News – Sept 2026

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I’m delighted to have been invited to co-tutor another 5-day Arvon residential writing course 18-23 Jan 2027! The course theme is “Queer & Queering Poetic Forms”. More details here: https://www.arvon.org/writing-courses/courses-retreats/residential-writing-course-poetry-22/. I know very well that the cost of these courses is no small thing, so – in line with my philosophy on all my workshops – I’m raising funds to offer at least one completely FREE place for someone from an underrepresented/marginalised community who has never been on an Arvon residential and could never attend this course otherwise.

I am fundraising in several ways! First, all proceeds from my next Zoom writing workshop, Unbox Your Words: Sounds Inspired!, on October 6th, 7-9pm UK time, will go towards the free place. This will be a brand new workshop, one I’ve been thinking about for a while, where we’ll take inspiration from all things sound-related – music, acoustics, noise, voice, listening – to create new work and/or enrich your works-in-progress, whatever kinds of things you write! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taniahershman/2376863

The second way  is through the incredible generosity of my poetry publisher, Jane Commane at Nine Arches Press. My co-tutor for this course is a fellow Nine Arches poet, James McDermott, as is our guest tutor, Kym Deyn. Jane has offered us something unique: 10 Mystery Book Bundles, each of which will contain a selection of 10 Nine Arches poetry books (and, sometimes, books on poetry & writing), worth over £100 per bundle – and available to you for only £50, with free shipping! (This offer is only available to those in the UK, sorry to all those of you further afield.) This is a fantastic chance to boost your poetry library, finding new favourite writers you may never have read before. Grab one here before they sell out!: https://taniahershman.com/product/fundraiser-nine-arches-mystery-poetry-book-bundle-worth-over-100-uk-only/