Kate Potts: editing, teaching, mentoring and coaching

05/08/2025

A monthly, in-person workshop focusing on the poetry of women. Starts this September.

Wise Women is a small monthly workshop focusing on the poetry of women and non-binary people. Be inspired by skiful and powerful poets, and get feedback on your work in a nurturing group space.

05/08/2025

A new in-person life writing course for Dialect Writers, starting in September in Stroud. Almost sold out!
https://www.dialect.org.uk/coursesworkshops/writing-your-life-i

05/08/2025

'I felt an eerie, off-kilter tightness in my chest and a sense of closing in on myself. It was strangely physical, as if I were bracing myself against someone else’s fists.' June's Substack post, on publication anxiety.

Kate Potts discusses the anxiety that comes with publishing a new book.

08/07/2024

'Letting your own words speak on the page often seems like the least important thing on a long list of priorities.'

Read the first of my Speak Up! substack pieces - on finding time to write when you have lots of conflicting demands and responsibilities.

Welcome to Speak Up!, a newsletter about creative writing and everyday life. In these posts I focus on the messy realities and difficulties, and also the joys, of building and maintaining a creative writing practice amid conflicting demands and responsibilities, including caregiving. How can we find...

13/03/2024

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