Poetry Editing and Mentoring – please drop Susie a line (see Contact) if you’d like help with editing or exploring how to develop your current poetry work.
Exploring writing long poems about rivers, while being disabled, supported by the Arts Council, 2025-2026. Please get in touch to hear more or collaborate.
Reading with Pascal Pettit and Fran Lock, 26th April, 5.30pm, Wild and Weird: Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival Pascal Pettit: ‘Rising superstar Susie Wilson’.
Sub Club for Manchester Poetry Library: 2nd April, 7th May, 11th June. Come to chat through where the best homes for your poems might be. Free to attend but book here (ask me for zoom if needed for access): Sub Club with Susie Wilson, 02 Apr – 11 Jun 2025 | Manchester Metropolitan University OFTEN SOLD OUT, BUT CONTACT SUSIE FOR EXTRA PLACES. We read and discuss samples from currently open journals and magazines in the Library. Editors’ inside track tips each month.
Reading with Gayathiri Thanganatam and and Jamie Hale, 29th March, 6.30pm ONLINE (free to attend): Festival Edition: CRIPtic x Spread the Word Salon Tickets, Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite
Sound in Poetry Workshop Intense Fascination – Beyond The Spectrum ONLINE 29th March 2pm, £15/10 for the day (all events recorded to attend at your pace).
Sheffield Launch of Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed, reading with Helen Mort, who is launching her erasure poetry pamphlet Dad vs Dad (also out now with Verve Poetry Press) and Fiona Hutchings: https://gencem.org/event/winters-edge-poetry-double-launch-event-with-helen-mort-susie-wilson-fiona-hutchings/.
Twoomph – Headlining, 28th November 2024, 6.30-8pm online. Kate Fox: ‘You’re that really good poet!’ Click here to book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twoomph-ft-susie-wilson-tickets-1057990330559
Online Launch of Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed, reading with other Verve Poets, Ellen McAteer and Jennifer Wong, 7pm 26th November 2024: Susie Wilson, Ellen McAteer, Jennifer Wong Tickets, Tue 26 Nov 2024 at 19:00 | Eventbrite
Women of Words – Headlining, 6th November 2024, 2-4pm, Hull Central Library. Come along to hear from Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed and maybe, if you’re lucky, Susan, High Priestess of Apollo (fool character). See https://bit.ly/3NpNSqj
Putting Good Pamphlets Together – a workshop for anyone considering entering the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 Unpublished Pamphlet category, or anyone currently working on putting a pamphlet together, looking for some help on how to make it fly. 6.30-8pm 9th October 2024, hosted online by Spread The Word. Facilitated by Susie. Click here to find out more and book: Putting Good Pamphlets Together for the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 Tickets, Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/putting-good-pamphlets-together-for-the-disabled-poets-prize-2025-tickets-1004354329837
City of Sound – poem commissioned for the Stella Jockel Young Composers’ Competition launched 8th October 2024. To be performed March 2025. Click here to read and hear the poem or find out more about the competition: City of Sound by Susie Wilson ©2024 – Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Dead Cat Bounce – come along to an evening of avant guard performance by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Waste Paper Opera at Soft Ground, Sheffield (part of the No Bounds Festival) on 12th October at 7.30pm: Dead Cat Bounce performance (welcometosheffield.co.uk) Dead Cat Bounce – Arts Catalyst
Poetry London Online – short set, open mic subscriber slots available, 3rd October 2024 7-8pm. NB POSTPONED
Twoomph Spotlight – catch Susie supporting the wonderful headlining Polly Atkin online at Tees Women Poets, open mic slots available. Click here to book: TWOOMPH! ft. Polly Atkin Tickets, Thu 26 Sep 2024 at 18:30 | Eventbrite
Go To The Poets with The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere – poems on the theme of water, with Katrina Naomi, on 18th September 2024, 7.30pm.