Following the fantastic Kulture Klub event in Rochdale last Wednesday it's time for our regular monthly read around at the Old Boars Head, Middleton and note, it's the last one this year.
Your host is Gemma O'Neill - she may be baking cakes for the events if your lucky and it all starts at 8pm Sharp!

On PAGE ONE with Tony Stringfellow, this week…
…Featured Poet this week is Elizabeth Jennings an interview with poet and publisher Jan Fortune-Wood and a visit to the dusty library to look into A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man
many more litty tasters…Don’t miss it!!! Fridays
at 4.00pm and Mondays at 9.00am www.wcrfm.com
If you have a poem or any Litty Ditti...

Listen to Li-Young Lee(pictured) on Chicago Public Radio click on this link
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=29727
Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry, his most recent being Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton, 2008). His earlier collections are Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001); Rose (BOA, 1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Awar...

Talking Myself Home is Yorkshire poet, comedian & broadcaster Ian McMillan’s life story in poems.
Here’s a portrait of an unregarded place - Darfield, near Barnsley, a place mentioned (briefly) in the Domesday book and now trying to reinvent itself after the wholesale closure of the mining industry. And a love story between Lt Cdr J. McMillan, a Scottish sailor and Ol...

Café Writers Open Poetry Competition 2008
Entry Fee: £4 per poem; or £10 for 3 poems and £2.00 per poem thereafter
Closing Date: 30th November 2008
Prizes: 1st £750 2nd £300 3rd £150
also
£150 Jarrold Book Vouchers awarded to best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident
Sole Judge: Penelope Shuttle - Penelope lives in Cornwall and her eighth collection of poems Redg...

The winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2009, sponsored by Frogmore Press, will win two hundred guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The first and second runners-up will receive seventy-five and fifty guineas respectively and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers*. Shortlisted poets will receive copies of selected Frogmore Press publica...

In the Red, the literary magazine from the Centre of Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, is accepting submissions for its latest issue. All writing must have the theme of "Wild" though this can be interpreted in any way that you please - experiment away!
*Poetry - up to 40 lines * Prose- up to 750 words * Flash Fiction particularly welcome.
The magazine was started seven years ago...

The latest work from patrick jones, South Wales poet and playwright, suffered attack last night when Waterstones Managing Director, Gerry Johnson, stepped in to cancel the book launch at the Cardiff branch of Waterstones in the face of threats of protest from Stephen Green and Christian Voice.
Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today: "...the fact is, we were...

the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 90 years ago to the day, and the Guardian has a gallery of photos of those war poets, along with a manuscript (click the image to enlarge) for Dulce et Decorum Est and other poems. Well worth a look on this significant day: http://tiny.cc/OJEAN...

A women only workshop is a creative writing workshop, offered by the writers Anne Caldwell (Pictured) &
Nell Farrell, on the theme of exploring the mother-daughter relationship.

It is open both to beginners & more experienced writers, who would like to look at this topic, using their own life experience & family relationships as a starting point for writing.

Anne & Nell...

The writers' cooperative erbacce-press is running a fantastic FREE-TO-ENTER poetry comp; first prize is publication of a perfect bound copy of the winner's work, a generous royalties-contract, a dedicated sales-page and 20 free copies delivered to the winner. No age limit, no fees, anyone can submit. Please visit the website for full details: www.erbacce-press.com...

The New Writers Proze and Poetry Competition is open until 30th November. You can find full details at http://www.thenewwriter.com/prizes.htm...

Calling you all as amazing and established artists, movers and shakers and assorted literary 'erberts to contribute to the brand new spanking edition of Birmingham writers co-operative magazine 'Wrote Under Pressure.' This will be the fourth edition of the mag since it's inception in 2006 - and we hope to relaunch it kicking and screaming into 2009. With your help and fantastic artistry w...

7 ?" 9 November 2008… and despite the credit crunch and the plethora of other festivals, our boldly imaginative programme has attracted reassuringly healthy advance bookings (average 71% across 31 events). This year’s Festival promises to be its usual feast of poetry excellence with a programme designed to intrigue and enlighten. Tickets are still available for most events ?" s...

On Friday 7th November 2008, Tate Britain, Pimlico there's a free showing of poetry films. Timings:
Auditorium
19.00-19.30 Screening
20.00-20.45 Screening and Discussion - what happens behind the scenes of a
film?
21.00-21.30 Screening

A selection of PoetryFilms including an animation based on 13 Ways of Looking at
a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens; a film by Billy Childish celebrating the...