Charlotte Oliver is an Ilkley Literature Festival New Northern Poet 2023 and was Lead Artist for the Yorkshire Coast on Spoken Word Power 2024. Published widely in journals and anthologies including Candlestick Press’ Christmas Walks, she has been placed in a number of competitions including Wirral Poetry Prize, the Patricia Eschen Poetry Prize 2022 and Wetherby Festival Poetry Competition. Big Ideas by the Sea 2024 Festival Poet, her debut pamphlet is How To Be A Dressing Gown (Dreich). Poetry commissions include work for the BBC, Scarborough Film Festival and North Yorkshire Moors National Park. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and read at a number of events around the country. She is Poet in Residence at Scarborough’s South Cliff Gardens.

Charlotte regularly leads poetry writing workshops. She is one of The Poetry Society‘s Poets in Schools, working with both primary and secondary pupils. Charlotte also facilitates poetry workshops with a number of adult community groups including MIND and Carers Plus, as well as running family drop-in sessions.