March 9th 6.15 - 7.30 pm

Cost : £5 or Free if you have booked on Profanity Printing Session

Delighted to host a poetry Sharing with Degna Stone & Pippa Little for International Women’s Day

Degna Stone is a poet and poetry editor based in northeast England. They are a contributing editor at The Rialto and a co-founder of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine. They received a Northern Writers' Award for poetry in 2015 and a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2019. Their debut full-length collection, Proof of Life on Earth, is available from Nine Arches Press.

Their poetry also appears in Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets (Bloodaxe), Writing Motherhood (Seren), Urban Myths and Legends (The Emma Press), Filigree (Peepal Tree Press), More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry (Canongate Books), and elsewhere.

Pippa Little's third collection Time Begins to Hurt came out from Arc last year. Her work is widely published and has won national and international awards. From Scotland originally,  she's lived in Northumberland for over 30 years and Foray, from Biscuit Press, tells the stories of the Border Reivers through women's voices. She is a New Writing North award winner, has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University  and now teaches poetry for the Faber Academy.