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Women’s Poetry Workshop

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Last year, the survey and feedback from our Annual Women’s Poetry Competition delegates shared a resounding ‘Yes’ in response to questions on providing some writing support for women and girls.

You’ve askef for this and we’ve heard you. And so, we will be holding a writing workshop focused on poetry for women and girls.

Here are the details:

Event Description and How to Join Us

Inspire your creativity, self-expression, and connection through the power of words. Join us for a special poetry writing workshop for women.

This workshop is a gentle, supportive space for women from all backgrounds to explore personal stories, celebrate identity, and build confidence through poetry.

Whether you’re completely new to writing or already keep a notebook of poems, you’re warmly welcome. As we celebrate Black History Month, we want to connect with our artistic selves through poetry. Join us and have fun.

Date: Saturday 1st November 2025
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Venue: Curve Theatre, Rehearsal Room 5 (RR5), Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1SB.
Ticket Price: Adults £10 per person – Under 16 free.

Prior booking is required.

Tickets can now be purchased via this link https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/KEK3AAKEDVBCU

Please register by email at: editor.sanroopublishing@gmail.com
or book via Curve Theatre.

Join us afterwards for the second part of the Women’s Poetry Competition – Free entry.

Women’s Poetry Competition 2025

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You’re invited to take part in the Annual Women’s Poetry Competition in celebration of the poetic voice of Black Women in recognition of Black History Month.
This year, the title of the competition is “Women Standing Firm in Power and Pride”.

Submissions are invited for the competition.

Submission & Competition Rules:
To submit, your poem should:

  • Include the title, the Author’s name, and contact details at the end.
  • Arrive no later that the closing date: Saturday, 11th October 2025, at midnight.
  • Submit your poem by email to: editor.sanroopublishing@gmail.com
  • Submissions must be in a Word document format only. Do not submit within an email or pdf format.
  • Shortlisted Authors will be invited to read their poems at our Women’s Poetry
    Competition Presentation event which will take place on:
    Date: Saturday 1 November 2024
    Venue: the Curve Theatre, RR5, Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1SB
    Time: 1 pm – 3 pm – This is a FREE event.
    Those shortlisted Those shortlisted are expected to attend and read their work at the
    presentation, as scoring will be based on how your poem reads on the page as
    well as in spoken-word.
  • This competition is open to women and girls 11+.

Women’s Poetry Workshop

Celebrating the voices of Black Women through poetry.

Event Description and How to Join Us

Inspire your creativity, self-expression, and connection through the power of words. Join us for a special poetry writing workshop for women.

This workshop is a gentle, supportive space for women from all backgrounds to explore personal stories, celebrate identity, and build confidence through poetry.

Whether you’re completely new to writing or already keep a notebook of poems, you’re warmly welcome. As we celebrate Black History Month, we want to connect with our artistic selves through poetry. Join us and have fun.

Date: Saturday 1st November 2025
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Venue: Curve Theatre, Rehearsal Room 5 (RR5), Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1SB.
Ticket Price: Adults £10 per person – Under 16 free.

Prior booking is required. Please register by email at: editor.sanroopublishing@gmail.com
or book via Curve Theatre.

Personal 30 Day Writing Challenge

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We can all find ourselves a little out of the writing loop at times.  As much as we love writing, the busyness of life can at times take precedence and we loose the time and get out of the practise we once had of regularly writing. 

This is where I’ve found myself now, to be honest, so I’ve decided to do something about it.   And wondering if you might want to join me. 

I will add, that this is not a competition and you won’t get any prizes for doing this challenge with me.  But you will get, and this is what I’m working to achieve, is back into the practise of writing something each day.  Back into the flow of doing what you love doing. 

I have already put a post up on our facebook page ‘Call To Write’ .  You can view it here.  https://www.facebook.com/pg/acalltowrite/posts/?ref=page_internal

We will be using our Facebook page to comment and encourage each other each day. 

As I’ve mentioned on that post, you don’t have to share what you write each day, only if you want to.  It’s just about writing something each day.  It may just be  a paragraph or a quote.  It may be that you end up writing something more lengthy.  That doesn’t matter. What does matter is that we write something each day.

So, are you going to join me?  I believe writing is not about perfection, it’s about expression.  And that’s what we here at SanRoo are about encouraging you and ourselves to do.

If your answer is yes, just let me know in the comment box below and join us each day by adding something on the Call To Write Facebook page to share your experience as you progress on writing something each day in our Personal 30 Writing Challenge.

It doesn’t matter what time of day you write something, just as long as it’s before midnight.  If you can also comment on the page before midnight each day, that would be good too. 

Who’s in?  We start today.