Writing Workshop with Joelle Taylor

Award-winning poet Joelle Taylor leads a writing workshop exploring worldbuilding and narrative in poetry and beyond.

Poet, playwright and author Joelle Taylor, whose collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize, leads a hands-on writing workshop at The Poly. The session examines prospects for worldbuilding and narrative in poetry and beyond, running from 10.30am to 1.30pm. Taylor's work centres queer, butch and othered narratives across genre and form, and her recent collection Maryville is longlisted for the 2026 Forward Prize.