Mentoring and Individual Courses :

Every year I work closely with a small number of poets, writers, artists to help mentor them to develop their work or a specific project. These programs are adapted to the individual, but generally take the form of multiple online and / or face to face meetings, as well as engaging in the multiple courses I have taught, including the four mentioned below.

In general, my mentees have been poets and writers who are seeking specific expertise in the fields I have practised and taught for the past 15 years including multiple Arts Council Developing Your Own Practise Awards recipients and established novelists and artists looking to expand their practise into literature - be it developing a poetry collection, visual poetry, writing new languages, collaboration, independent publishing, event curation, European and world literature and others fields. I have also experience supporting early career or young poets, who I have mentored through charities such as Severn Arts and their Young Laureate scheme. I also welcome working with people completely new to the field, and many of my mentees are based beyond the UK, having worked with those in Canada, China, Japan and Australia.

The programs I offer are supportive and dynamic, an opportunity to share knowledge that others have passed to me, and like my events, they are designed to be hospitable and mindful, in order to create the freedom to take risks and grow. Mentoring is thus a process to explore and expand one’s practise, designed to cover not only feedback on creative work, but also encouraging contextual development around sharing that work and exploring methodology and mode. Mentoring as first and foremost prompt and permissiveness, bolstered by a ambitious array of resources, informal, adaptable with integration too for relevant activities and opportunities in orbit.

Through my teaching work at Kingston University, Tate Modern, Photography Gallery, Poetry School, my online courses and many other institutions, I have worked with far over 1000 people, helping them develop their own original vision for the literature they want to write and share. I welcome a conversation with anyone interested in such a program, and I can be reached via email stevenjfowler at yahoo.co.uk

During the pandemic and beyond I offer these four courses below online, to hundreds of generous attendees. These are available on a one to one basis and as part of a mentoring program. Click the link for more.

More info on my work can be found here https://www.stevenjfowler.com/bio and across this site, and here a short talk I gave for the Arnolfini Gallery, on asemic writing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqh8c1g2LDg