Poetry and Live performance
WOMAD festival Slam winner 2022
International Women's Day 2022 - photos by @lunahag.photography
Recent Spoken word poetry Wins and highlights!
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UK Slam Championships 2023 finalist.
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Locally Sourced Comedy and Spork 'Worst Poet Wins' Anti-Slam Winner 2023
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Spork Dead Poets Slam Winner 2022
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Spork Up! Supported Artist 2022
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WOMAD festival Slam Winner 2022
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Recently set up and host a Spokenword Poetry night called 'Speakease @ Rafikis', Ashburton, Devon. Insta @speakease.spokenwordpoetry.
Live Poetry Performance History (Selected)
UK Slam championships 2023
Worst poet wins - Anti Slam Exeter Phoenix 2023
Spork Up! Supported Artist showcase Phoenix Exeter Nov 2022
Spork Dead Poets Slam 2022
WOMAD festival performance and Slam winner July 2022
Sproutspoken Newquay June 2022
Deadbeats Plymouth May 2022
IWD- Grit Girl events Ashburton Arts March 2022
Spork Slam - Barrell House Totnes-Dec 2021
Second place
Open Collab Live Bristol-Dec 2021
OOO Beehive Slam Final-Dec 2021
Poetic Licence Sandford-Nov 2021
Cosmic Rhymes Plymouth-Oct 2021
Rainbow fish- Liv Torc - Sept 2021
Wonder Zoo- Plymouth- July 2021
Raise The Bar- Bristol- July 2021
Spork Slam - Exeter- July 2021
OOO Beehive Slam (Finalist!)- June 2021
BBC Upload- Bristol- Feb 2021
Hammer and Tongue -Hackney- Jan 2021
Taking the Mic - Exeter- (Regular) 2020-2021
AshArts- Ashburton- July 2020
Wonder Zoo - Plymouth- Nov 2020
Write Out Loud - Sale- Nov 2020
Bread and Roses- Plymouth- March 2020
Green Table - Dartington Hall- Dec 2019 (first ever!!!!!)
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Spork Slam, Exeter photo by @jorbein
Writing Workshops/Courses/Mentoring.
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Investing in my creativity and pursuing the development of my craft is super important and so I have been involved in the following writing workshops/courses/mentoring:
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Hot Poets Participation project with Liv Torc and Chris Redmond March/April 2022
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How to Write the Sh*t Away- Kat Francois
Weekly workshops from Sept 2020-until present day
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Mentoring with Rebecca Tantony - Began Feb 2022
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Outspoken Press- Anthony Anaxagorou
Summer 2020
Writing Poetic Narrative
Prompt, Write, Share
Getting your Poetry Published
Disruption, Syntax, Line breaks
Wonderzoo, Plymouth- photo by Calvin Bedford
Over the last few years I've mainly been concentrating on developing my skills as a performer and haven't pushed for publication so much, although I have recently completed my first collection, which is currently looking for a home.
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Published Poetry.
Hot Poets Sparks Anthology - collated by Liv Torc and Chris Redmond March 2023
Whoop Whoop Magazine May 2023
The British Library - Covid Collection Online Dec 2021
365 days of Covid Anthology- Sundays by the River Nov 2021
Despite Knowing -Addiction Anthology- Oct 2021
Haiflu - Liv Torc - Feb 2021
Nymphs and Thugs- Insta- Jan 2021
Irisi Magazine- Healing Issue- Aug 2020
Out of Nothing -Bath- May 2020
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IWD - Bread and Roses , Plymouth March 2020
Poetry in the pub -photo by @poeticlicenceevents
