Join our Quay Words Autumn writer-in-residence Fathima Zahra for this afternoon poetry workshop, tracing your personal journey through place and memory. About the writer Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet, performer and facilitator based in London. Her poems have won the Bridport Prize, Wells Fest Young Poets Prize and the Asia House Poetry Slam. She…

Haha, Peculiar and Everything Else: The Stories of Comics In the days leading up to Thought Bubble Comic Con, we are thrilled at Quay Words to be linking up with our friends at Gnash Comics to host a live panel discussion on the impact of comics on literature, art and popular culture! Together, our panel will…

Update – The in-person event is now sold out, but tickets for the YouTube livestream are available via the booking link. Join us for an evening of poetry inspired by peatlands, exploring the delicate fronds of human and ecological narratives emerging from the elusive landscapes of bogs. An outstanding line up of poets will draw…

We’re pleased to host the Exeter Poetry Editing Stanza for in person meetings at Quay Words during our seasons. The sessions are led by local poet Sarah Acton and are a chance to bring poems you’re working on along for peer feedback. For every session each poet brings along one poem for critique (with 6-8…

This October we welcome Joelle Taylor to the Custom House, for a reading from her debut novel The Night Alphabet followed by a Q&A. ‘The Night Alphabet is a glorious jewel of a novel, rich with language and story, that glows in your mind’s eye long after you have set it down. Taylor manages to combine…

At the heart of all creativity is risk and play – Joelle Taylor How risky is the business of writing poetry? Join us on National Poetry Day as we host four poets at different stages in their poetry careers as they explore the risks they take, and sometimes don’t take, in their poetry. Join them…

This event is now fully booked but we are pleased to be able to offer you to option to stream it online via YouTube (pay what you can). Book now to receive a link that will go live at 6.30pm on Wednesday 11th September. Book your livestream ticket → We are thrilled to be joined…

Saturday 27th– Sunday 28th July, 11am-5pm The Poetry Machine: free poems created in conversation with you! Poet Beth Calverley will be joining us with her magical Poetry Machine. Beth will ask you some gentle questions and weave your words into a typewritten poem to take away with you. Just follow the clatter of her vintage…

We’re pleased to host the Exeter Poetry Editing Stanza for in person meetings at Quay Words during our seasons. The sessions are led by local poet Sarah Acton and are a chance to bring poems you’re working on along for peer feedback. For every session each poet brings along one poem for critique (with 6-8…

Tuesday 16th July 6-8pm / Thursday 18th July 6-8pm Join Sarah at dusk for a creative writing and walking workshop. We will explore the theme of bodies of water and the vessel of the body as part of individual and communal writing practice. We will get curious about the physicality of composition with our walking…