Wigan Write Out Loud goes online tonight
Wigan Write Out Loud’s regular compere Ian Whiteley will be hosting an online open-mic poetry night on Thursday 30 April on Zoom. The online meeting is open from 7.45pm, and the start time will be 8.10pm. There are more details on the event’s Facebook page, and you can email Ian to book a slot at whiteley.ian@btinternet.com
30th April 2020
Louise Fazackerley is online guest poet at Sale Write Out Loud tonight
Louise Fazackerley - shortlisted in the Saboteur awards for best spoken word performer - will be the online guest poet at Sale Write Out Loud on Tuesday 21 April. Email organiser Sarah Pritchard at sarah60pegasus@gmail.com if you want to be involved. It starts at 7.30pm.
21st April 2020
The latest online event - a two-week, Stay-at-Home! festival
As the momentum of online events increases, with virtual open-mic nights springing up – see our review of one - a new, two-week online literature festival begins today, Friday 27 March, and goes on un...
27th March 2020
Sale Write Out Loud goes ahead at the Waterside on Tuesday
Andy N and Amanda Steel are the guest poets at Sale Write Out Loud at the Waterside arts centre, Sale on Tuesday 17 March. Entry is £3 to this open-mic poetry event, which starts at 8pm. More details ...
15th March 2020
Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club is cancelled
The scheduled Bolton Write Out Loud on Sunday 15 March at Bolton Socialist Club has been cancelled after the club scrapped all its events for the next month because of coronavirus safety concerns. Oth...
14th March 2020
Wigan Write Out Loud at the Old Courts tonight
It’s Wigan Write Out Loud at the Bailiff Bar at the Old Courts arts centre, Wigan, on Thursday 12 March. Sign up from 7.30pm for the free open-mic poetry, which starts at 8. More details and Map
12th March 2020
Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight
Members of Stockport Write Out Loud meet on Monday 9 March for a read-around of their poetry at Stockport art gallery. The open-floor event begins at 7pm and entry is a £1.50 donation. Each month a co...
9th March 2020
Leeds poetry anthology launched at city's Lit Fest
A poetry anthology about Leeds was launched at Leeds Minster on Wednesday as one of a lively list of poetry events during Leeds Lit Fest, from 4-8 March. The anthology, And The Stones Fell Open, publi...
5th March 2020
Write Out Loud Woking at the Lightbox tonight
Write Out Loud Woking returns to the Lightbox art gallery in Woking on Thursday 27 February. Sign up from 7.30pm for the 8pm start for this open-mic poetry event hosted by Greg Freeman and Rodney Wood...
27th February 2020
Write Out Loud at Marsden library tonight
Marsden Write Out Loud open-floor poetry group will be meeting at Marsden library, Peel Street, on Wednesday 19 February at 7.30pm. Everyone is welcome: read your own poems, someone else's or just com...
19th February 2020
Sale Write Out Loud at the Waterside tonight
Randall Horton is the guest poet at Sale Write Out Loud at the Waterside arts centre, Sale, on Tuesday 18 February. Sign up from 7.30pm for the open mic. It starts at 8pm, and entry is £3. More detail...
18th February 2020
Free Verse poetry book and magazine fair returns to London's Conway Hall
Free Verse, the poetry book and magazine fair, returns on Saturday 22 February, and to its traditional location in London’s Conway Hall. The book fair is now organised by the Poetry Society, and in ad...
16th February 2020
Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club tonight
It’s Bolton Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 16 February, with hosts Jeffarama! and Gordon Zola. Doors open at 7.30pm for this open-mic poetry event, and entry is £1 plus raffle. It s...
16th February 2020
Write Out Loud Woking at the Lightbox tonight
It's the first Write Out Loud Woking of 2020 on Thursday 30 January at the LIghtbox art gallery in Woking. Sign up for the open mic, hosted by Greg Freeman and Rodney Wood, from 7.30pm. Entry is free ...
30th January 2020
Dominic Berry at Sale Write Out Loud tonight
Dominic Berry is the guest poet at Write Out Loud Sale at the Waterside arts centre, Sale, on Tuesday 21 January. Entry is £3 to this open-mic poetry night and it starts at 7.30pm. More details and Ma...
21st January 2020
Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club tonight
It’s Bolton Write Out Loud at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 19 January. Join hosts Jeffarama! and Gordon Zola for this open-mic poetry event. Arrive 7.30pm for 8pm start. Entry £1 plus raffle. More ...
19th January 2020
Poems for the planet: environmental poetry group plans all-day fundraising reading
Environmental poetry group Poets for the Planet are staging Verse Aid: Poems for the Earth, a fundraising poetry event on Saturday 8 February at the Society of Authors in London that will include an a...
17th January 2020
Write Out Loud at Marsden library tonight
It’s Marsden Write Out Loud on Wednesday 15 January at Marsden library, in Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden. Entry is £2 to this monthly open-floor poetry group. Read your own poems, someo...
15th January 2020
Write Out Loud at Stockport art gallery tonight
Members of Stockport Write Out Loud will meet at Stockport art gallery on Monday 13 January to share poems. Entry is £1.50 and it starts at 7pm. Each month poets contribute to a collage poem, and you ...
13th January 2020
Write Out Loud Wigan at the Old Courts tonight
Write Out Loud Wigan is kicking off the new year with its first open-mic poetry night of 2020 at the Bailiffs Bar of the Old Courts arts centre, Crawford Street, Wigan on Thursday 9 January. This free...
9th January 2020
