Wise Women Poetry Workshop: Autumn 2025
Wise Women is a small monthly workshop focusing on the poetry of women and non-binary people. Be inspired by skiful and powerful poets, and get feedback on your work in a nurturing group space.
The Exchange Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF.
Writing Our Lives I: Autumn 2025
‘Even if you think you know what the story is, you don’t until you write it.’
- Melissa Febos
In five fortnightly in-person sessions we’ll explore considerations and techniques in prose life writing—memoir, autobiography, autofiction, personal essays, and work that crosses boundaries of genre and form.
The Exchange Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF.
Wise Women Poetry Workshop: Spring 2026
Wise Women is a small monthly workshop focusing on the poetry of women and non-binary people. Be inspired by skiful and powerful poets, and get feedback on your work in a nurturing group space.
The Exchange Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF.
Writing Our Lives II: Spring 2026
‘And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.’
- Sylvia Plath
In five fortnightly in-person sessions we’ll explore considerations and techniques in prose life writing—memoir, autobiography, autofiction, personal essays, and work that crosses boundaries of genre and form.
The Exchange Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF.
Workshop feedback
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'I cannot praise Kate Potts’ poetry writing courses highly enough. So far I’ve attended three. She is a skilled, generous and sensitive tutor who can guide the dynamics of a writing group to produce work that astounds! She presents well-researched material you want to get your teeth into, stimulating prompts/homework, and excellent feedback and editing suggestions. Brilliant! Thank you Kate.'
Caroline Shaw, poet
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'Kate is intelligent and perceptive, and her sessions are well-researched and stimulating. Taking Kate’s Wise Women poetry course has really pushed my writing and helped me to progress and explore new avenues. I’ve really enjoyed our sessions!'
Rose Lennard, poet
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'It's been a joy working together. I've learned a lot, read the work of writers I hadn't previously heard of, and I’ve really enjoyed reading all of our different prompt and workshop poems too. There's a chapter in the Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver that speaks about the experience of writing workshops. It's been lovely experiencing one myself!'
Wieke Vink, poet
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'Kate’s Wise Women workshops have been both informative and inspiring, acting as a great introduction to a range of contemporary women poets from both the UK and North America. She is an excellent tutor, generous with her knowledge of poetry and always ready to provide positive encouragement and astute feedback.'
Luct Cotterill, poet