May Showcase

Featured poet, Caroline Stancer

Caroline Stancer has a Creative Writing MA from Nottingham Trent University, and gained a place on Writing East Midlands’ Mentoring Scheme with Helen Mort. She was longlisted for Primers 2020, the National Poetry Competition 2021, commended in Verve Festival’s Competition 2023 and shortlisted for Primers 2023. She has been published in Otherwise Engaged, Litter Magazine, Ink, Sweat and Tears, the Nine Arches Press Blog, Like Flyering for the Revolution: The VERVE Anthology of Protest Poems and Anthropocene. She has performed at Verve Poetry Festival, in a live stream for UNESCO City of Literature for World Poetry Day, at Nottingham Poetry Festival and many other events. She is studying for a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University and recently completed a novel. Caroline co-runs the poetry collective and podcast, Dandelions Poetry. Her poetry pamphlet Full Body Reclaim is published with Five Leaves Publications.

The evening will also feature 10 DIY Poets, plus open mic