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.
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The American poet Jane Hirshfield has re-posted a poem she first publicised at the start of the first administration of President Trump in 2017, in pr...
25th Jan 2025 8:51 am
The multi-award-winning poet Michael Longley has died at the age of 85. Longley was born in Belfast in 1939 and lived in the city until his death, whi...
24th Jan 2025 11:05 am
Friends of Jackie Hagan are re-staging Magic Animals, a poetry session she used to host, in a one-off tribute show on 1 February at Manchester’s Conta...
24th Jan 2025 12:00 am
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
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
Award-winning poet Dominic Berry is the guest at Write Out Loud Bolton open-mic night at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 2 February. Dominic, who has ...
20th Jan 2025 12:00 am
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
The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, is lining up the next leg of his 10-year tour of the UK’s libraries. Each spring this decade, Armitage is giving re...
21st Jan 2025 4:02 pm
The hugely popular American poet Billy Collins will be reading and in conversation with poet Paula Meehan at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, ...
22nd Jan 2025 3:00 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 Poems must be previously unpublished and not exceed 40 lines.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
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
Sometimes slim volumes open up much bigger worlds and pack a punch beyond 30 pages of text. The title and the cover of Janus suggest a gaze, both forw...
24th Jan 2025 12:00 am
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