The Salon: Developing Your Poems
Join Richard Scott and Rachel Long for this twelve-week inspiring and intermediate course – find new paths for your work, broaden your understanding of the craft and meet a group of supportive, like-minded poets.
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- Thursdays, 19:00–21:00
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£200 / month for 2 months and a £395.00 deposit
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Deepen your knowledge and create new work
At the heart of this lively and energetic course is the writing and sharing of new work. In weekly two-hour sessions, you’ll be creatively challenged to break free of your comfort zones.
You will be writing new poems each week with the expectation that you will broaden your techniques and intensify your poetic ambitions. Through the close reading and discussion of key texts, you’ll also be pushed towards a more rewarding way of reading and engaging with inspiring, important and contemporary poetry.
Is this the right course for me?
This is an intermediate poetry course, which will work best for students who have already begun writing poetry, or who work professionally in another writing field and are looking to turn their hand to poetry.
The Faber Academy Scholarship Programme
There are scholarship places available on this course for writers who otherwise could not afford to attend. We particularly welcome applications from writers of colour, disabled writers and LGBTQ+ writers.
To apply, please submit three poems, along with your covering letter (both as Word docs or PDFs) to academy@faber.co.uk, with the subject line ‘Scholarship Application: The Salon – September 2025’. The full terms and conditions and more information about our scholarship programme can be found below.
The deadline for application is Sunday 7 September 2025 at 23:59.
The course will consist of ten two-hour classes, at Faber's headquarters in central London. Each class will include guided writing time with prompts, or alternatively, a take-home writing exercise.
You’ll also receive two thirty-minute tutorials with Rachel and Richard. There'll also be two set texts, with guest sessions and readings led by both of the authors, to be confirmed soon.
You'll also have the opportunity to meet as a group to discuss the set texts and to undertake further writing exercises together whilst the tutorials are taking place.
This course takes place on Thursday evenings at Faber's headquarters in central London, running from 19:00 until 21:00.
Course Programme
Session 1
Thursday 25 September, 19:00–21:00
Introductions and Language with Ri...
Session 2
2 October, 19:00–21:00
The (Contemporary) Sonnet with Rac...
Session 3
9 October, 19:00–21:00
Drafting and Editing with Richard ...
Tutors
Rachel Long
Rachel Long’s debut collection, My Darling from the Lions was published by Picador in the UK, in 2020, and by Tin House, in the US, in 2021. It was shortlisted for...
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Richard Scott
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His pamphlet Wound (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem...
More About This TutorBeyond amazing. The quality of the teaching was outstanding.
Location
The Bindery
51 Hatton Garden
London EC1N 8HN
How to get here
Faber’s office, The Bindery, is well connected by public transport, with Farringdon Station just five minutes’ walk away, and stops for several bus routes in the area too. If you’re coming from outside of London, the office is a short bus or taxi journey from Kings Cross, Euston and St Pancras stations.
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