Don't Get Bitter, Get Better

Carmina Masoliver is a poet from south London, and founder of She Grrrowls feminist arts nights. Her small chapbook was published by Nasty Little Press, and she recently published a She Grrrowls anthology with Burning Eye Books. She was long-listed for the Young Poet Laureate for London award in 2013, and the inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships in 2017. Alumni of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, she has featured at nights such as Bang Said the Gun, and festivals including Latitude, Bestival and Lovebox both as a collective and individually. She performed internationally whilst living abroad, in Singapore, and in Spain. In 2017, she programmed 40 acts for She Grrrowls across the whole run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in 2018 she showcased a segment at Women of the World Festival, Southbank. She has most recently been longlisted for the Out-Spoken Prize in Performance Poetry.@CarminaPoetry

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Feedback meetings for the group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/254625385081182/
Bring a few copies of poems so we can give each other feedback. I'll aim to confirm numbers the day before so you know how many copies to bring.
On the day:
Arrival between 6.00-6.30pm
Start time: 6.30pm
Finish time: 8.30pm (building closes)
There are a maximum 7 spaces.
Details about the group: 
A writing group where you are welcome to share your non-successes, in order to shed light on the fact that everyone faces rejection and disappointment and we don't need to suffer alone or compare ourselves with others.
 Remembering that "success" with anything is a combination of hard work and luck, and the only way to build yourself as a writer is to improve your craft and have a supportive network to help you get better. You can't count on a "lucky break", but you can put in the time and effort to develop. 
The main functions of this group are as follows: 
1. To share our own disappointment &amp; in turn to build each other up again from any knock-backs. 
2. To act as a platform for sharing and critiquing each other's work by uploading files to the group.
 3. To arrange to meet in person (those in London) for a monthly writing group with a focus on editing existing work. 
The rules: 
1. No comparing. No saying that anyone is undeserving of their success - this is not the place for that. 
2. Upload work in Word and provide an email address so that individuals can track changes and add comments to the document easily, and send back to the author.
3. Provide photocopies of any poems requiring feedback at monthly workshops.
4. Be respectful when giving feedback, making sure it's constructive.
5. When providing work for feedback, you can also say what you want to gain from it, parts you're unsure about, or even include the odd poem that you're actually happy with (just being clear that it doesn't require feedback), so we can get an idea of what you're aiming for with your work.

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