A woman standing at a microphone on a festival stage with dramatic lighting. 
Photograph by Fernando Manoso.

Harriet Truscott is a poet, editor and arts creator.

Photo by Fernando Manoso

Harriet’s poetry is widely published in UK poetry journals.

She has co-curated two successful literary festivals, hosted open mic events, and performed her own work.

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ArtfulScribe Lit Fest 2024, Southampton, 8-10 March

It looks like the ArtfulScribe Lit Fest 2024 is going to be an amazing event, kicking off on International Women’s Day with a headline event hosted and curated by Joelle Taylor. Join me on the Sunday morning for a short set telling the remarkable story of poet and refugee Concha Méndez through my translations of…

Notts Book Arts Fair

8th October 2022, 11pm-5pm, St Leonard’s Community Centre, Nottingham Books can be more than black text on a series of white pages. How does it change our reading experience if a book has to be unfolded and slowly discovered? If it’s made out of something other than conventional paper? Or if it’s as much a…

Music and words from 16th century Italy

Friday 21 October 2022, 18.30-19.30, St Clement’s Church, Cambridge I’ll be joining St Radegund’s Voices again for an evening of music and words. This choir specialises in early choral music for women’s voices – and if that sounds like a niche field, think of the huge amount of music written for the choirs of convents…