Delighted to announce I will be joining the team at Oxford Writers’s House as Director for the 2017-2018 academic year. Now in their third year of operations, OWH play a key role in the Oxford literary scene connecting world-class writers with the local community. I’m especially proud to have been involved with the inaugural Peregrine Prize, a competition for young writers based in Oxfordshire and look forward to the awards ceremony at Rhodes House on Saturday 15th July.

I’m delighted to be presenting prizes for the Alliance Manchester Business School on Wednesday 12th July with this lovely bunch of poets. It’s been a real pleasure to be part of the initiative, going into local schools to encourage young women to write poetry and we’ve had some fantastic entries!

On Thursday 29th June I will be presenting a paper based on my latest poetry project at the John Rylands Research Institute’s 2017 conference ‘Archival Afterlives: Postwar Poetry in English’. I will be speaking about the problems facing a writer when engaging with a family archive, conflict between narrative and lyric modes and using archive as a poetic form as a possible solution.

I’m delighted to announce my tenure as writer-in-residence at Xavarian College, Manchester. I’ve loved working with students on their creative writing and can’t wait to get stuck into more sessions!