Deadline nears for WoLF/Write Out Loud competition on 'vision' theme
The deadline is the end of December for Wolverhampton Literature Festival’s 2020 poetry competition, in conjunction with Write Out Loud, on the theme of “vision”. This year's judge Roz Goddard, pictured, says she's partial to poems "that are unexpected, inventive, filmic with a sumptuous spread, playful poems, intense poems that make me catch my breath, poems where I get a sense of the poet firmly in their own authentic territ...
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There will be a festive atmosphere at Bolton Write Out Loud – well, the odd mince pie, at least - on Sunday 15 December at Bolton Socialist Club. Entr...
11th Dec 2019 12:00 am
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11th Dec 2019 12:06 pm
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1st Dec 2019 12:07 pm
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5th Dec 2019 4:01 pm
Here's a poem about something that each of us receives, though only once. If you didn't get yours written into a poem, you've got it put away somewher...
11th Dec 2019 12:07 pm
It is the county of Woodbine Willie, Basil d’Oliveira, apples, pears and plums, a certain kind of sauce, floods, Elgar, and steam trains. Some poets a...
10th Dec 2019 3:39 pm
Poet, writer and educator Jean Atkin has worked on a variety of residencies in both England and Scotland and provides workshops and readings to school...
10th Dec 2019 9:50 am
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