Women in Word Literary Festival
Featuring a festival bookclub, in conversation / readings from established and emerging women writers, talks, events and workshops, poetry films by women, networking opportunities, a literary stitch event – and an evening finale in a Georgian ballroom!
POETRY FILM EVENT
As part of our festival we have a Poetry Film event co-curated by Sarah Tremlett, Linda Cleary and Lally MacBeth. The selected poetry films will be screened at The Hypatia Trust, Penzance, Cornwall, UK in the early evening on Thursday 6th June.
On the next day, Friday 7th June, we also have a Poetry Film Roundtable for poetry film makers and those interested (open participation), with discussion of process and practice, hosted by Sarah Tremlett.
CALL OUT FOR SHORT POETRY FILMS
by women with connections/ties to Cornwall
We are looking for short poetry films, ideally 5 mins or less but a few longer films can be considered, made by women with connections/ties to Cornwall, whether as originator of the poetry content or as director, for our Women in Word festival in June 2024.
HOW TO SUBMIT
In the first instance please email: linda@hypatia-trust.org.uk and a submission form will be emailed out to you.
Note: the submissions window closes 30th April and all forms and films must have been submitted by then.
FILMS WILL BE SELECTED FOR INCLUSION BY:
Sarah Tremlett
Sarah Tremlett is a prize-winning poetry film-maker, poet and theorist and director and editor of Liberated Words online. Exhibitor and key speaker at Tom Konyves’ Poets with a Video Camera exhibition, Surrey, Vancouver (2022), she is a juror and curator at festivals; most recently Fotogenia, Women in Word & REELpoetry, and has given numerous talks, readings and screenings on the subject worldwide such as Vancouver & San Francisco, 2022. Her publication The Poetics of Poetry Film (Intellect Books UK, 2021) has been described as ‘‘A ground- breaking, encyclopaedic work, and an industry Bible’ https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-poetics-of-poetry-film
She also has a chapter on Voice and New Narrative frameworks in Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience (Routledge, 2024). Sarah runs a family history poetry film project, and
inaugurated the Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film screening and prize, which she presented at FOTOGENIA, Mexico City, 2023. Published by Poem Film Editions through Liberated Words, the accompanying innovative bilingual publication Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow includes the poems, stills and artists’ details, along with a QR link to all the films in the screening.
More on Sarah here: www.sarahtremlett.com and www.liberatedwords.com
Linda Cleary
Linda Cleary is a British born Irish diaspora writer from a working class background, currently living in Cornwall. Her work has been published in various journals plus spoken word, audio and poetry film; one of her most recent poetry films was in Bloomsday Festival 2023. She is a Literary Arts Consultant delivering courses, coaching and editing. Linda set up and curated Hypatia Publications' literary department 2019 – 2022 and she is the creator and curator of our Women in Word literary festival.
More on Linda here: https://www.freewriterscentre.org/about.html
Lally MacBeth
Lally MacBeth is an artist, writer and researcher. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2013 with a First Class Honours in Fashion History & Theory, and has since divided her time between being sensible and silly. She founded The Folk Archive in 2020, and co-founded Stone Club in 2021. She writes regularly for Caught by the River, has curated film programmes for Folkestone Docu Fest and London Short Film Festival, and sits on the board for Bosena.