Upcoming

2023

• 10th January – Reading at TATE ST IVES – Book your free ticket: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/barbara-hepworth-art-and-life/poetry-reading-with-ella-frears SOLD OUT
• 17th January – MA Poetics of Imagination, Schumacher College, poetry workshop 2.15pm
• 17th January – Speakeasy – poetry reading & Q&A online https://thewritersblock.org.uk/events/
• 25th January – Guardian Masterclass online https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/2022/mar/04/on-brevity-how-to-write-very-short-poems-with-ella-frears SOLD OUT
• 26th & 27th January – School’s readings and workshops as part of TOAST Poetry’s schools tour
• 4th February – special guest tutor on Sian Davey’s photography course SOLD OUT
• 6th-10th February – Poetry Course at Dartington with special guest Sheena Patel https://www.dartington.org/event/expose-and-disclose/
• 15th February – Arvon guest reader, the Hurst
• 8th March – Reading for International Women’s Day, Foyles Charing Cross Rd – https://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.aspx?eventId=4304
• 10th -11th March Uni Slam & Hit the Ode, Birmingham https://www.birminghamhippodrome.com/calendar/hit-the-ode-march-2023/

May 2023

• May 6th & 13th – ‘creating your first collection’ workshop, City Lit https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/create-your-first-poetry-collection
• 24th May – reading & Q&A at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for Elizabeth Price’s SOUND OF THE BREAK https://schirn.ticketfritz.de/en/Event/Kalender/13391/33985?typ=Vorlage
• 27th May – in conversation with Don Patterson about his Memoir (Norwich) more details https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on/from-toy-fights-to-poetic-heights/
• 27th May – launch of Rialto 100 guest edited by Ella Frears & Will Harris (Norwich) more details tbc. https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on/a-republic-of-poetry/

JUNE 2023

• 1st June – presentation of Risplendi, Cara the Italian translation of Shine, Darling in Lugano, Switzerland
• 3rd June – presentation of Risplendi, Cara the Italian translation of Shine, Darling in Milan

July 2023

• 4th July Magma #86 (FOOD) launch, 49 Maltby Street
• 6th July – Guardian Masterclass Online https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/2022/mar/04/on-brevity-how-to-write-very-short-poems-with-ella-frears
• 8th July – Poetry Takeaway with the Southbank Centre Collective
• 13th July – Magma #86 potluck launch, Mount Florida Books, Glasgow
• 19th July – ‘All Keyboards are Legitimate’ launch, Chener Books, Dulwich
• 25th July – reading in Liverpool – (details tbc)

August 2023

• Stress Test Live – Edinburgh Book Fest (details tbc)

1-2-1 sessions/mentorship/manuscript assessments

I have a few slots available each month for 1-2-1 sessions online, looking at poetry or other creative writing.

This is for poets at any stage looking for focussed feedback or mentorship, or artists from other disciplines who would like to bring poetry/writing/text into their practice.

These can be one-off sessions, or a few sessions spread out in which we’d work towards a goal (exhibition, pamphlet, collection, publication etc.)

Previous mentees have gone on to publish collections, pamphlets, win poetry competitions, and put on award winning exhibitions & events.

I have taught for The Guardian, The Poetry Society, The Poetry School, City Lit, as an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths University, as a Guest Lecturer at Falmouth University and many more.

For more rates and availability please email me at ellafrears [at] hotmail.com. (Limited spaces available). It’s helpful to include a short sample of work in your email if you can.

Archive

Photos from various workshops & events.

FAREWELL SATURN – CASSINI’S FUNERAL 

Sept 15th 2017, Bold Tendencies, Peckham 

photos by Cat Goryn 

After nearly twenty years in space and countless discoveries made, on the 15th September 2017 the Cassini Spacecraft was sent the command to plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere — destroying it completely and resulting in a fiery end to the mission. 

Funded by the Arts Council England and in partnership with writing agency Spread the Word, Ella Frears was Poet in Residence at Royal Holloway University responding to the final months of the mission; working towards elegy and asking what the death of a machine one billion kilometres away might mean to us. 

The ‘Space Funeral’ was curated by Ella Frears, hosted by writer/performer Stuart Silver. 

Featuring poetry written during the residency as well as newly commissioned works by:

Composer, Rufus Isabel Elliot

Architect/Designer, Emma-Kate Matthews

Filmmaker, Louis Rizzo-Naudi 

Memorial temporary tattoos were designed by Ben Jones