Session 6 resources

Thanks to all those who came along to the May session of Pen to Paper, coming in from the first bit of sunshine in days to spend an afternoon in the basement of BMAG..! I hope you found the session on Japanese forms - tanka, haiku, and haibun - a little bit different, interesting, and inspiring. For those of you who missed this session, the decision to focus on Japanese poetry was to hopefully generate some material for the Offa's Press call for submissions to their new anthology (see the post below for full details). You can find the recap of exercises, and the resources we looked at in the session, by going to the 'Sessions' tab above, or follow the link here.

As always, do feel free to send me any pieces - either for publication here on the blog, or pieces you're thinking of submitting, that you'd like me to take a glance over. I happy to see anything, even works in progress or early drafts! My email is nellie.cole@sky.com.

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Finally, I got confirmation from BMAG today that we can continue to run Pen to Paper sessions at the museum if we so wish. We just need to confirm dates with them as soon as possible to ensure we get the spaces we want on the days we need. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this -

• are you interested in future Pen to Paper events?
• do you still think the spaces at BMAG, and the spaces available, are suitable for our needs? 
• is the arrangement still something that works for you (five hour sessions, Saturdays, monthly, ect.)?
• where would you like to see the sessions going in the future (different venues, external trips, guest lecturers, publications, ect.)?

Thank you everyone for your continued support, attendance, enthusiasm, and generosity in your donations. I feel we have nurtured a really lovely group here, and I hope you find the sessions, exercise, and discussions as useful and inspiring as I do.

Nellie x