Sign up for exclusive one-on-one sessions with our Writer On The Bloc, Joelle Taylor. In these free bookable sessions you’ll be able to get feedback on some of your work, discuss creative ideas and strategies with Joelle and get some valuable one-on-one guidance from an award-winning writer.

Submission Guidelines

Joelle will be reading:

• Prose/ Essay: 2000 words max extracts/ full pieces

• Poetry: 40 lines

• Ideas (Projects/ Shows): a half page outline of the creative idea you would like to work through, along with a central question we can address.

Please send work in either Word or PDF format and have your work ready to send as soon as possible. Instructions will be sent to you on completion of your Eventbrite order. If you're unable to send your work to us by 3pm the day BEFORE your allotted session, you may be asked to reschedule if other slots are available, or may lose out if no other slots are available. Sessions are first come, first served and you may sign up only once for a One-on-One per writer.

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and editor who has recently completed a world tour with her latest collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She is widely anthologised, the author of 3 full poetry collections and 3 plays and is currently completing her debut book of short stories The Night Alphabet. Her new collection CUNTO will be published in June 2021. She founded the UK’s national youth slam championships SLAMbassadors in 2001, remaining its Artistic Director until 2018. She is the host and co-curator of Out-Spoken, a poetry and music club, currently resident at the Southbank Centre, and the editor of Out-Spoken Press. Her work was recently featured in the arts documentary Butch on Radio 4.

This has been made possible with support from The National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund, Liverpool City Region Covid-19 Emergency Funding and The Steve Morgan Foundation.