Twenty years ago, did I imagine that Write Out Loud would still be here in 2025? No …!
Welcome to 2025 – and to Write Out Loud’s 20th anniversary as a poetry website! We have a number of things planned to commemorate this year, including a big new competition. We’ll be launching that - with full details of how to enter – in February. Meanwhile we thought it was time we caught up with the man who was there at the start of it all, and is still very much at the Write Out Loud helm – Julian Jordon.
For those...
News and Opinion
American poet Peter Gizzi has won this year’s £25,000 TS Eliot Prize for his collection Fierce Elegy, described by the chair of judges, Mimi Khalvati ...
14th Jan 2025 2:41 pm
Bradford-born poet, spoken word artist and playwright Kirsty Taylor is the dramaturg – the literary adviser - of Bradford 2025 City of Culture, which ...
11th Jan 2025 2:13 pm
Here’s a poetry challenge for you, to welcome in 2025. Following the success of your reverse-nonet ‘Christmas tree’ poems, we’re inviting you to compo...
27th Dec 2024 5:08 pm
The Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes, who came to England as a boy with his family following the Hungarian uprising and Soviet clampdown in 1956, is...
17th Dec 2024 3:40 pm
A native Gaelic speaker from the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides has been appointed as Scotland’s new Makar, its national poet. Academic, writer a...
6th Dec 2024 2:30 pm
The poet, artist and film-maker Imtiaz Dharker has been awarded an OBE for services to the arts in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List. Dharker was award...
3rd Jan 2025 12:00 am
Clevedon LitFest is now open for submissions for its Motorcitysixty poetry competition, which marks the 60th anniversary of the first Motown Revue tou...
6th Jan 2025 7:01 pm
Chris Hardy will be judging the £250 South Downs Poetry Festival’s Binsted prize. Poems must be previously unpublished and not exceed 40 lines. The de...
16th Jan 2025 12:00 am
Helen Mort will be judging the 2025 Rialto Nature and Place poetry competition. First prize is £1,000, and the deadline is 1 April 2025. More details
...3rd Jan 2025 12:50 pm
Kit Fan will be judging the £1,000 Kent & Sussex Poetry Society open poetry competition. The deadline is 31 January 2025. More details
30th Nov 2024 12:00 am
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 ...
1st Jan 2025 10:33 pm
An important aspect of the poetry of Audrey Ardern-Jones is its humanity. Perhaps it is a failure of mine, to perceive it that often in the poems of o...
3rd Dec 2024 3:52 pm
More articles …
Send your articles to news@writeoutloud.net
Upcoming Events
Washington DC » busboys & Poets, Sunday Kind of Love
5:00pm at 2021 14th St NW, Washington DC, DC 20009, US
7:30pm at 2199 California St., Denver, CO 80205, US
Cuyahoga Falls » The Summit Creative Writers Roundtable
7:00pm at 133 Portage Trail, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221, US
7:30pm at Zoom
Tulsa, OK » Velvet Chair Poetry Night
7:00pm at 303 M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Tulsa, OK, 74103, US
Join Write Out Loud
Join Write Out Loud to post your poems, join in the discussions and, optionally, receive our newsletter.
Recent Activity
All comments »
All profiles »
3 hours ago
6 hours ago
8 hours ago
10 hours ago
All blogs »
2 minutes ago
38 minutes ago
1 hour ago
1 hour ago
Who runs Write Out Loud?
Contact Information
The site is run by a team of volunteers. So please be patient in waiting for replies.
Press releases, articles, gig reviews to news editor, Greg Freeman: news@writeoutloud.net
Poetry/book Reviews editor, reviews@writeoutloud.net
To list events, please submit your event. Queries to: gig@writeoutloud.net
The Poetry Directory of magazines, competitions, publishers, courses, etc. Listings info to: directory@writeoutloud.net.
Moderation, blogging and related issues: moderator@writeoutloud.net
Access/log-in or general enquiries: info@writeoutloud.net