Projects
Poets in Your City
Poets In Your City is Apples and Snakes’ bold new performance poetry programme championing emerging poets.
WordCup 2026
WORDCUP2026 is a national performance poetry project in 7 cities/locations across England.
Apples and Snakes On:line
Apples and Snakes On:line is our brand new series of wintertime masterclasses. Take time out from the busy festive season and cold nights by developing your craft in these online sessions.
Words a Stage 2025
Word’s A Stage is Apples and Snakes’ annual poetic performance development programme aimed at poets aged 21-30.
Welcome to Wandsworth: Schools Poetry Festival
A borough-wide poetry project for primary schools in Wandsworth, delivered in partnership with Apples & Snakes
Synergy Slam Poets
Synergy Slam Poets Workshop Programs are two unique rolling, go-at-you-own-pace courses. They explore the dynamics of the synergy of nature’s response and ability to adapt to sweeping urbanization
Creative Lab 2024
Creative Lab 2024 was a series of workshops, poetry performances and networking opportunities for poets to come together, learn, write and perform. The Lab was led by American poet Mahogany Brown. Mahogany is a writer, playwright, & educator. Browne’s books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky, Black Girl Magic, and the banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s…
Young Producers Programme
Over the course of 12 engaging weeks, Young Producers will dive into all aspects of event planning, with the exciting opportunity to co-produce their very own live poetry event at Dugdale Arts Centre.
National Poetry Day 2024
National Poetry Day 2024… discover how we’re celebrating!
Sky Arts Awards
Sky Arts has announced that the inaugural Sky Arts Awards will be taking place on 17th September at The Roundhouse. Apples and Snakes were asked to sit on the judging panel for the poetry category. Our Artistic Director, Lisa Mead was on a panel of poets including Lemn Sissay, Asif Khan, Nikita Gill, Laura Hackett,…
UnderOne Festival
Apples and Snakes recently supported UnderOne Festival. Our task was to inspire creativity and enhance people’s well-being during the event.
Word’s A Stage 2024
Learn about this year’s cohort for Word’s a Stage 2024. Produced by Apples and Snakes, in partnership with Arvon.
Red Room Poetry
Poetry can be a powerful medium for truth telling, personal expression, and social journeys – and a potent tool to eliminate bias and flip what we think we know on its head. In this workshop for young poets (14-18), join Young Poet Laureate for Coventry Aamani Kanda (UK) and Australian Poetry Slam Co-Champion KJ Haywood…
Synergy Slam Poets
Synergy Slam is an online and in-person poetry, performance and film competition.
Work From Home
Work From Home helps us to continue to support our Alumni after previous Apples and Snakes’ projects have come to an end.
On Our Own Terms
Spoken word poet Leah Thorn and photographer Anita McKenzie celebrate International Women’s Day with ‘On Our Own Terms’. An in-person workshop of poetry-writing and portrait photography for women in their 60s and 70s,
On The Side
Six early career poets spent six days creating poetry in response to street art at the On the Side exhibition in Waterloo.
All Borders Blur
Drawing from Apple and Snake’s extensive spoken word archive All Borders Blur investigates the contemporary traditions of UK spoken word.
England Calling
Inspired by the stories of the Windrush Generation poet Kat Francois creates four films celebrating their life and work.
Future Voices
project overview To celebrate Apples and Snakes’ 40th anniversary, we launched Future Voices – a project that seeks to nurture and grow emerging talent from across England. We invited leading spoken word artists and filmmakers to run an intensive masterclass programme for the 40 emerging poets online. The aim of the programme war for participants…
WORDCUP2023
WORDCUP 2023: Our national showcase of young poets WORDCUP 2023 brought together teams of young people from across the country with the aim of creating a community of young poets and a platform for their voices to be heard. Following poetry and performance workshops delivered in six regional hubs by leading UK poets, the young…
Diversifying Children’s Literature
Joseph Coelho X Apples and Snakes x Otter Barry books We believe representation matters and that’s why we are working with Joseph Coelho, Waterstones Children’s Laureate, and Otter-Barry Books on a project which aims to help diversify children’s literature by developing voices traditionally underrepresented in children’s literature. Funded by Arts Council England, the project includes…
Content Cottage with Keats-Shelley Memorial Trust
In 2022, three organisations came together to explore traditional poetry in the context of modern life, set in the English countryside. Content Cottage is a digital literature project on Romantic Poetry, from the UK’s leading spoken word organisation, Apples and Snakes, in partnership with the Keats- Shelley Memorial Association and First Story. The outcome of…
Kindness Competition 2023
Kindness Poetry Competition 2023 Winners – congratulations Congratulations to Pravan Kubavat, Kyan Norris and Mattie Stone! Read their poems below. We had hundreds of entries from across the country and it was a great pleasure to read them all. Thank you to everyone that entered and everyone that made this competition possible. Spin! is now…
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