About

My Place or Yours is a new kind of writer residency from Apples & Snakes. Five poets are exploring real and virtual spaces in five regions of England.

My Place or Yours looks at place and how poets relate to that in their work.  Each poet has chosen a place where they are excited to be based and that will enable them to explore new ideas and create new poetry.  You can click on each of their pictures on the home page to follow their residency.   This is an opportunity to stretch the writers involved to create their very best work and to set a challenge for the future of performance poetry.

The residencies will all be shared online through this website, the poets posting their work and experiences.  Each poet has a mentor assigned and they will be adding their feedback on the work in progress – we want you to do the same.  Just as in a performance poetry gig, the audience are the essential ingredient alongside the artists.  Think of this like an open mic, we need you to give your feedback to the artists and let them know where to take the work next.

The My Place or Yours blog is an experiment in using online technology to connect writers and audiences, while developing new work. The project team are collectively authoring the blog – see everyone’s name by clicking on the author tab in the right hand column.  We’d love to hear any comments you have on any aspect of My Place or Yours – just click on any posting and leave a comment for everyone to read.

Take a moment to wander round My Place or Yours and make it your place.  We’d love to hear from you.

My Place or Yours is funded by Arts Council England.

More about Writer Residencies

Writer in residence projects or posts exist across the globe, in every shape and place you can imagine.  A writer and a place are put together – sometimes to generate new work, or to enable the writer to reach new audiences and participants, often to creatively explore the place in which the writer is based. Residencies frequently engage people from the community around the writer and can also offer crucial creative or financial support to writers at a key point in their career.  If you were doing a residency, which place would you choose?

More about Apples & Snakes

Apples & Snakes is England’s leading organisation for performance poetry.
Apples & Snakes focuses on working with emerging artists, producing new work
and putting poets in education. We work extensively with schools, prisons
and libraries to develop literacy, communication skills, motivation and
self-esteem through high quality performance poetry workshops and events. We
run regular events across England alongside pioneering artist development
programmes.

www.applesandsnakes.org