Programmes
Poetry, taught properly
Clubs in schools, a mentorship programme for emerging poets, workshops, showcases and publishing. Different rooms, one standard.
Creative Clubs in schools
A weekly poetry club inside primary and secondary schools. A trained facilitator, roughly two hours a week, and a curriculum that moves pupils from first draft to first performance across a term.
Mentorship
Pupils who want to keep going are paired with a poet who workshops their writing properly — the same model Punpoets Media has run with emerging poets since 2020.
Performance & showcases
Every term ends on a stage. Pupils perform what they wrote to their school and their families, and the strongest work goes to our termly showcase.
Publishing & creative opportunities
Each club produces an anthology of its pupils’ writing. Beyond that: recordings, competitions, and a route into everything else Punpoets Media runs.
A school registers
You tell us your year groups, your timetable and the room you can give us. It takes five minutes.
We match a facilitator
A trained facilitator near you is paired with your school, and a weekly slot is agreed.
The club runs weekly
Around two hours a week across the term. We supply session plans, prompts and materials.
The term ends on a stage
Pupils perform what they wrote — to their school, and to everyone else at the showcase.
For schools
What your school actually needs to provide
Less than most schools expect. We bring the facilitator, the curriculum, the prompts and the materials.
- A room or hall for roughly two hours a week
- A staff contact who can let us in and keep the register
- Pupils who want to be there — the club works best when it is chosen, not assigned
There is no fee to register. Where a school cannot cover materials, our partners do.
Questions
Before you ask
No. Registering is free, and running a club costs the school nothing. Where a school cannot cover materials, our partners do.
Roughly two hours a week across a term, at a time that suits your timetable. Most schools run it after school or in a dedicated club slot.
A room or hall, a staff contact who can let the facilitator in and keep a register, and pupils who want to be there. We bring the facilitator, the curriculum, the prompts and the materials.
Both primary and secondary. Session plans are written for the age in the room, so tell us your year groups when you register.
Applications open with each edition of the Punpoets Mentorship Programme. Follow us on Instagram or send us a message and we will tell you when the next call opens.
Punpoets Media is a Nigerian poetry community, and much of what we run is online and open to poets anywhere.
Ready to bring poetry into your school?
Register a school, apply to facilitate, volunteer a few hours, or back the work as a partner. Every route starts with one form.