Page v Performance - Fight!
Sympathetic Sybil is Write Out Loud's own Agony Aunt, send your problem to sybil@writeoutloud.net
hi yer sybness - i'm a great performance poet – but them proper poets say me brillyant work is no good on the page - it's rote to be performed so why do i need to bovver with finks like grammar and spelling and punkchewnation
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30th June 2010
O woe is me for I shall July
Is the earth in your 4th house causing you anxiety until the milky way in your heart sector gives way to mars meaning you're once again at one with the universe or, at least this galaxy, until the seventeenth of the month, when wispas of impropriety can be hurtful and neptune snaffles your curly-...
30th June 2010
Alan Plater - An Obituary and Personal Remembrance by Julian Jordon
Alan Frederick Plater, CBE, FRSL (15th April, 1935 – 25th June, 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British Television from the 1960s to the 2000s; or so it ...
29th June 2010
Retreat to Rabbie Burns' Country - 13th - 17th September
The ideal retreat for writers in need of time, inspiration and like-minded company
When the leaves are just beginning to turn a trillion shades of autumn gold, the people at writing u...
29th June 2010
Excess Memories
This month's poem was chosen by Winston Plowes, last months winner.
Winston says, "Dave takles an unsavoury subject with great skill here. He uses rhyme and raw observations to bring the reader...
28th June 2010
Edinburgh Fringe
We know that many of you go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August – both to entertain and to be entertained, and we’d like to hear all about it.
If you’ve got a show together that you’ll b...
28th June 2010
Doin' Moon
You won’t want to miss this opportunity to experience an adventurous and ground-breaking collaboration of music and poetry in a unique live performance at the Contact Theatre on Oxford Road in Manc...
28th June 2010
Two New Competitions!
The First Malton Literature Festival has launched two new competitions and they’re looking for poems and short stories from both adults and children.
The Malton Literature Festival Open Creativ...
28th June 2010
Sale Summer Soiree
24th June 2010
Publishing Success for WOL Poets
Not one, but two Write Out Loud poets have just had their work published by new digital publishing company -Philistine Press!
Rob Sherman’ ‘Valve Works’ takes the human body as its theme, mixin...
22nd June 2010
WOL Move to new ISP
The site has now moved to the new Internet Service Provider and we apologise for any minor glitches you may have experienced.
Our technical team have addressed the minor problems thrown up by t...
20th June 2010
They F*** You Up...
Writing to Speak presents a special two-day event - ‘They F*** You Up ...’ in the Studio space at Hull Truck Theatre, on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July, 2010, as part of the Larkin25 Festival.
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20th June 2010
'Page One' - Internet Radio Literature
Page One is back but the Friday show is now on at 8pm.
On this weeks show includes: Tony Stringfellow interviews 'Purple Patch' king, Geoff Stevens (pictured), there's more of the Ancient Marin...
17th June 2010
Upon the Quality of Love
This month's poem was chosen by last month's winner, Graham Sherwood. Graham says, "When I first read it I instantly saw that (in my opinion) it was the best piece of work that she has ever written...
16th June 2010
Spotlight Performance Workshop
Spotlight are holding a Performance Workshop this Friday afternoon, 18th June, at The Storey in Lancaster.
Hosted by the incomparable Tony Walsh, the workshop aims to help you develop confidenc...
14th June 2010
Wanted - Poet Laureate
The search is on to find Warwick’s Poet Laureate for 2010/2011, and if you’re over 18 and live in Warwickshire – it could be you!
Warwick Words is holding its seventh annual competition to find...
11th June 2010
Cardiff Poetry Winners!
The results of the 2010 Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition were announced at a celebratory lunch at the renowned St. David’s Hotel & Spa in Cardiff Bay on Wednesday 9 June. The 2010 c...
11th June 2010
Creative Works Competition
Aesthetica Magazine is inviting all artists, writers and poets to submit their work for entry into the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2010.
Now in its third year, the Creative Works Comp...
11th June 2010
Poetry Rivals 2010
Poetry Rivals are inviting entries for their biggest ever open competition, and by sharing your poetry with them you could find yourself the winner of a publishing contract with the U.K.s largest p...
4th June 2010
Cryptic Poem 006: Finches and Toddlers
Okay folks. After last month’s religiously contentious, but tonally facetious offering (those of you who solved it will have known what I mean, the rest of you can pretend you knew by reading the s...
3rd June 2010
Drama and Memoirs in Spain
In the Write Light are hosting creative writing workshops this July and September, that will not only help improve your writing skills, but also be memorable events in themselves.
Best selling ...
1st June 2010
The High IQ Haiku World Cup
Haiku has proved to be a very popular form of poetry here on WOL, and there are quite a few football supporters too, so what could be better than a project that seeks to combine the beautiful game ...
1st June 2010
The 2010 Book & Pamphlet Competition
The Poetry Business is now inviting entries for its 24th Book & Pamphlet Competition, to be judged by award winning poet Simon Armitage. And, thanks to sponsorship from the National Association for...
1st June 2010
The Beverley Festival
This year’s Beverley Festival runs during the weekend of 18th – 20th June, and will bring together a top class list of musical artists, together with some of the top names from the world of the wri...
1st June 2010
Poetry Ace
Wimbledon and The Poetry Trust have announced the first ever ‘Championships Poet’.
Throughout Wimbledon fortnight (21st June – 4th July), poet Matt Harvey will create a poem a day on all things...
1st June 2010
Picnic at Porlock
Saturday, September 11th
as part of the Porlock Literature Festival 2010
(Thurs 9th– Sunday 12thSeptember 2010)
we’d like to invite your Poetry Group ...
1st June 2010
Oh June, you make my heart go boom!
Hello, hello, and welcome. And, crikey isn't it a scorcher. The yards to the fore of the village inns echo with the sounds of vomitting yorks, and the delicate thwack of leather striking buttock ...
1st June 2010
Ten into five will go
Pick 10 people who have been important in your life: an amazing teacher, a popstar you emulated when your were a toddler, the noisy nieghbour you want dead, etc.
Write a stanza about each...
1st June 2010
Write Light, Travel Light
1st June 2010
Where the cows go syphilitic
Anne Sexton – Again And Again And Again
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1st June 2010
The poetry scene in the South West
The poetry scene in the South West has always been pretty lively, although if you talk to some of the stalwarts Bristol performance poetry in the late '80's and early '90's, they will tell you that...
1st June 2010
