Yes, it's the original Write Out Loud night, where it all started and you, yes even you, are very welcome to come along and share your poetry. You'll find an evening that's warm, supportive if, at times, barking mad.
Come down to the Howcroft Inn on Sunday 20th July at 8pm sharp and have some fun!
Full details in the gig guide...

On PAGE ONE with Tony Stringfellow, this week's litty tasters
include...featured 'poet' Ted Hughes...an interview with Emily King, Jurg
Lehni and Alex Rich about 'The Recent History of Writing and Drawing'
exhibition...a chat with poet Paul McDonald... and a stroll along the path
of life with Pilgrims Progress...Don't miss it!!! Fridays at 4.00pm and
Mondays at 9.00am on 101.8 WCRFM and on...

Write Out Loud takes its model of open-floor poetry and participative translation workshops back on tour to France next week, with our well-established open floor poetry night in Bordeaux's Cambridge Pub on 22nd at 8.00 pm - now our fourth year there - and we add a new venue in St. Foy la Grande on 23rd at 17.00-19.30, where we shall be running both a participative translation workshop with E...

On Saturday 26th July from 11am-7pm at St Luke's Church (the bombed out church) in Liverpool City Centre
Loads of free stuff going on for you peace loving types - Poetry,Music, Dance,drama and speakers.
Guest poet, Pete Crompton, will be up to his usual tricks, performing a special set of environment and animal rights poetry fused with the usual vitriolic ranting audiences have come...

Race issue out on July 25
At last, the race issue is on its way and features some of the best poets in the UK, USA and throughout the world.
British black poets, Benjamin Zephaniah and Lemn Sissay share their views on race, racism and their poetic roots and have provided us with some excellent examples of their work.
And from across the Atlantic, we publish the work of be...

Poetic Intervention is a spoken words band from the midlands, fusing poetry with jazz & funk style music. They’re looking for Performance Poets, Folk/spoken words, Roots/World music
and Jazz/funk/fusion bands from the East Midlands (Peterborough to Derby to Walsall) to collaborate, organise events, showcase and share the stage.
They want artists with interest in the conscious or undergrou...

The 4th London Poetry Festival 2008 is about to happen! To be precise, on August 8, 9, 10 & 11: Friday to Monday.
People may begin gathering from six but the Festival will start at about 7:30 p.m and finish by 11:00 p.m. Those are the time for each of the four evenings.
As its signature presentation The 4th London Poetry Festival will present this year's Five Poets in Residence in all th...

Following the success of this year's HighTide Festival in Suffolk, the organisers are now requesting submissions for HighTide 2009.
How to Become a HighTide Writer
HighTide are looking for new full-length scripts from emerging writers:
* Writers may submit one unproduced, unpublished full-length play.
* There is no restriction on subject matter.
* HighTide welcome international s...

Moloch - an online journal of new art and writing - hosts a Dublin night showcasing some of its poets and songwriters on July 31st. Acts include Kevin Higgins, Alan Jude Moore, Stephen Kelly and The Perfect Consonants. The night kicks off at 7pm at the Winding Stair bookshop, Ormond Quay, Dublin 2. Admission is free.

Moloch - an online journal of new art and writi...

This months guests at Dead Good Poets Society in Liverpool are Martin Daws (pictured) and Cathy Roberts.
MARTIN DAWS is a performance poet who truly embraces the sounds of
the words as a complex music of meaning. He uses spoken word to connect
with the world on a deeper level and has developed a style of poetry
that is essentially a "music of speaking". Martin lives in Gwynedd &
works...

This is an ideal opportunity to see
what performance poetry is all about – if you’re not a regular at our events
this is the one you should come to – if you are a regular, this is the one to
bring your friends to. They’ll
thank you for the experience.At this month’s PUREandGOODandRIGHT,
at 7.30pm on WEDNESDAY 16 JULY at the Fox, Leamington Spa there's the shining star of
per...

The Festival of Bathing Beauties is the UK’s only arts festival centred in and around beach huts. The second annual festival will take place in Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea, on the Lincolnshire coast, on September 20th and 21st 2008. The aim of the festival is to bring exciting, innovative and dynamic work to the area, for the benefit of local communities and to encourage cultural tourism.
We a...

SUNDAY 13 JULY at The Brewery, Highgate Kendal
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF SPOKEN WORD
Professional Development For Performance Poets
and a high quality cabaret style spoken word event.
TIMES: Escape Masterclass - How to be the perfect host 2-4pm
KAT FRANCOIS PLUS - featuring Kat Francois
(former World Slam Poetry Champion), Emma McGordon (Generati...

How
Many Poets Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?

RE:Verberate
– Manchester’s leading lit night returns with a very special charity fundraiser
for the Manchester Comedy Festival this October.
We are looking for poets/comedians for a comedic
poetry record attempt in order to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust (registered charity number 1062559). To take
place as part of...

Later this year there will be writing workshops in Tarifa, Spain on the Costa da le Luz
Full details can found at http://www.inthewritelight.com
Comments from previous students include:
'I could not have imagined how relaxed, special and informative this experience would be. Absolutely unique and great fun' - Kitty, San Pedro.
'I had no idea what to expect and was really nervous abo...

In an exciting and high quality slam Pete Crompton (pictured) won the 1st Hebden Bridge, Fringe-Festival slam on Monday 9th July in an extremely close finish. Second was the magnificant Tony Walsh with the inventive Tom Croft coming an honourable third.
However, the occasion has been over-shadowed with the sad news that Seamus Kelly, who was to have been a contestant in the slam, couldn't attend...

There's a brand new web site for all you cricketing fanatics called http://www.cricketwrite.com and it's dedicated to creative writing on cricket.
They want to hear from inspired budding authors, poets and established writers - anyone who loves the sport with their thoughts and experiences. The site is generating more and more interest with contributions from around
the world including Sri Lanka,...

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 Redgrove's Wife wa...

There are a total of 19 prizes for this year's competition. Penelope Shuttle is the sole adjudicator.
First prize £500 (plus publication of the winning poem in the Yorkshire Post)
Second prize £250
Third prize £100
The
Leslie Richardson Award, given to a poet who works in Yorkshire, worth
£50. There are 10 prizes of £15 and five further ones of £10. The
closing date for entries is July 31...

Liverpool Poets 08 ISBN: 978-1-906588-20-5
is available now! This exciting collection includes 33 of the very best of the New Liverpool poets in a superb 128 page perfect-bound collection with a stunning full colour glossy cover! It's available now to purchase online at http://tinyurl.com/46f9lb it will be available to buy in all good book shops soon....

The Not Part Of Festival are pleased to announce the seminar - Your Scripts And What To Do With Them at 5pm 8th July at Urbis.
With Guest Speakers from BBC Writersroom and North West Playwrights this is an excellent opportunity for those who are interested in scriptwriting but aren’t sure which route to take, or have written a script and don’t know what to do with it....

Lisa B's arrival from Canada last year added some great talent to the Manchester poetry scene, winning slams and impressing audiences across the city.
If you haven't seen her, you should; if you hadn't read her poems, you couldn't - until now.
Lisa is launching her chapbook, Diving for Shiny Things, with guest poets Jaquie Hagan and Steph Pike, on Wednesday July 23rd 6:00-7:45pm in Manchester Cen...

Tuesday 8 July 7.00pm Matt&PHREDS Jazz Club, tib street, Manchester £5/£4
Dave Morgan presents his adaptation of Poetic off licence by Hovis Presley (1960-2005) as part of manchester’s “not part of” festival
Hovis in wonderland is a play for voices written as an homage to the wit, word play and acute social observation of Richard henry mcfarlane and his alter ego hovis presley.
Famou...

What with one thing and another, notably the shakey state of the venue, the
Albert Hotel Huddersfield, sixteen years of poetry at the Albert is coming to an end.
For the final, going-out-on-a-high reading on Thursday July 10th, the guests are:
* John Bosley
* John Duffy
* Jo Haslam
* Mark Hinchliffe
See gig guide for full details...