Lisa Blackwell

The Papers School is running six session poetry residency. Here is something for the record from sessions one, two and three. A project designed for experienced poets working at an advanced level to support participants in the development of a collection intended for publication. 🦢Session one: - Let Magpies Decide? On Hera Lindsay Bird, Impulse and the Self by Wendy Allen - The Curiosity Cabinet: Poetry as Arrangement by Emily Freeman 🦢Session two: - The Cringe Clinic by Leatrice - The Places Poems Go by Meesha Williams 🦢Session three: - Memorabilia & Object by Jinhao Xie - Ekphrastic & Oneiric by Rupa Latif Rupa 📓Writers in residence include: @po.emmy_ @meesha_williams Holly Abrahamson Thembe Mvula Wendy Allen @xie.jin.hao @lisablackwellwrite @ilaughingman @jacobburgessrollo @ursula.writes @leatrice_write Eleanor Wilders @johannaboettiger

I have a short fiction in the beautifully produced Issue 9 of @thealephreview . My first international publication. It really is gorgeous and the artwork featured fantastic. Many thanks to @mina.malik_ for including my work.

Chapbook | send : flower | A Renga 連歌 by Five Poets THEMBE MVULA is a South African writer and poet; an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Barbican Young Poets and the inaugural Obsidian Foundation retreat. She self-published her debut pamphlet, We that Wither Beneath, in 2019. @themberain LISA BLACKWELL is a writer and performer. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in journals, anthologies and online, and her first prose poetry chapbook, ‘How it will happen’, was the Three Trees Portfolio Award winner 2022 (published by Maytree Press) @lisablackwellwrite TINA JUUL MØLLER is a Copenhagen-based poet, learner, raging feminist. @tinajuulmoeller HANNAH LEDLIE is an Edinburgh-born, Manchester-based writer. Her work has appeared in Ambit, Gutter, Magma, Butcher’s Dog, and New Writing Scotland.’ @hannahledlie RUPA WOOD is a multi-disciplinary researcher exploring the philosophy of miracles and commonplace magic. She is published by various journals and anthologies including Hourglass: The Ash Anthology by The Oxford Poetry Society. rupawood.com Alternating stanzas or ku (句), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 morae are linked in succession by a multiple of poets. The exchange was made over one month, in April of 2025. The order of writing began: Thembe Mvula 5-7-5, Lisa Blackwell 7-7, Tina Juul Møller 5-7-5, Hannah Ledlie 7-7, Rupa Wood 5-7-5. Available to read here: /pub/thevanitypapers/p/chapbook-send-flower-a-renga-by-five?r=4s0tic&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

Honoured to have a poem included in this absolutely gorgeous publication @thepomegranatelondon Issue 9. Thank you Zerlina, it was a pleasure to work with you. #poetry #poetrycommunity

Wonderful evening of poetry friends at the Bouda Gallery in Notting Hill Gate on Thursday. Many thanks to @inparentheses_ for organising. #poetry

My short story, 'Knickerbocker Glory', has been published on The Lonely Crowd website, as their short story of the month. Many thanks to editor of @thelonelycrowdpress John Lavin and Matthew David Scott. /2025/08/10/short-story-of-the-month-august-knickerbocker-glory-by-lisa-blackwell/

Wonderful book launch Thursday evening of @pialectics ' essential and instant classic 'Cosgrovia' at Bouda Gallery. Available from @steelincisors Great performances from: SJ Fowler @tyrrellknot @martybabytram Cameron Wade @stephensunderland8212 @beverlyfrydman and the man of the hour xxx

It was amazing to be a small part of this dance performance at @punchdrunkint at the beginning of the month. Thanks to them, choreographer @tanztheater_adrian_look @acostadancefoundation and my amazing dance partner @chrislordpix Also loved looking all suited and booted in my shirt and tie!

Thanks to everyone that came along to a wonderful evening of poetry and performance for the @european.poetry.festival Austria night on Thursday, at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Thanks to poet SJ Fowler for organising the festival and @acf_london for being such wonderful hosts, and poet @melhan for being such a brilliant collaborator. It really was a magical evening.

I have some words in this wonderful #bathflashfiction anthology. Thank you to Jude Higgins and all the award judges for putting it together. #flashfiction

Celebrating all things poetry and much, much more, the @european.poetry.festival returns! With over 100 poets participating from across the world, in venues across London, Norwich and Liverpool, from June 18th to July 6th. It's free to come along, but you might need to book some venues. I'll be performing new work with the wonderful @melhan at the Austrian Cultural Forum on Thursday 26th June. Can't wait. Deets: /2025 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

Had a wonderful time at the magical @wiltonsmusichall with this talented bunch on Friday. All woman cast, reading the hilarious work of Mark Ravenhill. All for a great cause. Raising money for nia, fighting to end violence against women and girls. Thanks to Mark for being such an inspirational writer/director, and @runatitshouting and @wiltonsmusichall for putting this mammoth project together.