Salt Cellar
As part of its tenth birthday celebrations next year, Salt Publishing will launch a network of ten Modern Writing Centres, - Salt Cellars. The centres will coordinate tours, readings and events for its authors and will also act as hubs for the development of its UK and Irish publishing plans. The initiative will support Salt’s authors through co-ordinated outreach programmes working with local gro...
30th November 2009
CPA Annual Poetry Contest
The Canadian Poetry Association has just announced the judge for its annual poetry writing contest. This year, the CPA is pleased to welcome publisher, author, and poet – Joe Blades, to judge the competition. An active member of the BlackTop Motorcycle Gang writers’ group, President of the Canadian ...
30th November 2009
Express Excess
Express Excess is the ever popular, fortnightly show that has been running at the Enterprise in Camden for the past 11 years; and on Wednesday, 2nd December and Wednesday 16th, there will be two great...
29th November 2009
Beat - New Weekly Poetry Night in Soho
Situated in the becoming facilities of Peter Parker’s Rock n Roll Club, on the legendary Denmark Street in the heart of Soho, the night o...
29th November 2009
New Titles from Flarestack
In 2009, Flarestack Poets, the new imprint from Flarestack Publishing, ran a pamphlet competition to choose the first three titles from the new press. Judged by Meredith Andrea and Jacqui Rowe, co-dir...
28th November 2009
Hawddamor!
If you think your work has what it takes to win then you might like to enter Cardiff's International Poetry Competition. This is one of the UK’s leading poetry competitions and offers one of the large...
28th November 2009
Journal of British & Irish Innovative Poetry Launch
Wednesday, 9th December at 4pm sees the launch of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry at the University of Salford. The journal aims to provide a home for critical articles on the hist...
27th November 2009
Little Machines
‘Little Machines’ by Simon Rennie (Write Out Loud’s very own - Siren) was officially launched at Manchester Central Library on the 26th November. And you can read Darren Thomas’s review by follo...
27th November 2009
2010 Writing Courses in Wales
Fancy freeing up your creative juices with like-minded people? Want to pick up a pen, let your imagination wander, cast your words to the winds?
Ever thought of treating yourself to a writ...
25th November 2009
wordPLAY on Twisted Christmas
The time has come for the last wordPLAY of the year, and you can expect the usual laid-back, all-welcoming atmosphere and general jollity of the wordPLAY audience.
‘Twisted Christmas’ is the loose th...
25th November 2009
Peace in the Red Shed
The guest speaker at December’s Red Shed Readings in Wakefield, on Thursday December 3rd, is not only an amazing writer, he is also local.
David Peace, the author of Red Riding Trilogy, The Damned Un...
25th November 2009
Write to Speak
Yorkshire's first theatre based spoken word night will be returning to the studio space at Hull Truck theatre on Wednesday 9th December featuring Byron Vincent and Molly Naylor, hosted by Joe Hakim an...
25th November 2009
Poetry in Cardiff's Promised Land
The Promised Land in Cardiff is the venue for the Poetry on Tap reading series, the next one of which is on Sunday 13th December from 2pm.
Poetry on Tap is Cardiff’s newest monthly poetry and spoken...
25th November 2009
Winner of John Tripp Award 2009
The 2009 John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry came to a head on Thursday 19 November as Academi hosted the much anticipated Grand Final in Cardiff. An unprecedented number of supporters, writers, lit...
25th November 2009
Ó Bhéal and The Whitehouse - Tonight
Ó Bhéal - Irish for 'by word of mouth' or 'of the mouth' (pronounced 'Oh veil'), is a weekly, open-mic, event for all forms of original poetry, in Cork.
There is a different guest poet every week, ...
23rd November 2009
Call For Submissions
The 10th issue of Conversation Poetry Quarterly (Winter 2009/10) is now open to submissions.
Many thoughtful, experimental, social and philosophical poets have graced the pages of CPQ since 2007 and t...
20th November 2009
Home Sweet Home
Home is where the heart is, we say – but how does ‘home’ affect your poetry?
Home, and its inspiration for your writing, is the theme for The Poetry School’s writing workshop to be held on Saturday, ...
20th November 2009
Write Out Loud's November News Letter
We've got a new web team in place and they are already making an impact with the site having record numbers of hits, contributions and events - 300 NEW...
18th November 2009
Meet The Web Team
‘Write Out Loud’ has a new online team to help bring you a better news service; more gigs that are better managed; a whole new Features section and more support, particularly for new members, th...
18th November 2009
Tagging Blogs
Our technical team have been working hard to provide you with a couple of new features to enhance your enjoyment of WOL.
Firstly - you can now ‘tag’ your poems and/or blogs with key words, and search...
17th November 2009
Spotlight on Lancaster
This Friday, November 20th, sees The Spotlight back in Lancaster at The Storey Auditorium, on Meeting House Lane, as it’s time once more for this popular monthly event of poetry, prose, and music.
Co...
16th November 2009
Teacher in The Spotlight
According to W.B. Yeats - ‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire’. Most of us have an inspirational teacher or two that we remember with fondness, but not many have the op...
14th November 2009
Small Publishers Fair
This weekend RGAP – the research group for artists publications, have organised an international fair celebrating books by contemporary artists, writers, poets, composers, book designers, and their pu...
12th November 2009
SLAMbassadors 2009
Benjamin Zephaniah and Scroobius Pip join the Poetry Society and BBC Blast in celebrating some of the most outstanding young voices from around the country.
With identity as their theme, over 200 you...
11th November 2009
Third Derwent Poetry Festival
The 2009 Derwent Poetry Festival will take place at Masson Mills, Matlock Bath over the weekend of 20th-22nd November.
The festival launches nine new titles from poetry publishing house, Templar, ...
10th November 2009
Poetry Mongolia
The Poetry Mongolia project is a collaboration between English and Mongolian women poets, including Dulmaa Shagdar, Suglegmaa Hurgaa, Ulziitugs Luvsandorj , Munkhsetseg Gompildoo and Oyundari Tsaga...
6th November 2009
Hull Holds Larkin Festival
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/City-unveil-P...
6th November 2009
Manchester's "unsung" Seeks New Work
"unsung" is a FREE monthly magazine that helps promote all the unsung, underrated, underground, unheard voices of Manchester. They publish prose, poetry, essays, pretty much anything that is good writ...
5th November 2009
Ambit's 200 WORDS competition!
1st prize: £500
2nd prize: £200
3rd ...
5th November 2009
Cinnamon Press - Call for Submissions
3rd November 2009
Blankpages Issue 16 OUT NOW!
.... and this month is a poetry special featuring Manchester's queer vegan performance poet, Dominic Berry, whilst Justin Walsh serves up absurdities and nonsense. There are poetic treats from John Le...
2nd November 2009
Knit one, purl one.
On Sunday 22nd November the Knitted Poem arrives in Manchester, and with it comes
a rare opportunity to see inside Manchester's Edwardian water palace - Victoria Baths.
The Poetry Society’s giant c...
2nd November 2009
Lancaster - Performance Writing Workshop
at The Storey Creative Industries Centre, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster LA1 1TH
Facilitator: Ann Wilson -
Ann is the regular host ...
2nd November 2009
New Regular Poetry Event in Cardiff
1st November 2009
