Wales Announces New National Poet
Following their recent rugby Grand Slam victory, the Welsh have experienced a surge in national pride. As the feelgood factor spreads across Wales, areas outside the rugby field are expected to benefit from this recent win. It couldn’t be a better time to be Welsh. Nefyn-born pop singer Duffy stormed the charts, the successes of Torchwood and Dr Who is making Cardiff the premier destination f...
31st March 2008
Lived it? Dreamt it? Write it!
The second Bruntwood Playwriting Competition for the Royal Exchange aims to find new plays, new playwrights and new voices.
If you've never written a play before, log onto www.writeaplay.co.uk
to find all you need to inspire and direct you; from how to structure
the scenes to how to develop cha...
31st March 2008
Win £10k with your poetry
entries: 1st August 2008. The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University is launching The Manchester Poetry Prize - a new l...
29th March 2008
Top Authors Heading To Wirral's BookFest
The festival - which takes ...
28th March 2008
Hovis In Wonderland
27th March 2008
Short Story Submissions Required Urgently
27th March 2008
Bank Street Writers Poetry Competition 2008
Poems: up to 40 lines, any subject and style.
Judge: Linda Chase
Linda Chase is an American poet, living in Manchester, who teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and r...
27th March 2008
Wigan Words ‘08 Literary Festival
The Leigh and Wigan Words ‘08 Literary Festival is on us - Check our gig guide for full details of events.
As ever, there will be something for you all this year. Jim Eldridge, perhaps the most prolifi...
25th March 2008
Revolution Now!
The 2008 workshop will be the first stage of G...
23rd March 2008
Voodoo Word Circus Wants You
Auditions: Sunday 13 April, The Round, Lime St, Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 2pm.
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22nd March 2008
North West Writers Surgery / Coaching Sessions
Are you a new writer* based in the North West of England? If so, would you like a one-to-one writer’s surgery/coaching session to discuss your work and your ambitions? Commonword is launching a free...
22nd March 2008
Suddenly It’s Hovis!
19th March 2008
They Want Your Stuff For Folk’s Sake!
For Folk’s Sake is a new zine dedicated to the current folk scene, and will be launched in conjuncti...
14th March 2008
Apples & Snakes Move HQ
12th March 2008
Bluecoat to Re-Open!
On Saturday 15 March 2008, after a £12.5m redevelopment, the Bluecoat will throw open its doors to the public for the first time since early 2005. Full details can be found at http://www.thebluecoat....
11th March 2008
Huddersfield Literature Festival
The Huddersfield Literature Festival is taking place between 7th and 16th of March.
Full details of the festival can be found at http://www.litfest.org.uk/ but events include:
Joanne Harris, ...
8th March 2008
John Oxendale R.I.P.
Poet-puppeteer John Oxendale died suddenly but peacefully in his sleep on the 27th January, 2008 at the age of 55. With his company, Rubber Pig Productions, Jon was a poet and performer with a differe...
6th March 2008
Wanted NW Writers and Artists
We are running six short-term residencies across Lancashire prisons during May 2008 fo...
4th March 2008
Students - Win A Trip To France And £100
4th March 2008
Rare as a Green Bitch – International women’s week event
Weds 5th March at Contact Theatre, 7.00 pm. Free event (tickets from box office 0161 274 0600)
Visuals, music improv and spoken word from Lisa B, Bunty Looping, Urban Geisha, Caro Snatch, Jaheda Choud...
2nd March 2008
Hovis Triumphs in Dead Poets Slam!
Poets Slam in Totnes and emerged triumphant!
Nobody in the audience confessed to knowing Hovis but now they do.El...
2nd March 2008
Poem of the month: Double Negative
Sally Jenkinson’s poem challenges us to find the positives in the negatives, the tenderness in its abrasion.
Last month's poem of the month writer, Catherine Smith, has chosen Sally’s piece because “i...
2nd March 2008
Double negative
Last month's poem of the month writer,Catherine Smith, has chosen this month's poem. Catherine says,"I really loved Sally Jenkinson's poem, it is resonant, sexy, brave. Great stuff." Find out more...
1st March 2008
