Notts Poetry Presents: What My Home Town Means To Me Poetry Workshop

Notts Poetry are running a poetry workshop at the Usher Gallery on Saturday 31 October, from 1:30 to 3:30pm. The session is built around the question of what home means to you, and it's part of a wider regional project they're leading across the East Midlands. The whole thing is about how people feel about the places they call home, and how those places have changed over the last ten years.

One of the best things about it is that you don't have to be a poet to get involved. They're asking for responses in whatever way suits you: a poem, a short story of up to 300 words, photography, or artwork. If you've got a photo of a street that's changed, or a memory of a place that doesn't look the same anymore, that's exactly the kind of thing they're after. You can work with words or images, so it's as much for the photographers and artists as it is for the writers.

What you make doesn't just stay in the room, either. The project is going to end up in a series of county pamphlets and a broader collection about life in the East Midlands, with publication planned for Spring 2027. So if you've ever wanted to see your work in print alongside other people's accounts of the region, this is a straightforward way to get it there.

The workshop is free to attend, and it runs from 1:30 to 3:30pm at the Usher Gallery in Lincoln on Saturday 31 October.