Café Writers Poetry Competition
The Café Writers Open Poetry competition 2010 is open and poems can be submitted until 30th November 2010.
Prizes:
The 'Funniest Poem', not winning another prize, will receive £150 The Norfolk Prize of £100 will be awarded to the best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident not winning another prize.
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31st July 2010
The 2010 Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition
To enter this competition you must be a member of the Poetry Society and a member of a Poetry Stanza on the closing date – Friday, 10th September, 2010.
The theme for the 2010 competition is ‘Elsewhere’, under 40 lines long, and you may submit no more than two poems per person. The winner wil...
31st July 2010
Novelist Sally Spedding wins Welsh Poetry Competition
The organisers of the Welsh Poetry Competition 2010 announced the winners at a prize-giving evening in Clwb-Y-Bont in Pontypridd, this week.
The first prize winner was acclaimed crime and myste...
26th July 2010
Write to Speak presents Dennis Wild
Write to Speak, in association with www.thisisUll.com, will be hosting a spoken word event with special guest Dennis Wild at The Adelphi Club in Hull on Thursday, 5th August as part of the Larkin25...
25th July 2010
What is a Tringe?
Only Preston’s premier arts festival, that’s what. And after a successful launch last year, it’s back: better even than it was before – bigger, bouncier, sleeker, and even more suave. The Tringe ru...
24th July 2010
Speakeasy Competition
Speakeasy – Milton Keynes’ Writers’ Group, has launched ‘The Speakeasy Open Creative Writing Competition 2010’, and are now looking for submissions; and with £350 in prize money, maybe it’s time f...
20th July 2010
Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
The deadline is fast approaching for submissions for the prestigious Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; all submissions must arrive by 31st July, 2010.
The winner of this long-established poetry...
20th July 2010
£10k Manchester Poetry Prize 2010
First prize: £10,000* Deadline for entries: 6th August 2010 Entry fee: £15
Judges: Simon Armitage, Lavinia Greenlaw and Daljit Nagra
Under the direction of Poet Laureate Carol...
16th July 2010
Submissions Against Government Cuts Wanted
In response to the Government's draconian emergency budget, the 'Recusant' will be compiling an oppositional e-anthology which will be circulated to newspapers, journals and Government auspices. If...
16th July 2010
Poems in Pubs
What better way can you think of to spend a pleasant afternoon than reading poetry in good company, in a pub on the Wirral? – especially when the weather is good and you can go out into the beer ga...
13th July 2010
Poetry on Tap
Two U.S. poets on tour – Colin Kelley and Karen Head (pictured) will be the special guest at Cardiff’s final ‘Poetry on Tap’ this Sunday.
Both poets are currently making big names for themselve...
8th July 2010
Candles in the Wind
Stratford-upon-Avon’s 57th Poetry Festival, which runs from 14th July to 1st August, has a varied programme, full of talent to offer this year; from an evening with director Greg Doran, to a creati...
7th July 2010
50 Zone
Can you write an original mystery connected with Bradford-on-Avon’s river in exactly fifty words? It’s not easy, but certainly not impossible.
The organisers of Bradford-on-Avon Arts Festival, ...
6th July 2010
July's Ezine
Click here to reach this month’s ezine - the ezine that reaches places that no other ezine has gone before – well, not on Write Out Loud anyway. From the south-east coast for poetry with Kate Tym (...
3rd July 2010
Workshop Leaders and Volunteers Wanted For August Bury Festival
After a break the 'LitaBury' festival returns on the 23rd of August in a venue in the centre of Bury, Lancashire - see the gig guide for full details.
Organiser, Gemma Lees, is looki...
3rd July 2010
Second Light Poetry Competition
Second Light Network of Women Poets are launching their annual Women Only Poetry Competition, 2010.
Second Light is a network that aims to promote the work of women poets, and to develop and pr...
3rd July 2010
