Join Mary Jean Chan, author of award-winning poetry collection Flèche (Faber, 2019) and forthcoming collection Bright Fear, as they share how to craft and develop your poetry, and how to bring your poems together in a cohesive collection.
They will talk through what it's like to edit a poem, and how to stay inspired with your writing. Through advice, tips and practical exercises, you will come away with a greater understanding of how to keep going as a poet.
Mary Jean will also offer their insight into the process of getting a collection of poetry published, and how writers might work towards this.
15 minutes will be reserved for a Q&A at the end of the masterclass.
This masterclass will be online, video platform to be confirmed. It will also be recorded so if you are unable to attend live, you'll be able to catch-up and access the recording for up to two weeks.
Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche, published by Faber & Faber (2019) and Faber USA (2020). Flèche won the Costa Book Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. An Italian translation of Flèche by Giorgia Sensi is forthcoming from Interno Poesia in 2023. Chan's second collection, Bright Fear, is forthcoming from Faber in August 2023.
Chan won the 2018 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2017 and 2019, receiving an Eric Gregory Award in 2019. Their poetry has been featured in or is forthcoming from The New Republic, The New Statesman, Granta, The Poetry Review and The London Review of Books. Chan has written for The Review of English Studies, The Journal of American Studies and The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, with their reviews appearing regularly in The Guardian. Chan was guest co-editor with Will Harris at The Poetry Review in Spring 2020, and co-edited the anthology 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022) with Andrew McMillan.
A 2022 Visiting Writer at the NTU Asia Creative Writing Programme in Singapore, Chan serves as a tenured Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and tutors on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. Chan is a judge for the 2023 Booker Prize, and will be a 2023 Hawthornden Fellow at Casa Ecco in Italy. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan currently lives in Oxford.
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