Tees Women Poets

You will help us help up to 200 women a year find their voices, and their confidence,; process their challenges and stories, take up space and become truly themselves. Our participants have gone on to start their own cultural events, build businesses as creative writing tutors and therapists, set up their own residencies in community venues, win competitions, have books published, and have even performed poetry at the United Nations in Geneva.

We run free and accessible writing workshops, in person and online events, performance boot camps for emerging poets, outreach projects for people with lived experience of disadvantage, and internal training for new poetry teachers, We produce digital and print anthologies, film-poems, live performance pieces, festival street theatre, and spoken word albums. With our network of cultural and civic partners, we offer paid opportunities for women to advance their creative careers through residencies and commissions.