Exeter University will be marking Black History Month with a workshop and talk from award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell. 

Sponsored by the Wellcome-funded After the End project, a workshop on ‘Poetry, Time and the Question of Endings’ will take place on Wednesday 23 October from 1:00-3:30pm in the Boardroom. 

This supportive, non-judgemental workshop is open to all – both new and experienced poets are welcome. Participants will be offered creative prompts and work by established poets to help them write and share their work with confidence. Light refreshments will be served.

An event sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing  will follow the workshop: at 4pm in Newman Collaborative LT C/D. Jenny will perform poetry from her three collections and latest manuscript and take part in a Q&A; there will also be an open mic.

Jenny Mitchell is currently the Inaugural Poet-in-the-Community at the British Library, working with the Engagement Team. She’s recently been nominated as Best of the Net 2025, won the Ink, Sweat and Tears May 2024 Poetry Competition, the Shooter Poetry Competition in 2023, the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize in 2022 and the Poetry Book Awards in 2021 for her second collection, Map of a Plantation. The prize-winning debut collection, Her Lost Language, is one of 44 Poetry Books for 2019 (Poetry Wales), and her latest collection, Resurrection of a Black Man, contains three prize-winning poems and is featured on the US podcast Poetry Unbound. She was Poet-in-Residence at Sussex University in 2024, and Artist in Association at Birkbeck from 2021-22.