Category: Writing resources
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Memory-gathering by Emily Downes
New recruit and Spoken Word Boot Camp graduate Emily Downes reflects on creating pop-up poetry with the TWP team at two special events this year… In summer 2025, Hartlepool Borough Council offered Tees Women Poets the use of the beach huts in Seaton Carew for creative activities, and I was lucky enough to be involved.…
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Messages from a Bottle
Poets Eithne Longstaff and Ann Cuthbert have collaborated on a renga, a call-and-response form that engages two or more poets in a collaborative journey of imagery and associations threaded together in couplets and haiku. ‘Messages’ was made over a number of weeks, by email, to reflect the Bottle of Notes associations of messages sent and…
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Formal introductions
What makes a poem a poem? Is it about knowing when to rhyme, and how many feet to a line, and recognising a sonnet when it slaps you in the face? Last week a bunch of us had some fun with the oddest, made-up poetry forms we could find – and then we made up…
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AI Call to Action: Empowering Creatives to Tackle Algorithmic Bias and Shape a Sustainable Future
As creatives, writers and visionaries, we hold a unique power to shape the future of technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new creative tools, but it also presents profound challenges – particularly with algorithmic bias, where AI systems reflect and amplify biases already present in society and within ourselves.
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Writing Resistance
It’s been a turbulent time for so many communities this summer as rioting spread from the Southport tragedy, and Teesside was targeted as an early flashpoint. After checking in with individuals in our TWP family who we knew to be particularly vulnerable, we were left with that frantic feeling inside – what can we do?…
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Behind the scenes at a bookshop residency…
Stockton was buzzing, or maybe growling, about Home Secretary James Cleverley MP, and his very public comment about Stockton being a sh*thole.
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