Pascale Petit has extensive experience as a tutor and many of her students have gone on to win prizes and publish first collections.  As a writing tutor she aims to help poets develop and refresh their own voice and to write more imaginatively.

A co-founding tutor of The Poetry School, Pascale co-edited its first anthology, Tying the Song and has taught three courses for the School on getting a first collection published.  She has tutored for Oxford University, the Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd, and is a mentor for Spread the Word’s The Complete Works project. She was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art 2011-12 and teaches creative writing courses in the galleries at Tate Modern. She edited Poetry London for fifteen years and so can give an editor’s view of the publishing process.

Born in Paris, Pascale was originally an artist and trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art. She has published five poetry collections including What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo. Three of her books were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and were ‘books of the year’ in The Times Literary Supplement, Independent and Observer. What the Water Gave Me, published in the UK by Seren (2010) and in the US by Black Lawrence Press (2011), was also shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. Pascale was selected as one of the Next Generation Poets in 2004, has been shortlisted for a Forward Prize and won numerous awards, including three from Arts Council England. Her poems have been broadcast on BBC radio, published in many countries including Australia and the US, and translated into eighteen languages.

For further information, visit Pascale’s website www.pascalepetit.co.uk

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