Hayley Frances
Tues, 29th Oct, 19:00
Join writer, editor and translator Martha Sprackland for a rigorous redrafting workshop – bring some drafts along and be ready to pummel them into shape.
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:00 - 21:00 GMT
Join writer, editor and translator Martha Sprackland for a rigorous redrafting workshop – bring some drafts along and be ready to pummel them into shape.
NB Zoom links to the individual workshops will arrive in your inbox 48 hours before each workshop. Please check your junk folder.
Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator from the north of England. She was founding editor of independent publishing house Offord Road Books, and is currently poetry editor for CHEERIO Publishing, in partnership with the Estate of Francis Bacon.
Martha’s translations from Spanish include poems by Ana Gorría (Ciclo, Debacle Ediciones, 2020), Gladys Mendía (PTC/Ledbury, 2020), Verónica Viola Fisher (Arc/Edge Hill, 2021) and St John of the Cross (forthcoming from Penguin Classics, 2024). In 2021 she was shortlisted for the Peirene–Stevns Translation Prize for fiction.
Following two pamphlets, GLASS AS BROKEN GLASS (Rack, 2017) and MILK TOOTH (Rough Trade Books, 2018), Martha’s debut collection, CITADEL (Pavilion, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Costa Poetry Award and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize.
She has taught for Arvon and the Poetry School, and is a mentor for the Women Poets’ Prize.
Martha appeared and read at VERVE 2018 as part of an Offord Road Books showcase alongside Bobby Parker and James Brookes.