Comedy and Poetry Workshops with Suchandrika - Week 1
Tue 7 Apr 2026, 6:30pm
Venue: Morocco Bound Bookshop, London
Address: 3A Pilots Walk, New Acres, London, SW18 1UZ
This workshop is the first in a set of workshops led by Suchandrika Chakrabarti, designed to get you weaving comedy into your poetry writing, performance and even editing.
The theme for this workshop is: Using comedy prompts for poetry
This session is designed to get you writing and chatting to other poets, plus thinking about persona in comedy and in poetry. How does that change how you write? Let’s find out…
While each session works as a standalone, the tutor recommends attending all all three.
About the tutor
Suchandrika Chakrabarti is a writer and performer from London. She has been shortlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize (2025), and longlisted for The London Library Emerging Writers Programme (2025). She gave a lightning talk, “ChatGPT, Rewrite Me Like One Of Your French Girls,” at the 2025 Lyra Poetry / AI Symposium in Bristol, and has performed her poetry at London Literature Week 2025.
