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Academy Plus – Autumn 2025

Dates: 6 October – 1 December 2025
Duration: 9 weeks
Tutors: Ella Frears, Jack Underwood, Anthony Anaxagorou
Course fee: £400
One-to-ones: Optional, 30-minute, £50 each

The Academy Plus programme offers the chance to continue working with our tutors over a longer period at a less intensive pace. 

The course will run for 9 weeks (Mon 6 October – Mon 1 December 2025) with a two-hour online group workshop each Monday, 7-9pm UK and divided between your three tutors, with each tutor leading 3 weeks. As part of the course you’ll also have access to a dedicated materials Padlet board and will receive password-protected recordings of each session for your future reference.

Registration for the Academy Plus Autumn 2025 course is now open.

Ella Frears

Ella Frears a is a poet based in London. Her books Shine, Darling and Goodlord have been shortlisted for The Forward Prize, The T. S. Eliot Prize, and a Sky Arts Award. She’s a current RLF Fellow at the Courtauld and hosts chat and music show Tears for Frears on Soho Radio. 

Jack Underwood

Jack Underwood is a poet, writer and critic. He is author of Happiness (Faber 2015), Solo for Mascha Voice (Test Centre, 2018) and A Year in the New Life (Faber 2021). His debut work of non-fiction, NOT EVEN THIS, was published by Corsair in 2021, exploring parallels between quantum physics, black hole science, cyborgism, and the philosophies of language and knowledge and poetics, all through the lens of new parenthood. He has collaborated widely with composers and artists, and his work has been published internationally and in translation. He is co-presenter and curator of the Faber Poetry Podcast and is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, and is currently working on a collection of short fiction.

Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher. His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. His second collection, After the Formalities, was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry.

Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, publisher of Out-Spoken Press, and editor-in-chief of Propel Magazine. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow at the University of Roehampton. In 2023 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.