THE DEADLINE FOR WRITE OUT LOUD'S BIG ANNIVERSARY POETRY COMPETITION IS GETTING CLOSER!
The 11 April deadline for entering Write Out Loud’s 2025 poetry competition to mark this website’s 20th anniversary is getting closer. Have you entered yet? Don't leave it too late! The judge is celebrated Bloodaxe Books editor and anthologist, Neil Astley, and the theme is ‘Echoes’- a theme that is open to your own interpretation. The first prize is £500, second place £250, and third place £50. Entries are via the website onl...
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Fiona Larkin has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition with ‘Absence has a Grammar’, which was described by judges Romalyn Ante, John McA...
24th Mar 2025 8:47 pm
Bloodaxe … what an arresting name for a poetry publisher. I may have first come across Neil Astley’s name when my wife gave me the second anthology in...
10th Feb 2025 12:52 pm
The Write Out Loud team has perhaps been more focused on our 20th anniversary and fundraising poetry competition than the recent World Poetry Day. Mea...
30th Mar 2025 10:03 pm
Third and final in our masterclass series, is Matt Abbott's workshop in which he provides a number of triggers for writing about personal history, one...
31st Mar 2025 9:31 pm
Following Anthony Anaxagorou's mind-stretching masterclass, re-released last week, we've now re-launched Caroline Bird's workshop, giving you a whole ...
24th Mar 2025 11:59 am
In October last year a unique creative venture involving Marsden-born poet laureate Simon Armitage, his LYR band and Marsden Mechanics was launched. T...
10th Mar 2025 4:17 pm
This first full-length collection by Cardiff-based poet Emily Cotterill follows on from her debut poetry pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants published...
13th Mar 2025 12:00 am
Maggie Harris was born in Guyana and now lives in Broadstairs, Kent. She has won the Guyana Prize for Literature, was regional winner of the Commonwea...
27th Mar 2025 11:05 pm
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