Apprenticeship Scheme
Generously funded by The Fenton Arts Trust and Arts Council England, this is a scheme for talented emerging poets, of any age, who will each be matched with a prominent poet with proven experience in supporting the work of other writers.
Our Apprenticeship scheme is now closed
We are delighted to announce the two winners of the Poetry London Apprenticeship Scheme, generously funded by the Fenton Arts Trust and Arts Council England.
Freya Gillard is a young writer from Devon. She is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2023 and has had numerous poetry and articles published on the Poetry Society website. She is also a graduate of the BFI’s Storytelling Workshop, developing new voices in screenwriting from the South West.
Nasim Luczaj is a poet and Polish—English translator based in London. She is the author of HIND MOUTH (Earthbound Press) and the winner of the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. Her work has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024 and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2024, and appeared in publications including Prototype 5, Propel, Gutter, Datableed, Tentacular, SPAM zine, and Wet Grain. She was raised in the Polish Carpathians.
Nasim Luczaj and Freya Gillard will work with Pascale Petit to develop their poetry over the next few months in a series of meetings and workshops. Pascale Petit said ‘there’s passion and mystery in their work, which I thought exciting.’
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