Out-Spoken Academy: Spring 2024
Applications OPEN to 21April 2024
We’re pleased to share the details of our Out-Spoken Academy online poetry courses for this Spring Term:
The Spring 2024 term of our standard six-week Academy Course will run from Monday Monday 6 May – Friday 14 June 2024, with tutors Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Jack Underwood and Anthony Anaxagorou. We are happy to be able to offer two fully-funded bursary places on this course.
Our four-week Academy Mini Course, running from Tuesday 7 May – Thursday 30 May 2024, will be led by tutors John McCullough and Fran Lock.
Applications are are open until midnight UK Sunday 21 April 2024. Find out more about the Courses, and how to apply, below:
Academy Course
with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Jack Underwood & Anthony Anaxagorou
Our six-week intensive online poetry course, with tutors Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Jack Underwood and Anthony Anaxagorou.
Dates: 6 May – 14 June 2024
Classes: Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 7-9pm UK
Tutorials: 30 minute scheduled one-to-one tutorial each week
Academy Mini :
with John McCullough & Fran Lock
Our four-week online Academy Mini course is back! Learn from tutors John McCullough and Fran Lock over a focused four-week course, with two-hour workshops twice weekly and an individual tutorial each week.
Dates: 7–30 May 2024
Classes: Tuesday & Thursday, 7-9pm UK
Tutorials: 30 minute scheduled one-to-one tutorial each week
What is Out-Spoken Academy?
Offering intensive poetry courses, taught by esteemed poets, taught online in the evenings, Out-Spoken Academy is the perfect opportunity for committed poets to work closely with award-winning tutors in a focused, supportive environment and take their poetry practice to the next stage. We offer our standard Academy Course, with three tutors over six weeks, and our Academy Mini course, where you’ll be taught by two tutors over the course of four weeks.
At the heart of all our courses are the high level of active teaching hours you’ll receive, with two-hour workshops twice a week and individual weekly tutorials, all delivered online. Workshop-based teaching and the high level of contact time means you'll receive plenty of feedback and have the opportunity to connect with your tutors and fellow students.
On both our standard and mini courses you’ll benefit from the varied perspectives and poetics of our tutors, and on the standard course you’ll have a dedicated weekly opportunity to share and feedback on poems in a peer-to-peer environment – in addition to the dedicated online chat space provided.
Our course tutors have tailored integrated course syllabuses to help you develop your practice from first draft to final poems. Throughout the course, tutors will rotate each week, allowing you to benefit from their individual expertise and highly acclaimed perspectives.
If you feel ready to develop your voice and craft through a period of sustained focus with some of the country’s most lauded poets and educators, then apply now.
“One of the best writing programs I’ve been a part of. Moves beyond the classic model of generative response and highlights the structural elements needed to turn in an image or metaphor, asks why we take these steps in the first place. I owe a lot to it.”