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Expected · 2027
ForthcomingIndigo Sky at Noon: launch events
Publication of Ros’s new novel with Regal House Publishing is expected in 2027, and launch events will be announced here once confirmed. No dates or venues are set yet.
Workshops & events
Gatherings,
readings, returnings
Teaching, launch nights and long tables of new poems: the occasions around the work, gathered in one place.
On teaching
In the spirit of place
“It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.”
Elizabeth Bishop, At the Fishhouses
In Ros’s words, a workshop “is an invitation to write in the spirit of place, to listen closely, to look carefully, and to let light, sound, texture, and weather shape new poems.” Modelled on the workshops of Sharon Olds, the work is to step “beyond old habits and limitations, to experiment, and to engage in what Olds called pleasurable daring,” writing new poems, reading them aloud, and listening “with the writer of each poem speaking last.”
From Ros’s announcement of the 2026 generative poetry weekend at the Elizabeth Bishop House.
Elizabeth Bishop House · 2026
A house returned to poetry
At 624 White Street, a weekend of new poems began in the rooms and garden where Elizabeth Bishop lived during the 1930s and 1940s.
The Key West Literary Seminar acquired and restored the house as a gathering place for readers and writers. Ros’s generative weekend brought twelve poets to the house, writing together through prompts, reading aloud and guided response, a model borrowed from Sharon Olds’s workshop practice.
Looking ahead
What is coming
Workshops, readings, launches & panels
Archive
Most recent first
01
16–24 May 2026
RetreatComing to Our Senses
Arles & the Camargue · France
An eight-day gathering co-led with musician and naturalist David Rothenberg and poet Nadine Pinede: writing, deep listening, mindful movement and attention to the natural world.
02
20–22 February 2026
WorkshopFeel the Spirit: Generative Poetry Weekend
Elizabeth Bishop House · Key West
A small group wrote together in Bishop’s former home through prompts, reading aloud and guided response. Modelled on Sharon Olds’s workshop practice, the weekend placed new work, and pleasurable daring, at its centre.
03
3 February 2026
ReadingNo Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Books & Books at The Studios of Key West
A public reading and conversation for the return to print of Ros’s 1975 story collection, fifty years on.
04
27 February 2024
LaunchBone Whispers: Key West launch
Key West
Ros’s twentieth book was launched at home, in conversation with novelist Katrin Schumann.
05
26 February 2024
ConversationThe Poisoned Pen Podcast
Online · with Barbara Peters
A recorded conversation with Barbara Peters of the Poisoned Pen on the writing and release of Bone Whispers.
06
Late March 2023
ReadingCafé con Libros
Monroe County Library · Key West
A reading and question-and-answer afternoon centred on the novella Elena, Leo, Rose.
07
24 October 2019
Reading & signingWithout Her
Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore · Berkeley
A reading and signing for Without Her on Ros’s West Coast visit.
08
19 August 2019
Reading & signingWithout Her, in conversation
Book Passage · Corte Madera
Ros launched Without Her in conversation with novelist and editor Joseph Olshan.
09
18 December 2015
ConversationThe Lost Love Letters of Henri Fournier
Books & Books at The Studios of Key West
A pre-publication conversation about the new novel, with writer Jessica Argyle.
10
11–13 January 2013
Reading & panelsKey West Literary Seminar
San Carlos Institute · Key West
Ros read from Becoming George Sand, joined the “Re-imagining a Life” panel with Colm Tóibín, Jay Parini and Paul Hendrickson, and spoke with Tóibín, Julie Salamon and Pico Iyer on how far the facts can take a writer.
11
12 September 2012
ReadingDonaldson Writer-in-Residence reading
Blow Hall · College of William and Mary
A public reading of fiction and poetry during Ros’s return residency, followed by a reception with students and townspeople.
12
5–8 January 2006
PanelKey West Literary Seminar
San Carlos Institute · Key West
Ros appeared as a panelist for the seminar on adventure, travel and discovery, in the session “What’s a Nice Gal Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?”
Recurring & earlier work
The longer teaching life
Ros has led yearly poetry and prose workshops at The Studios of Key West and has appeared at the Key West Literary Seminar as panelist and moderator. With Rick Skwiot, she co-founded the Key West Writers Lab before 2012.
Her wider teaching biography records creative-writing workshops in the UK, the US, Spain and Australia. She has twice been a Creative Writing Fellow at the College of William and Mary, most recently in 2012.