Education
Art Psychotherapy MA, Goldsmiths University (Pass)
CELTA, International House London (Pass)
Creative Entrepreneurship MA, UEA London (Distinction)
English Literature BA (Hons), University of East Anglia (2:1)
Art Foundation Diploma, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Collections
Circles, Burning Eye Books, November 2019
She Grrrowls: The Anthology, Burning Eye Books, September 2017
Nasty Little Intro, Nasty Little Press, July 2014
Page – Print
One day I’ll write about the rooftop swimming pools like we own them, in Verdigris: Poetry of Decay, 2026
Before We Kiss, in Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets, 2023
What Would Marie Kondo Do?, in ‘Mingled Voices 7’ Proverse Poetry, 2023
Dali, Anthology Volume 19, 2022
my name in an english accent, in The Rialto, 2021
Apology for Yarl’s Wood and Welcome, in La Questione Romantica, 2021
A Portrait of The Hungry Caterpillar as a Body Positivity Icon, in ‘Mingled Voices 5’ Proverse Poetry, 2020
Cam Girl and xxx, in HerWords, The Black Mountain Press, 2021
Trapeze Bars, Anthology Volume 15, 2020
The Knitted Womb, Grindstone International Poetry Prize Anthology, 2020
Toy Truck, in Nine Cloud Journal, Volume 1, 2020
Monkey Bars (Spanish translation), in Muñecas: Antologia Internacional Contra el Abuso Infantil, 2017
Pandora, Beltane (Three Drops from a Cauldron), 2017
Monkey Bars and Computer Generated Images, Spies 4 Life, 2016
Monkey Bars in Popshot, Outsider Issue, 2015
The Unlatching in Hunger Poetry Anthology, 2015
Sinking Ships in Over Land, Over Sea (Five Leaves Press), 2015
Vultures in ‘Writing in the Blackout’ anthology (Keats House Poets), 2014 Circles in the Newhaven Journeyman, Issue 3: Expressing the Voice Dorothy and Coffee in DreamCatcher 28
Ladybird in Welney Poetry Anthology
It is with the heart one loves… in Brittle Star Issue 31/32
Computer Generated Images and #fridge in Monkey Kettle #38
The Movement of Hands in Artemispoetry, Issue 9
I am No Better in Workshop: UEA Undergraduate Anthology 2011
The Mirror in Poetry Rivals Collection 2010: A New Dawn Breaks
Flowers and Computer Generated Images in The Delinquent: Issues 13 & 18
Skin in Skookum Boom magazine
A selection of poems in RedInk Magazine
Page – Online
The Sevillana in Pulesebeat 07, 2024
Blue in Full House Literary Journal, 2023
Sea Urchin and Self-care in Aayo Magazine, 2022
Tattooing the Moon, in Untitled: Voices Issue Three, 2021
Dad and My Father from a New Angle, in The Good Dadhood Project, 2021
What I Didn’t Know Before, in The Journal, 2021
Escape, in 42Subs, 2020
Leaving, in The Stare’s Nest, 2017
Looking at the same things, in Art Ascent, 2017
Looking at the same things, in Tales from the Forest, 2017
Factor 30, in Ink, Sweat & Tears, 2015
Vultures in ‘Writing in the Blackout’ anthology (Keats House Poets), 2014
It looks like rain, The Hourglass and Sympathy Card in Agenda Broadsheet 21
Maps in Annexe Magazine, 2013
Popular Opinion and I’m going to kill myself… in Bad Robot Poetry
Maps and Boys & Girls in Kumquat Poetry
The Very Hungry Caterpillar in Myths of the Near Future
Cake, Our First Christmas, and Hope in Something Fine
Blind Date in Poet & Geek
Fancy Dress, Perfection and Imaginary, Fantastic, Bizarre in Sleepy Orange
Flash Fiction:
42 Stories Anthology, 2020
Exposure in Ink, Sweat & Tears
Stage
Big Trouble, 12 Degrees Micropub, 2024
Bi+ Lines Poetry Anthology Launch, Gay’s The Word, 2024
R.A.P. Party, The Albany, Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG, 2022
Canvas & Cream, 8 London Rd, London SE23 3HF, 2022
Poetry Party with Simon Mole and Gecko, Stephen’s House and Gardens, London N3 3QE, 2021
Spork (online), 2020
Find The Right Words, The Western Pub, 70 Western Rd, Leicester LE3 0GA, 2020
3Cs Open Mic, Corstorphine Community Centre12 Kirk Loan, Corstorphine, Edinburgh EH12 7HD, 2020
Last Poet Standing, Last Pub Standing, 27-29 King St, Norwich NR1 1PD, 2019
Burning Eye Presents, The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St, London WC2H 9BX, 2019
The Rich Nothing Book Launch, 49 Tanner St, London SE1 3PL, 2019
A Lovely Word, 2019, Everyman Theatre, 5-11 Hope Street, L1 9BH
Sabrina Benaim support, Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, London W12 7LJ, 2018
ProperGanda, 6 & 8 Manor Road, N16 5SA London, 2017
Listen Softly London, Royal George Charing Cross, 133 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EA, 2017
Grito de Mujer, Patio Vesubio, Calle Frailes, 6, 14002, Córdoba, Spain, 2017
destination:ink, BluJaz Café, 11 Bali Ln, Singapore 189848, 2016
Dance, Drama and Stories of War, Rose Theatre, 24-26 High St, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1HL, 2016
Burn After Reading Presents…, 2016
Sexology Season, The Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd., London NW1 2BE, 2015
Feminism in London, Hilton London Metropole, 225 Edgware Rd, London W2 1JU, 2015
One Story, Our Voice, Spotlight, 30 Hay Currie Street E14 6GN London, 2015
Chocolate Poetry Club, Communion Bar, 29-33 Camberwell Church Street , basement SE5 8TR London, 2015
Voices of Redemption, Park Theatre, 13 Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 3JP, 2015
The Place for Poetry, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW, 2015
World’s End Poetry, at Chelsea Theatre, 7, World’s End Place, London SW10 0DR, 2015
Open Generation at Autograph ABP, Rivington Pl, London EC2A 3BA, 2015
LoveArts at The Gallery Cafe, St. Margarets House Settlement, 21 Old Ford Rd., Bethnal Green, London E2 9PL, 2013
Reclaim the Night at Institute of Education SU Bar, Level 4, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, 2013
Sunday Circus at Proud Camden, 8 Victoria Embankment, London WC2R 2AB, 2013
The Writing Room Showcase at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E1 6LA, 2013
S.W.A.M&P at Vibe Gallery, 100 Clements Road London SE16 4DG, 2013
Bang Said the Gun May Residency at The Roebuck, 50 Great Dover St, London SE1 4YG, 2013
Scratch That Hackney at Hackney Picturehouse Attic, 270 Mare St, London E8 1HE, 2013
Word’s a Stage at The Gallery Cafe, Bethnal Green, St. Margarets House Settlement, 21 Old Ford Rd., Bethnal Green, London E2 9PL, 2012
Bad Robot Poetry Launch Night at The Birdcage, 23 Pottergate, Norwich NR2 1DS, 2012
Carmina’s Poetry Tease at The Showcase, 63-66 Hatton Garden Fifth Floor Suite 23, London EC1N 8LE, 2012
Finger in the Pie Cabaret at Madame JoJo’s, 8-10 Brewer St, London W1F 0SE, 2012
Late Shift at The Sainsbury’s Centre for Visual Arts, Norfolk Rd, Norwich NR4 7TJ, 2011
ART SHOP COLLECTIVE at AAA Studios
PoetryJam at The Tea Box, 7 Paradise Rd, Richmond TW9 1RX
Cabaret events at The Birdcage, 23 Pottergate, Norwich NR2 1DS
Support for Kate Tempest at The Bicycle Shop, 17 St Benedicts St, Norwich NR2 4PE
Word of Mouth at Norwich Arts Centre, 51 St Benedicts St, Norwich NR2 4PG
The People’s Mass at Limelight Church
Feminist Midsummer Party at Balham Bowls Club, 7-9 Ramsden Rd, London SW12 8QX
Speech Motion at The Horse & Groom, 28 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3NZ
Satellites Talking at The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3BL
Word Up Walthamstow at Ye Olde Rose & Crown, 53 Hoe St, London E17 4SA
Get on the Soapbox at various venues in Norwich
Farrago at various venues in London
Festivals
She Grrrowls: The Festival, 2022
All in The Mind Festival, Basingstoke, 2022
The Living Record Festival, (online) 2021
Lambeth Country Show, 2021
WOW Festival, 2018
Hastings Fringe Festival, 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2017-2019
BBC Slam at Edinburgh Festival, Heat 3, 2015
BoomTown Fair, 2015
Larmer Tree Festival, 2015
Lovebox, 2015
The Fling Festival, 2015
Festival of Ideas, 2015
Bestival, 2014
In The Woods, 2014
Camp Bestival, 2014
Secret Garden Party, 2014
Latitude Festival, 2014
Words with Edge Festival, Red Door Studios, East Ham, 2014
The Last Word, The Roundhouse Studio, 2013
Larmer Tree Festival, 2013
Events Production
Carmina regularly runs She Grrrowls – a monthly feminist arts night in London. Whilst studying English Literature at the University of East Anglia, Carmina co-managed events as part of the Literature Society. She then ran her first solo event in 2012 when studying an MA in Creative Entrepreneurship, and hosted a launch event for Poetry&Paint. Since its birth in 2013, She Grrrowls has been at various venues in London, featured at Goldsmith University’s The Place for Poetry, at Women of the World in Southbank, Attic Arts Club and Leamington Spa Poetry Festival. In 2019, She Grrrowls features at Edinburgh Fringe Festival with PBH Free Fringe for the third time. The She Grrrowls anthology of ten of our poets was published by Burning Eye Books in 2017, and this toured England with thanks to Arts Council Lottery Funding in 2018 The book is listed in the top 100 books of 2017 by The Poetry School. 2022 saw ‘She Grrrowls: The Festival’ – a day of workshops, panels and performances at The Albany in Deptford as part of Lewisham’s London Borough of Culture Award. It was based at Catford Mews between 2023-2024 and recent pop-up events have included Somerset House and the National Poetry Library Special Editions.
Awards
Shaneeka is not your friend anymore, Highly Commended, for Coverstory Books Poetry Competition, 2024
Self-portrait as a mermaid, Volume 5 of Heroines Anthology Longlist, 2024
Dali, shortlisted for Anthology Poetry Award, 2022
Longlisted for the Out-Spoken Prize for Performance Poetry, 2022
Shaneeka is not Your Friend Anymore, Longlisted for Lucent Dreaming’s Poetry Prize, 2022
Trapeze Bars, shortlisted for Anthology Poetry Award, 2020
Computer Generated Images, The Poetry Archive Top 20 Poems, 2020
The Knitted Womb, longlisted for the Grindstone International Poetry Prize, 2020
Fire Fighter, CandleLit Poetry Competition, 2020
Spread the Word – Life Writing Prize: top 10% of the 964 entries, 2019
Longlisted for the Out-Spoken Prize for Performance Poetry, 2018
Longlisted for the inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships, 2017
Runner-up, Emily Dickinson ‘A Quiet Passion’ Competition, Poetry School, 2017
Highly Commended for Ideas Tap’s Sky Arts Scholarship, 2015
Open Generation, Spoken Word Competition Winner, 2015
Genesis Slam – joint first place, 2nd October 2014
Bang Said the Gun, 22nd May 2014
Winner of Poetry Rivals 2013 with ‘Paradise’, awarded 2014
Winner of Pangaea Poetry Reporter Brief on Ideas Tap
Commended for the Poetry Kit competition with ‘Bethnal Green’, 2014
Shortlisted for Spread the Word competition, 2013
Shortlisted for New Era at the Lyric Lounge, 2013
Long-listed for Young Poet Laureate for London – final 20 ‘Podium Poets’, 2013
Shortlisted for Lyric Lounge Producers on Ideas Tap, 2013
Shortlisted for Ideas Tap Project Mentoring (Performing Arts), 2012
Shortlisted for Ideas Tap Fund Innovators and Bush Bounce, 2011
Best Loss Poem at Glam Slam 2011
Top 50 Poetry Rivals 2010
Slam Idol Contest 20
Farrago Zoo Award: Best Debut Performance 2006
Conferences, Interviews and Panels
Carmina has chaired interviews and panels as part of both Pangaea Poetry, and Home Cooking (an Apples and Snakes podcast series), as well as at the launch of Poetry&Paint, where she also curated an exhibition. She have partaken in conferences and discussions such as Open Generation’s Migrants’ Rights event in 2014, The Place for Poetry, Goldsmiths at University of London, and at an event on FGM at The Wellcome Collection, following a commission as part of its Sexology Season. She has also been featured on radio at Reel Rebels Radio and The Roundhouse, and on television at London360.
Copy & Content Writing
Carmina regularly writes website content and blogs for various industries. Experience within the publishing industry includes copywriting content for Penned in the Margins whilst working as an assistant, copy-editing poetry anthologies with First Story between 2015 and 2017, and B2B content for books published by Mud Press.
Workshops
Over 60s Writing Group Facilitator, Holborn House, 2021
‘The Femme Canon’, The Albany, Spread the Word, 2018
‘Poetry and Activism: What’s the Issue with “Issue Poetry”?’, The Albany, 2014
‘Poetry Potting Shed’ with Michael Rosen and Niall O’Sullivan, 2014
‘From Page to Stage’ at Larmar Tree Festival, 2013
Poet Shadow for ‘Shake the Dust’, Apples and Snakes, 2012
COLLECTIVES:
Podium Poets
Burn After Reading
Roundhouse Poetry Collective: Kid Glove
OTHER PROJECTS:
Carmina’s Cantata, 2021-2022: A podcast series, available on Spotify, exploring spoken word and music, developed with Arts Council funding as part of Developing Your Creative Practice.
You Press: Carmina worked on projects ‘One Story: Our Voice’ and ‘Voices of Redemption’ where we worked with those who are homeless, and ex-offenders, in order to tell their stories through poetry.
Open Generation: Carmina wrote a piece for Migrants’ Rights called ‘Apology for Yarl’s Wood’ about the immigration deportation centre, focusing on one woman’s true story as an apology piece in the face of UK politics in 2014, where in the lead the the general election, the only positive and progressive rhetoric we had came from the Green Party.
Poetry Potting Shed: Carmina worked at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, running workshops with Michael Rosen and Niall O’Sullivan with primary school students over three days.
Shake the Dust: Carmina worked as a Shadow Poet for the East of England with Ross Sutherland, where they worked with Year 9 students to help them create group poetry pieces for a competition with both regional and national finals.
The Writing Room: Carmina took part in a series of workshops with a range incredible writers; it culminated in a showcase at Rich Mix. Various members of The Writing Room, from different years, were fortunate enough to be fully funded to attend an Arvon course, where we worked with Inua Ellams and Warsan Shire for a week.
Word’s a Stage: Carmina worked with Malika Booker to write and perform a commissioned 20-minute poetry piece. This was later published in the Newhaven Journeyman as text.
PRESS:
Devil’s Haircut: Carmina Masoliver’s Nasty Little Intro #8, John Field, 8th April 2015
Carmina Masoliver – In Her Own Words at Listen Softly London
Sabotage Reviews: Nasty Little Intro
Night of Celebration Proves The Media’s Woeful Coverage of the Literary Underground
