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Your chance to take the stage: Write Out Loud's poetry jam at Marsden jazz festival!

Write Out Loud returns to Marsden in West Yorkshire for its popular annual open mic poetry jam at the jazz festival on Sunday morning 13 October 11am-1pm. This year we are delighted to have secured a fantastic new venue at Marsden Socialist Club, which boasts a licensed bar, ample seating and to top it all a stage. Last year, poets gathered to remember Paul Blackburn, a very dear friend and regular supporter of this event, and...

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A posthumous collection by a young poet who was found dead after a festival last year is among the shortlisted books for this year’s £25,000 TS Eliot ...

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“It was the perfect tree, in the perfect place.” So said poet, performer, writer and broadcaster Kate Fox, in launching a book of poems at Waterstones...

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“It means the world to me to win the Foyle Young Poets award. I have been writing for a very long time – privately, always hunched over the family com...

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Important news! You can now make direct donations to Write Out Loud, so more of your contribution is retained by our community interest company. Thank...

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The radical poetry publisher Smokestack Books is closing at the end of the year, its editor, Andy Croft, has revealed, in a letter to the poetry magaz...

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It’s 1.45 in the morning and the first day of the 2024 Morecambe poetry festival is drawing to a close. The last poet standing has just been awarded £...

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The Poetry Society's £5,000 2024 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries. This year's judges are Stephen Sexton, Romalyn Ante and John McA...

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Jacqueline Saphra will be judging the £400 Waltham Forest poetry competition on the theme of Friendship. There is also an extra prize for the funniest...

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The £1,000 Keats-Shelley prizes for essays and poems have opened for entries. The theme for this year’s prizes is ‘Exile’, to mark the bicentenary of ...

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This collection of snapshots from Neil Leadbeater is as clean-cut as the jewels that inspire ‘Diversion’, the fourth of its five sections. His percept...

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Lorcán Black, an Irish poet now living in London, is a Pushcart prize and Best of the Net nominee, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Two...

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Patrick Osada’s collection The Warfield Poems is a lament for his village in Berkshire that over the last few decades has largely been swallowed up by...

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