybrid of in-person and online, so please book your space according to how you would like to attend.

FREE Summer Taster 2025 course dates:

• Thursday 21st August
• Thursday 28th August

We are running 5 courses in our 2025-26 series, and each course will be unique, so please feel free to sign up to multiple blocks if you’d like (though no pressure!). We will also be running some one-off masterclasses with published writers from across the UK between our 4-week courses, so look out for those too!

Tentacles is run by and for disabled people. We will ask you to provide a few personal details in advance to make sure we can meet your access needs, and if you have any questions, please get in touch with us!

If you have a personal support/care assistant and you are planning to attend in person, please book an ‘in person assistant’ ticket for your PA as we need to know how many people are going to be in the room for health and safety reasons.

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