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So looking forward to catching up again with crime writer Liz Mistry, who 'credits her MA in Creative Writing from Leeds Trinity University with helping her find a way of using her writing to navigate her ongoing mental health struggles.' She is coming back to the MA, but this time as a successful author with 15 novels under her belt, a PhD (also from ) and lots of professional advice for our current MA cohort. We can't wait to hear what she has to say!

Liz Mistry – Liz Mistry Authors Liz Mistry Liz Mistry moved to West Yorkshire in the late 1980s. Her two gritty crime fiction police procedural novels set in Bradford – the DI Gus McGuire series and her DS Nikki Parekh series – embrace the city she describes as ‘Warm, Rich and Fearless’ whilst exploring the darknes...

Our annual anthology, edited by two PGs taking our MA in Creative Writing, with Oz Hardwick, our Prof of Creative Writing 🙂

The second of our requested workshops after the news spread of the DEFRA-funded project 'Everyone's a Seed': we love these workshops and the poems that people write in them.

Huge thanks to Alex and Alison from the RHS for arranging a wonderful workshop at the Nowell Mount Community Centre in Leeds yesterday. What a lovely group of people, with a lot of energy inspired, no doubt, by the beautiful spring weather. We’re looking forward to reading everything that came out of the session, but special thanks to Kim Hall for sending this response afterwards.

A poetry competition:


"The Montreal International Poetry Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. Enter your poem of 40 lines or fewer for a chance to win a cash prize of $20,000.
"The Montreal Prize celebrates the craft of the stand-alone poem as a work of art. The biennial competition, open to poets from around the world, is a not-for-profit initiative hosted by the Department of English at McGill University. All entries must be previously unpublished and simultaneous submissions are permitted. An international jury will select sixty-five finalists and the winner will be chosen by the final judge Natalie Diaz, whose many honours include a MacArthur Fellowship, Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship, and Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship. All finalists will be published online and included in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2026.
"Submission fees for first entries are $25 until the early bird deadline 1 May, and $28 after that until submissions close. Every additional poem is $20 at any time (all prices in Canadian dollars).
The final deadline is 15 May. We are looking forward to reading your work!
Submit at

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Announcing the new anthology call for submissions! open to anyone connected with Leeds Trinity University, as students, staff, or Wordspace, the Writers' Festival, or any other writing events connected with the University. Here are the details: https://www.facebook.com/share/17pLVW91U9/

LTU Power Anthology The 2026 anthology brought to you by Leeds Trinity University!
This year's anthology theme is: Power

LTU Power Anthology The 2026 anthology brought to you by Leeds Trinity University!
This year's anthology theme is: Power

Still open for submissions, deadline 15 November!

The workshops have been and gone, but we would welcome submissions up until 15 November.

A unique global digital game and exhibition that included Leeds Trinity University English and Creative Writing Prof Oz Hardwick, Dr Amina Alyal, PhD researcher Gill Connors, and Creative Writing MA alumnus William Conniston.

#leedstrinityuniversity #creativewriting #poetry #creativity | Leeds Trinity University Congratulations to our Creative Writing academics and students who are featured in the global art project TELEPHONE – a digital, creative reimagining of the children’s game of whispers, where a message is passed on via diverse art forms, including poetry, painting, music and film. 👏🙌 Now a...

People from took part in this ekphrastic game connecting 1,395 artists from across the world in a massive exhibition. Browse!

TELEPHONE TELEPHONE - An interactive art exhibition

Still places left on these FREE writing workshops.

Following the AFRICA4U awards evening, Dr Amina Alyal has kindly shared her experience on attending this brilliant event alongside Dr Celia Knight:

It was a great evening, run by AFRICA4U Association and Friends CIC, with input from Bradford4Better. The evening centred on awards for Africans and Caribbeans living in West Yorkshire. The recipients gave moving, inspiring speeches about their journeys, together with music, drama, and poetry, and stalls selling artefacts. We had the opportunity to talk about the Everyone’s a Seed Project, about Black in Plant Science’s involvement with it, and to invite people to attend the free writing workshops linked to the anthology, and/or to send in poems for our general call for submissions for the Everyone’s a Seed anthology. Full details on the attached flyer.


Here's the link to the Awards evening: AFRICA4U Awards 2025 - It's On In Bradford

Launch of the new Wordspace anthology!

The latest in the Defra-funded writing project with , Everyone's a Seed. .

Poetry Anthology Call for Submissions
Join us for FREE poetry writing workshops
Monday 13 October, 18:00 – 19:00 online
Thursday 16 October, 18:15– 19:45, Leeds Trinity University, Horsforth campus
Monday 20 October, 18:00 – 19:00 online
Please email [email protected] for further details.

You are welcome to attend the workshops and then submit poem(s), or to submit your poems without attending any workshops. Your poem(s) should be on the theme of human connection to plants (flowers, trees, vegetables), and may take a personal and/or ecological approach.

Your poem(s) will be considered for an anthology to be published by Yaffle Press, as part of the government-funded project Everyone’s a Seed.

Submission deadline: 15 November 2025
Send to: [email protected]
Length: up to 30 lines