transforming words ideas can change the world

An online workshop to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Facilitator: Jenny Mitchell, an award-winning writer with three poetry collections Join us for an online poetry workshop to examine how words can transform our sense of identity in a challenging world. The workshop will be relaxed, non-judgemental and challenge you to…

Poetry and Transformation

poetry and transformation flat 1200

Event Date:

An online workshop to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Facilitator: Jenny Mitchell, an award-winning writer with three poetry collections

Join us for an online poetry workshop to examine how words can transform our sense of identity in a challenging world.

  • What labels do we carry and how can poetry help us cast these aside?
  • Can we do this by writing with hope about an imagined future?
  • How we have been limited and how can change benefit our communities?

The workshop will be relaxed, non-judgemental and challenge you to write in new ways.

Download the TTWF Poetry Workshop Flyer March 2026


Jenny Mitchell

Event Facilitator

jenny mitchell

Jenny is an award-winning writer with three poetry collections. The debut, Her Lost Language, was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize; her second collection, Map of a Plantation, won the Poetry Awards and is on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent collection, Resurrection of a Black Man, contains three prize-winning poems, and was featured on the US blog Poetry Unbound. She has had residencies with the British Library, Sussex University and Cork City Council Libraires. She’s recently been made a Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.