Meet our festival poets as they share their work.
Host Carole Bromley is joined by our four festival poets – Kate Wakeling, Maria Ferguson, Emma Conally-Barklem, and Monika Radojevic – to discuss their writing and influences.
It’s also a chance to hear their work, with poetry for children and adults spanning themes of childhood, memoir, and motherhood.
This event is part of our 2024 Brontë Festival of Women's Writing. Find out more about the festival here.
Date: Sunday 22 September, 11:30am - 1:00pm
Tickets: £7 (under 12s free)
Location: The Old School Room, Haworth
Suggested age: 12+
This event will be livestreamed and recorded for our digital festival attendees. Find out more about attending the festival online here.
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Host Carole Bromley is a York-based poet who writes for both children and adults. Her children’s poems have been published widely in magazines in the UK and the US, including Northern Gravy, Tyger, Tyger, The Toy, Little Thoughts Press, Paperbound, Paper Lanterns, and Dirigible Balloon, as well as in anthologies from MacMillan, Emma Press, and Nosy Crow. She won the Caterpillar Prize in 2022.
Carole has three collections from Smith/Doorstop, including a children’s collection, Blast Off! Her most recent adult book is The Peregrine Falcons of York Minster (Valley Press 2020). Carole runs children’s poetry workshops and in October will be tutoring a course on Writing Poems for Children at the Garsdale Retreat.