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Academy Plus

Dates: 31 March – 26 May 2025
Duration: 9 weeks
Tutors: Anthony Anaxagorou, Jack Underwood, Caroline Bird
Course fee: £400
One-to-ones: Optional, 30-minute, £50 each

The Academy Plus programme offers the chance to continue working with our tutors over a longer period at a less intensive pace. 

The course will run for 9 weeks (Mon 31 March – Mon 26 May) with a two-hour online group workshop each Monday, 7-9pm UK and divided between your three tutors, with Anthony leading weeks 1-3, Jack weeks 4-6, and Caroline weeks 7-9. 

As with all our Academy courses, you’ll be provided with session recordings, password-protected on our Vimeo, for your future reference, as well as access to a Padlet for materials.

Optional individual one-to-ones: In addition to the weekly workshops, we’re pleased to offer individual 30-minute one-to-ones with each tutor during their teaching weeks. One-to-ones can be booked at a standalone fee of £50 per tutorial, and are subject to availability.

Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her sixth collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and the Costa Prize. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics. As a playwright, Bird has been shortlisted for the George Devine Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in May 2022. Her latest collection, Ambush at Still Lake, was published by Carcanet in 2024.

Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher. His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. His second collection, After the Formalities, was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry.

Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, publisher of Out-Spoken Press, and editor-in-chief of Propel Magazine. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow at the University of Roehampton. In 2023 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Jack Underwood

Jack Underwood is a poet, writer and critic. He is author of Happiness (Faber 2015), Solo for Mascha Voice (Test Centre, 2018) and A Year in the New Life (Faber 2021). His debut work of non-fiction, NOT EVEN THIS, was published by Corsair in 2021, exploring parallels between quantum physics, black hole science, cyborgism, and the philosophies of language and knowledge and poetics, all through the lens of new parenthood. He has collaborated widely with composers and artists, and his work has been published internationally and in translation. He is co-presenter and curator of the Faber Poetry Podcast and is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, and is currently working on a collection of short fiction.