Tees Women Poets

Inspiring & empowering Tees women thru creative self-expression & sisterhood! Workshops, playspaces, & online open mic TWOOMPH! Funded by Arts Council England

17/06/2026

Do you love the punk vibes of cut-and-paste zines and collaged found poems?

Then make sure you pick up a free copy of our New Sisterhood zine from our project exhibition at Teesside Archives before 30th June. It's chock full of poetry, memoir, zine art and collage reflecting on the legacies of 1980s women's and LGBT+ activism in Teesside - and it even comes with a special podcast episode.

Listen to the podcast on Tees Women Poets YouTube channel here:https://youtu.be/5Lv-NItUqwg?si=RKWtYdH_18yc5D-M

New Sisterhood is a partnership project with Tees Women Poets and Teesside Archives. The New Sisterhood project was made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

16/06/2026

Our next featured artist performing in The Keen and Other Stories as Part of Middlesbrough Storytelling Festival is Lizzie Lovejoy!

Gobby Lass, Lizzie Lovejoy is a Tees Valley born Poet, Performer and Picture-Maker. They've spent their life listening to peoples words, and now Lizzie translates local narratives into creative works, like these tales from home and the people who make it what it is.

Want to take part? Be one of of five readers to perform one poem that tells a story - to request a slot please email your poem to [email protected]
Come along and show your support for The Keen and Other Stories:

📅 Saturday 27th June, 7pm-9.30pm

📍Infant Hercules, 84 Grange Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2LS

🔗Book your free tickets via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../the-keen-and-other...

11/06/2026

Have you booked your free ticket for How To Enjoy Poetry - Midsummer Ceilidh? We have a very special offer, for this month only, you can attend How To Enjoy Poetry for free!

Want to write better poems? Read more great poems! This month, it's up to you to being along your favourite poems!

Please select and send one poem by a poet you admire; something that has inspired or taught you more about the craft and possibilities of poetry. If you send it to [email protected] I can be in charge of screen sharing. Video/audio poems also welcome!

📅 Monday 29th June, 7.30-9pm
📍ONLINE
🔗 Book your tickets via the Tees Women Poets Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-enjoy-poetry-midsummer-ceilidh-tickets-1990348438759

10/06/2026

Where did your feminism start?

New Sisterhood - a project exploring the legacies of 1980s feminist activism in Teesside. Inside our zine anthology and on our podcast you can read and hear the true life stories of how our feminisms began, from the people who were there.

Pick up your free copy of the New Sisterhood anthology at our project exhibition at Teesside Archives, Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough until 30th June

Listen to the podcast on Tees Women Poets YouTube channel here:https://youtu.be/5Lv-NItUqwg?si=RKWtYdH_18yc5D-M

New Sisterhood is a partnership project with Tees Women Poets and Teesside Archives. The New Sisterhood project was made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

08/06/2026

Next up as a featured artist performing in The Keen and Other Stories as Part of Middlesbrough Storytelling Festival is Audrey Cook with The Classic Monster. .and.ginger

Audrey Cook is a q***r, non-binary performance maker and writer from Teesside, known for their camp, cult, and surreal style of storytelling. Witness the start of a work in progress project telling local stories with inspiration from hammer horrors and creature features.

Want to take part? Be one of of five readers to perform one poem that tells a story - to request a slot please email your poem to [email protected]

Come along and show your support for The Keen and Other Stories:

📅 Saturday 27th June, 7pm-9.30pm

📍Infant Hercules, 84 Grange Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2LS

🔗Book your free tickets via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-keen-and-other-stories-tickets-1988164080284

03/06/2026

Come along to our New Sisterhood project exhibition at Teesside Archives before 30th June. Here's a sneak peak of what you can except from the exhibition, including vintage feminist magazines like Spare Rib which are available to look at in the display cabinet drawers! You can also pick up a free copy of our New Sisterhood zine while you're there.

New Sisterhood is made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and is a partnership project between Tees Women Poets and Teesside Archives.

02/06/2026

You can now book the Selkie workshop: Myth, Poetry, Art and Storytelling hosted by Carmen Marcus and Alice Grey for an immersive workshop that invites women to explore myth, poetry and art.

This free, special creative workshop inspired by the Selkie story, the mysterious sealwomen of northern folklore who shed their skins to walk among humans. Taking place alongside the Spirits in the wild, FokloreTales from North Yorkshire, in the Inspired by…Gallery at Danby Moorlands Centre, this immersive workshop invites women to explore myth, poetry and art making as pathways back to creativity.

PLEASE NOTE: The Danby Centre will be provide a minibus to Danby, the pick up will be arranged from Middlesbrough Train Station. You will be asked if you wish to reserve a free seat when booking your ticket, however, spaces for the minibus are limited.

📅 Saturday 22nd August, 11am-3pm
📍 Danby Lodge National Park Centre
🔗 - Book your free tickets and reserve your spot on the mini bus via the Tees Women Poets Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/selkie-workshop-myth-poetry-art-and-storytelling-tickets-1990768975596

01/06/2026

Our second featured artist performing at Middlesbrough Storytelling Festival as part of The Keen and Other Stories is Kym Deyn with her poetry collection Folkish.

Folkish is a trickster figure masquerading as a poetry collection. Full of ghosts, worms, saints, and Northern English folklore, Kym Deyn’s debut is playful, spirited and absolutely furious – moving between the alive, the legendary, and the haunted in endlessly inventive forms. Q***r and disconcerting, Kym Deyn’s debut is chock-full with poems which tear at both the heart and the guts. They inhabit a world where dark eyes scour graveyards for breakfast and saints are as likely to spit as to pray. This is poetry as hauntology, where England’s North is alive with untrustworthy and beguiling pasts, presents, and futures.

We're still looking for five readers only to perform one poem that tells a story - to request a slot please email your poem to [email protected]

📅Saturday 27th June, 7pm-9.30pm

📍Infant Hercules, 84 Grange Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2LS

🔗You can book your free tickets via: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-keen-and-other-stories-tickets-1988164080284

27/05/2026

New Sisterhood - people from Tees Women Poets, Tees Valley Women's Centre, ARCH, Middlesbrough Voices, Hart Gables and Connect 360 migrant support service have been making bright, bold, punk mini-zines about their experiences.

See them in the flesh at our project exhibition, and take away the highlights reproduced in our FREE poetry + art anthology. Pick up your copy at our exhibition table, Teesside Archives, the Dorman Museum until 30th June.

New Sisterhood was made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and is a partnership project by Tees Women Poets and Teesside Achieves.

25/05/2026

Announcement; We will be performing The Keen and Other Stories on Saturday 27th June, 7pm-9.30pm as Part of Middlesbrough Storytelling Festival!

Come along for an evening of lyrical storytelling from the Tees Women Poets, spanning local lives, traditional and contemporary folklore, hauntology - and a curated open mic of five readers only, one poem per person, all poems to tell a story - to request a slot please email your poem to [email protected]

Our First Featured artist is Carmen Marcus, with her poem The Keen:

Maeve is Donegal's last and worst Keening woman. She has one job! To sing the souls of the departed from here to the Other Side. But she can't because - well it's complicated. And now there's a queue of the dead waiting in the back room of The Crossroads bar and they're not happy about it. Expect ghosts, dark humour and a hot priest.

📍Infant Hercules, 84 Grange Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2LS

🔗Tickets are free you can book via the link in our bio or take your chances on the night!

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