Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 11th Sep, 2025
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location
WASPS Studios Inverness, Inverness, , IV2 3JP
Poet Roger Robinson will lead the Young Writers’ Café for young people in Inverness and surrounding areas in September.
This workshop will introduce you to the prosepoem and will take a look at the movements and histories of modern and contemporary prose poetry. There is also a creative component to this workshop, where we will write prose poems that will reflect and interrogate these movements in prose poetry. This workshop will suit beginners and advance alike or writers looking for new rhythms, approaches and forms to explore in their work.
No need for experience, just bring along a playful mind and pen and paper! Drinks and snacks provided.
Please note, this workshop is free but but you do need to secure your place by booking below. By booking, you confirm that you are a young writer aged 14-24, and based in Scotland. For enquiries, contact youngwriters@moniackmhor.org.uk.
About the author
Roger Robinson is the critically acclaimed author of A Portable Paradise, a stirring collection which won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2019 & 2020 respectively. His most recent collection for Home Is Not A Place, published by William Collins, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards in 2022. His book The Butterfly Hotel was shortlisted for the 2014 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, The Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize & was highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize in 2013 & his 2nd poetry collection, Suckle, won the Peoples Book Prize in 2010. He has been chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon.