At the end of July, the Rebecca Swift Foundation (RSF) launched a 30-day fundraising campaign seeking £10,000 to protect our support for women poets and provide a vital three-month window in which the charity can build a new strategy and fundraising plan, with a £15,000 stretch goal to enable additional staffing and fundraising support. RSF launched in 2018, and is …
Praise for Woman, Mapped Anthology
Praise has been pouring in for the Rebecca Swift Foundation anthology of women’s voices, published by Fly on the Wall Press. Woman, Mapped is available to purchase from the publisher now, with a launch event taking place July 31st at the International Anthony Burgess Centre in Manchester. Here are some of the quotes so far: “Truly a starburst of voices …
Rebecca Swift Foundation Seeks New Chair and Trustees
The Rebecca Swift Foundation is recruiting for a new Chair and two new Trustees to support our national work advocating for and championing UK-based women poets. The Rebecca Swift Foundation is the only UK-based charity to focus on advancing the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets. We are currently one year into a two-year funded programme for women poets …
Rebecca Swift Foundation Launches Women Poets Anthology
The Rebecca Swift Foundation will join forces with Fly on the Wall Press to publish an anthology of women poets in the UK.
Rebecca Swift Foundation Appoints Creative Associates
Carmen Marcus, Kuli Kohli and Tolu Agbelusi join RSF to create regional hubs for women poets in Newcastle, Wolverhampton and London
RSF Welcomes Degna Stone Amid Crowdfunder Success
The Rebecca Swift Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Degna Stone as its new project manager, in an exciting week for the charity as we wrap a vital crowdfunding campaign, Empowering Women Poets, exceeding our original target of £10,000. Stone joins the Foundation as the successor to Kirsten Luckins, who has been with the charity since the start …
Rebecca Swift Foundation Fundraiser
Throughout October, the Rebecca Swift Foundation will be running a crowdfunding campaign to raise vital funds so that we can continue to serve our growing community of women poets.
Winners announced for the 2022 Women Poets’ Prize
Poets Prerana Kumar, Dillon Jaxx and Jennifer Lee Tsai have been announced as the winners of the 2022 Women Poets’ Prize at the inaugural one-day Women Poets’ Festival at the National Centre for Writing, Norwich. The biennial prize, founded by the Rebecca Swift Foundation and supported by FMcM, is awarded to three women writers who each receive a holistic package …
Women Poets’ Prize 2022 shortlist revealed
Judges Penelope Shuttle, Abi Palmer, and Nikita Gill have selected the “vital, varied and exciting” poets shortlisted for the third iteration of our biennial Prize.
Women Poets’ Prize 2022 – our longlisted poets, in their own words…
We’re delighted to announce the thirty poets who make up our 2022 longlist for the Women Poets’ Prize