Environment festival sees poets going wild about the planet
This was an eco-festival - with plenty of poetry - that put forward a positive view for the future of our world. Alnwick’s What a Wonderful World festival in Northumberland began on Thursday at Rothbury golf club with stirring words from Mike Pratt, pictured, who is CEO of Northumberland Wildlife Trust, but is also a lyrical poetry and prose writer about the environment.
As rabbits gambolled...
11th July 2025
Fiona Benson to judge Winchester poetry prize
Fiona Benson will be judging this year’s £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
11th July 2025
Tribute event in memory of poetry legend Hovis Presley
It’s 20 years since the passing of northern poetry legend Richard Henry McFarlane aka Hovis Presley, who died of a heart attack aged 44. A unique talent straddling the worlds of stand-up, alternative...
8th July 2025
Being Gemini: Marilyn Longstaff, Smokestack
Marilyn Longstaff lives in Darlington and is a member of Vane Women writing collective. In 2003, she received a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North, and her third poetry book Raiment (Smokes...
8th July 2025
We do like to be beside the seaside! Write Out Loud is going to Morecambe poetry festival
Write Out Loud is going to Morecambe poetry festival in September! To mark our regard for this fabulous festival combining top names and grassroots poets - and to celebrate our 20th anniversary year -...
5th July 2025
Unflinching poet Suzanna Fitzpatrick maps loss and grief
The launch of Suzanna Fitzpatrick’s debut full collection Crippled in London on Tuesday evening came with a trigger warning. The book explores a childhood shadowed by a mother’s chronic illness, culmi...
3rd July 2025
‘Reading poetry at an open-mic night changed my life!’
Heartening news about the healing power of open-mic poetry – something we at Write Out Loud have always evangelised about – has come in an article in the Guardian.
1st July 2025
