In this four week online workshop series by NTU ACWP, Faber poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Mary Jean Chan offers an Advanced Poetry Course with peer and facilitator critique of participants’ poems.
Mary Jean Chan (b. 1990) is the author of Flèche, published by Faber & Faber (2019). Flèche won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry and was named as a Book of the Year in The Guardian, The Irish Times and The White Review. In 2020, Flèche was shortlisted for multiple literary prizes, including the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. In 2018, Chan was selected as the winner of the Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. She was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes in the Best Single Poem category in 2017 and 2019, and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2019 for a collection by a poet under the age of 30, awarded by the Society of Authors. Her book reviews have appeared in The Guardian Review, with literary criticism published in The Journal of American Studies and The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. In Spring 2020, Chan served as guest co-editor with Will Harris at The Poetry Review. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan lives in London and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University.
Please note particiants are required to attend all the 4 workshops. The first begins on 16 Oct.
VENUE: Online
LINK: To be provided to registrants
EVENT WEBSITE: ACWP (for registration)
DATE AND TIME
16, 23, 30 Oct and 6 Nov 2021, 5pm–7pm, $100 / $40