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Grantside poetry commission callout…

Grantside wish to engage and commission a poet to create a short poem which will be designed onto the façade of its new co-living development, The Hive in Kelham Island, as a permanent public artwork…
Beth reads at Off the Shelf Festival of Words

As part of Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Hive poet Beth Davies with be reading with Peter and Ann Sansom in celebration of the forty best poems of the last forty years, gathered from The North, the UK’s inspirational poetry magazine produced by Sheffield’s The Poetry Business…
Congratulations BBC Young Writers’ Award 2025

A massive congratulations to 17-year-old Sheffield Young Writer Rebecca Smith, one of five shortlisted for the BBC Young Writers’ Short Story Award 2025 with Cambridge University…
Slug Manifesto: An exhibition-inspired creative writing workshop

Are you a young person interested in creative writing and art? Then this is the perfect opportunity to join us for a fun and relaxed writing workshop inspired by Site Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, Slime Mother, opening 3rd October….
Young Northern Writers Awards 2025

A huge congratulations to Charlie Jolley, Haider Nazir and Maisie Mair, who were all placed in the Young Northern Writers Awards 2025! The awards were announced in a ceremony at Northumbria University in Newcastle on 24th June 2025…

From Sidelines to Summit: My Forward Prize Weekend

It was my second time attending the Young Poets Summit and Forward Prize events, the last being in 2023 in Leeds. Once again, I enjoyed it immensely, but this time I was challenged to step out of the sidelines in several exciting roles…

Congratulations Nathan! Foyle Young Poets…

A huge congratulations to 16-year-old Rotherham Young Writer Nathan Graham – one of the 15 winning poets of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2025! This year a record-breaking 28,344 poems were entered into the competition from 10,920 young poets. Young people from 135 countries took part from…

Ourselves Reflected Back Launch

On October 2nd, at the Rotherham Civic Theatre, members of the Hive Young Writers Network took to the stage for the launch of Ourselves Reflected Back — a brand-new poetry anthology published by Flux Rotherham as part of their Spread the Word project, featuring a whopping 70 local poets and 137 poems….