Manchester seeks Slam-o-Vision contenders
Manchester City of Literature is offering a prize of £250 to the poet chosen to represent the city at Slam-o-Vision, described as the spoken word version of Eurovision. The selected poet will represent Manchester at a live event held in Nottingham on 5 December 2023. If you live, work or study in Manchester and are over 18 you are eligible to apply. Entries must be received by midnight, Sunday 17 ...
9th September 2023
Overcoming racial inequity - 'incubating' poets of colour
The Poets of Colour Incubator, a collaboration between Words of Colour and Manchester Poetry Library, will provide support for talented poets of colour to build sustainable careers amid racial inequity.
Three successful Incubator poets will each receive a £6,000 Creative Action Bursary to innovat...
19th July 2023
National Memorial Arboretum seeks poet in residence
The National Memorial Arboretum is looking for a poet in residence for 12 months, who will explore its surroundings, landscape, and memorials through the art of poetry. The 150-acre visitor site is on...
1st February 2023
Poetry Toolkit conference to look at community projects and how to win funding
Publisher Nine Arches Press and arts organisation Writing West Midlands are bringing together poets, performers, publishers, literature agencies, and writer development organisations to discuss, debat...
18th October 2021
Calling young spoken word artists - here's a chance to develop your skills
New Writing North is partnering with BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Asian Network and BBC Contains Strong Language in a project to find the best emerging spoken word talent in the UK. Words First is a talent de...
28th May 2021
Southbank Centre wants applications for New Poets Collective
London’s Southbank Centre is looking for up to 15 poets to be part of its New Poets Collective. It says it wants to “seek out the world’s most exciting artists, from household names to fresh new talen...
10th April 2021
BBC networks launch search for new spoken word artists
BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Asian Network have launched ‘Words First’ alongside BBC Arts and Contains Strong Language festival, aiming to discover the best emerging spoken word artists from across the UK.
...1st June 2020
Call for a bilingual Polish and a bilingual Chinese poet
Can you help Anjum find two poets to help with multilingual work in schools? As if being a much-produced BBC radio scriptwriter and multilingual poet herself weren’t enough, to keep her busy Anjum Mal...
15th January 2019
Like to join the Write Out Loud team?
We are offering opportunities for new volunteers to take on important roles with this major poetry organisation with a large user base. It could be an hour or two per month doing the little things tha...
31st December 2018
Seeing the wood and the trees: chance to become writer-in-residence with Forestry Commission
The deadline is 14 January 2019 to apply for two national writer-in-residence opportunities, which will begin in the spring, as the Forestry Commission marks its centenary next year. The commission is...
14th December 2018
We're looking for a poetry journalist - or two - for Write Out Loud
Write Out Loud is looking for a dedicated volunteer – or volunteers – with a love of poetry to take over the running of its poetry news and features operation.
Greg Freeman, Write Out Loud’s news e...
13th March 2018
Wanted: 'poet-type' to front new band
A guitarist-songwriter has asked Write Out Loud to help in his search for a “poet-type, with presence” to front a new “edgy, grooveable, rock n’ roll band” that he is putting together.
Angel Rivers...
2nd April 2015
BBC's The Verb on lookout for new northern voices
Last year Wigan poet Louise Fazackerley - pictured at Write Out Loud in Huddersfield - was one of the winners. This year Verb New Voices 3 is again looking for four artists based in the north of Engla...
25th February 2015
Call for 'heritage' podcasts by spoken word artists
Performance poetry organisation Apples and Snakes is looking for spoken word artists to create podcasts with the theme of “heritage” for a monthly slot with Hive Live Radio, which is based in Bede’s W...
13th February 2015
Calling teenage poets in Yorkshire: search is on for film performers
Teenage poets in Yorkshire are being invited to take part in performance poetry workshops that will lead to the creation of the True Grit Poetry Cycle, a series of six short digital films. Write to Sp...
23rd March 2014
Wanted: new northern voices to feature on BBC's The Verb
BBC Radio’s The Verb, presented by Ian McMillan, is offering three writers – from the north-east, north-west, and Yorkshire - the opportunity to generate a new work which reflects something unique ...
5th November 2013
Spoken word writer? Your chance to report on poetry for Write Out Loud
Fancy yourself as an online journalist? Could you be part of the grassroots poetry revolution?
There’s a poetic revolution going on, with events, groups, projects and websites springing up acro...
13th September 2013
Performers wanted for International Women's Day event
A charity event to mark International Women’s Day is looking for poets, comedians and acoustic musicians to perform. The event on Friday 8 March, at Eden Bar, Canal Street, Manchester, will be in a...
7th January 2013
Wanted: poetry and fiction editors for online magazine
Blankpages, Blank Media Collective’s monthly online magazine for emerging artists, is looking for a poetry editor and fiction editor to join a team of Manchester-based volunteers.
The job speci...
17th July 2011
