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Day: August 5, 2021

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ACE Funding News

Initial thoughts and feelings

Kate
August 5, 2021August 20, 2021 No Comments

I can’t express how this DYCP Grant feels. If you’ve never been in a position where you have to turn down gigs and slams because you just can’t afford to go, and bring your carer with you at the same time. I can’t believe the next level of work this grant will enable me to do. […]

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DYCP Funding??

Kate
August 5, 2021August 20, 2021 No Comments

I honestly can’t believe I get to write this, but after my rejected application in March for something else, I decided to apply for a DYCP grant (developing your creative practice) from Arts Council England to get mentorship, help with editing, access to writing courses etc for my debut collection. And yesterday they said yes. […]

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Kathryn O’Driscoll is a spoken word poet, writer and activist from Bath, England. She is a U.K. slam champion and a World Slam Finalist (2021). She talks openly about disabilities, mental health, LGBTQIA+ issues and joys and gender politics in her wide range of poems.

She was longlisted for the Outspoken Prize for Performance Poetry, and the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Artist in 2022. In 2021 she was one of the featured poets on the (BAFTA winning) Sky Arts spoken word TV show Life and Rhymes.

She is the founder and creator of CandleLit Sessions and the Sword Forge Collective, a poetry reader for Full House Literary Magazine, and Co-Artistic Director of Spoken Word at PBH’s Free Fringe.

Her debut collection ‘Cliff Notes’ was released by Verve Poetry Press in February.

Read Some Of My Work

  • Cliff Notes is now available to preorder!
  • Peony Bruised
  • Vinegar
  • The Austere Beauty of Trying Not To Die
  • Snow day

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