Get Ready to Play with Words this National Poetry Day
29 September 2025
National Poetry Day is just around the corner on Thursday, October 2nd, and Super Culture is gearing up for a day of inspiring workshops, events, and activities. This annual celebration encourages everyone, no matter their experience, to dive into the world of poetry—to experience it, to create it, and to share it with others.
This year, we’re excited to collaborate with The Write Box (Bob Walton and Sue Hill), the duo behind Super Culture’s popular weekly creative writing sessions, Chapter 1, and our vibrant online open mic poetry night, Speakeasy.
The national theme for this year’s celebration is Play, and all our events will embrace it wholeheartedly. We’ll be exploring how we can use words to imagine, to experience the world around us, and to connect with each other. Get ready to have fun and discover the playful side of poetry!
Opening the celebrations is Dr Claire Williamson’s Writing for Wellbeing workshop. Dr Williamson uses creative writing as a well to improve wellbeing and in this session people can explore uses prompts, such as images or poems to inspire their own creative writing in a reflective way.
🔗 Writing for Wellbeing with Dr Claire Williamson
📍 10am – 12 noon, The Lodge Grove Park
🎫 Pay-what-you-decide. Suggested £10
Head to Weston High Street and experience a town crier like never before as we are bringing back the ancient art of storytelling and journalism (before the days of fake news!). Local poets will use words to share personal truths, connect with universal emotions, and create empathy.
O Yay, O Yay; It’s National Poetry Day!
📍 12:30pm-1:30pm, Weston High Street
🎫 Free
In the afternoon people are invited to head over to The Blakehay Theatre to join in with a relaxed celebration of local voices and international talents with the Chapter One writing group, as they launch the second anthology of some of the short stories, poems, monologues and memoirs they’ve written in their meetings.
📍 2pm-3:30pm, The Blakehay Theatre
🎫 Free
To round the day off Loves will host the Speakeasy Poetry evening where Sue Hill, (The Write Box) launches her debut collection, Laying Down the Fragments. Immersive yourself in tales of youthful escapades and trauma to joy in nature, nostalgic memories of loved ones, and playful, haunting reminiscences of strange incidents in her parents’ hotel in Weston-super-Mare. Sue is supported by Louise Hill-Davis
Loves are dishing up a delicious plant-based supper, which you can order on the night for £8
📍 7pm- 10pm, Loves