Rebecca Swift Foundation Seeks New Chair and Trustees| Rebecca Swift Foundation
The Rebecca Swift Foundation is recruiting for a new Chair and two new Trustees to support our national work advocating for and championing UK-based women poets. The Rebecca Swift Foundation is the only UK-based charity to focus on the advancing the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets. We are currently one year into a two-year funded programme for women ...| Rebecca Swift Foundation
The Rebecca Swift Foundation will join forces with Fly on the Wall Press to publish an anthology of women poets in the UK.| Rebecca Swift Foundation
I found myself in conversation with another editor recently and realised that despite being a published poet herself, she didn’t send work out to magazines. I asked why. ‘Well, apart from the one I edit, none of them are any good.’ We both laughed at this and I managed to not indignantly exclaim Hold on, what about PBLJ?! It was ... The post Beyond Submissions by Naush Sabah appeared first on Rebecca Swift Foundation.| Rebecca Swift Foundation
I’m often asked about the Purpose of Poetry. Usually, I’m armed with a scattering of stock answers, duty bound to extoll its virtues. I have a vested interest, of course; an irrational desire to account for my professional choices. But in times like these, its a question I’m taking more seriously. A pandemic. A war. A volatile government. Bills that ... The post In Search of Spring: Can Poetry Change the World? by Vanessa Kisuule appeared first on Rebecca Swift Foundation.| Rebecca Swift Foundation
Poets Prerana Kumar, Dillon Jaxx and Jennifer Lee Tsai have been announced as the winners of the 2022 Women Poets’ Prize at the inaugural one-day Women Poets’ Festival at the National Centre for Writing, Norwich. The biennial prize, founded by the Rebecca Swift Foundation and supported by FMcM, is awarded to three women writers who each receive a holistic package ... The post Winners announced for the 2022 Women Poets’ Prize appeared first on Rebecca Swift Foundation.| Rebecca Swift Foundation
Carmen Marcus, Kuli Kohli and Tolu Agbelusi join RSF to create regional hubs for women poets in Newcastle, Wolverhampton and London| Rebecca Swift Foundation
Rebecca Swift Foundation welcomes Degna Stone| Rebecca Swift Foundation
The Rebecca Swift Foundation is running a crowdfunding campaign to raise vital funds so that we can continue to serve our growing community of women poets.| Rebecca Swift Foundation
Judges Penelope Shuttle, Abi Palmer, and Nikita Gill have selected the “vital, varied and exciting” poets shortlisted for the third iteration of our biennial Prize.| Rebecca Swift Foundation
We're delighted to announce the thirty poets who make up our 2022 longlist for the Women Poets' Prize| Rebecca Swift Foundation