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We run an occasional range of events online and in person, from book launches to in-person readings and workshops. This has included the London tour of Kim Addonizio and a the recent launch of Penny Sharman's new collection. Join our mailing list to hear about new events as they're announced.

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Interviews

In Conversation With Mary Ruefle - with Jo Bell

At The Writing School we're always keen to learn from the best and we've been delighted to be able to interview the giant of American letters - Mary Ruefle (linked at the bottom of this text).

Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.

She is also the author of numerous collections, but Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (winner of the William Carlos Williams Award) has become a modern classic across the English speaking world. It is known as required reading for anyone who wants to write poetry.

Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, where she serves as the state’s poet laureate.

In an insightful, funny and sometimes profound interview Ruefle talks to the leading UK poet and literary thinker Jo Bell. The discussion is a delight throughout and a perfect primer for poets of all levels of experience. The American poet offer brilliant thoughts on the importance of doing nothing, her relationship with technology, whether she's writing poetry or prose.