Upcoming events & workshops
10 February - speaking at Bi+ the Way about Bi+ Lines
​
14 February - hosting Verve Poetry Festival's Friday Headline Event, ft. Anthony Joseph, Richard Scott and Dzifa Benson (Birmingham)
​
16 February - reading my commended poem at Verve Poetry Festival Competition event (Birmingham)
​
26 February - reading as part of Queer Poetry Collective's FLINTA* Poetry Night, fundraising for The Common Press (London)
​
27 February, 4 March, 8 March, 10 March - Lewisham Writes poetry workshops on community for Spread the Word - tickets are free! (London)
​
15 March - workshop on prose(,) poetry and the lyric essay for members of The Writing Squad only (London)
​
29 March - poetry workshop at Deptford Literature Festival (London)
Events & workshops
A workshop for Spread the Word's City of Stories Home programme in 2022. Photo: Suzi Corker for Spread the Word
Helen has performed at Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, the London Library LitFest, Durham Book Festival, Brainchild Festival, Gloucester Poetry Festival, Winchester Poetry Festival, WayWORD Festival, Poetics of Home Festival, Verve Poetry Festival, MAST Studios Southampton, Hackney Chinese Community Centre, the Hippodrome (Birmingham), National Centre for Writing; and hosted Dead [Women] Poets Society events at The Forum (Norwich), the National Poetry Library (London), The Poetry Café (London) and the Sylvia Plath Festival. She has run workshops for The Poetry Society, The Writing Squad, Spread the Word, Creative Future, Poetry Translation Centre and Poets for the Planet and can tailor workshops to a range of themes and age groups. You can find some of the resources she has created for young poets as The Poetry Society's Education Officer here.
​
In June and July 2021, she wrote on-the-spot portraits of visitors to RBG Kew Gardens as plants as part of their Secret World of Plants After Hours festival. Read some of the portraits here.
​
Helen has five years of experience editing poetry and prose as Young Poets Network editor at The Poetry Society and offers a paid written/Zoom feedback service on work. Get in touch for more information.