DIARY
2026
JANUARY
Saturday 17th + 24th:
Untold Stories - two workshops at The New Scriptorium at Arbroath Abbey, with Arbroath 2020+1. 10.30am-11.30am. Free, booking required. Details & booking here. Set within the historic surroundings of The Scriptorium at Arbroath Abbey, these workshops invite participants to explore the ways stories are preserved, forgotten, or reinvented. Drawing on ongoing research into the Abbey and conversations with the local community, we are beginning to uncover remarkable figures and narratives—some drawn from recorded history, others from oral tradition, imaginative speculation, or the faint traces left by time. These sessions offer a rare chance to engage creatively with these emerging stories, while also developing your own.
Wednesday 21st (+ four other dates):
Off the Rails Writing Group Block ONE, at Off the Rails Arthouse in Ladybank, Fife. Five fortnightly sessions, Wednesdays 6-9pm: 21st Jan; 4th + 18th Feb; 4th + 18th March. £160. Usually fully subscribed, one or two spots available: info@rebeccajoysharp.com
Saturday 31st (+ three other dates):
Creative Alchemy. A series of four in-person full-day workshops in Fife - in January, May, August and October. Full details here. Drawing from mythology, tarot, astrology, poetry, nature connection, art and alchemy - re/weaving them into creative practice and ways of being. Now fully booked, please enquire for waiting list or future events: info@rebeccajoysharp.com
FEBRUARY
Friday 6th
BLETHER: RS reading - *please note new time & venue, correct as shown here*: 6pm at the Steps Theatre, Central Library, Wellgate, Dundee. £10, details here.
MARCH
Saturday 28th
Untold Stories: with Arbroath2020+1 and hosted by Taylor Dyson, RS will be discussing and reading from Maiden Mother Mage, alongside a panel of other presenters. Free, 7pm. Webster Memorial Theatre, Arbroath. Details & booking here.
APRIL
Wednesday 22nd (+ four other dates):
Off the Rails Writing Group Block TWO, at Off the Rails Arthouse in Ladybank, Fife. Five fortnightly sessions, Wednesdays 6-9pm: 22nd April, 6th and 20th May, 3rd and 17th June. £160. Usually fully subscribed, one or two spots might be available: info@rebeccajoysharp.com
Saturday 25th
International Poetry Film Festival of Los Angeles: screening of Comma of Didymus, the film of RS' poem, made by Steve Smart. Other films & full details here.
MAY
Friday 29th
Norman MacCaig's Poetry with Marco Fazzini: Topping & Co, St Andrews, 7.30pm (doors 6.50pm). RS & others reading Norman MacCaig as part of this event for Marco Fazzini's new book, Norman MacCaig: Uno Dei Tanti Giorni. Tickets from £5, full details & booking here. Readers include Anna Crowe, Jean Johnstone and Colin Will, with Marco Fazzini.
JULY
Wednesday 29th
StAnza Poetry Festival, Poetry Walk: Glenrothes, 2pm (to 3.30pm). Meet inside the Kingdom Shopping Centre at the entrance to Rothes Halls Library (start & finish). Suitable for all ages. Free, with booking required here. Other enquiries: stanza@stanzapoetry.org
AUGUST
Wednesday 5th
Energy Ethics 2026: Infrastructures of Energy. Centre for Energy Ethics (University of St Andrews) conference, St Andrews and online. Details & Registration. RS is giving two presentations - Lines, Loops & Tentacles: poetic tools for the polycrisis is a sharing of the creative process behind and between a trilogy of poetry collections: Rough Currency (2021), Long Field Loop (2024) and the forthcoming Squid Complex (2027). Includes readings from all three collections, plus Q&A. Good Till The Close is a ‘fortune-telling’, poem-generating game with inbuilt obsolescence; taking its name from the stock market. The workshop draws from links between oil and financial forecasting, and the speculative, interrogative practice of tarot card reading. Participants create a collective tarot reading and a collective poem. Please note: another, fully public version of what RS will be sharing at the conference will take place later in the year, accessible for general audiences - details coming soon.
OCTOBER
Saturday 3rd
MAIDEN MOTHER MAGE. Final, homecoming performance: Haddington - St Mary's Kirk, 7pm. Supported by Haddington's History Society & partners. TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW - and full details of the project can be found here.
Wednesday 14th (+ four other dates)
Off the Rails Writing Group Block THREE, at Off the Rails Arthouse in Ladybank, Fife. Five fortnightly sessions, Wednesdays 6-9pm: 14th + 28th Oct; 11th + 25th Nov; 9th Dec. £160. Usually fully subscribed, but the group size is expanding for this Block - one or two spots might be available: info@rebeccajoysharp.com