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Write Out Loud is launching an appeal to our website users, to help us cover our running costs. Write Out Loud is a Community Interest Group (CIC), which means that any money we generate is used solely for our community purposes, to the benefit of our users. But maintaining our website costs money. Right now, we need £250 a month for running costs and to secure the site’s future for another year. Any money raised beyond that w...

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Jane Burn has won the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year award for a portfolio of poems titled A Thousand Miles From The Sea. The pamphlet o...

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The official biographer of WB Yeats, Roy Foster, will be delivering the inaugural Bedford Park Lecture on the Nobel prizewinner at St Michael and All ...

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Poet Michael Rosen, who spent 48 days in intensive care in 2020 after contracting Coronavirus early on during the pandemic, has been spurred to write ...

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Write Out Loud Woking is moving to a new live venue in Woking at the end of this month. The Fiery Bird community arts and live music venue has opened ...

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Heather Cook, a regular reader at Write Out Loud Woking live nights and Write Out Loud Woking on Zoom, will be launching her award-winning first poetr...

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A book of interviews which should prove very useful to poets aiming to improve their skills, and is already on the reading lists of several universiti...

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Tom Sleigh and Mona Arshi will be judging this year's £2,000 Troubadour poetry prize. The deadline is 10 December. More details 

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Malika Booker, who won this year’s Forward prize for best single published poem for the second time, will be judging the £600 Teignmouth poetry festiv...

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Zaffar Kunial will be judging The Rialto’s £1,000 Nature and Place poetry competition. The Rialto magazine is working in association with the RSPB, Bi...

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Not to be confused with the turpentine tree in the Eucalypt forests of Australia, the tree in question here is Bursera simaruba, commonly known as gum...

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Rachel Carney grew up in Sheffield and now lives in Cardiff where she teaches creative writing. For several years she worked in museums and is complet...

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Nigel Planer is perhaps best known as Neil the hippy in the anarchic 1980s youth comedy The Young Ones. But as well as being an established actor with...

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