Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2010
The Cafe Writers Open Poetry competition has a closing date of 30th November 2010.
First prize is £1,000, second £300 and five commended prizes of £50. £150 prize for the funniest poem, not winning another prize. There's also a £100 Norfolk prize awarded to the best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident.
The Entry fee is £4 per poem; or £10 for 3 poems and £2 per poem thereafter.
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14th November 2010
Along the Iron Veins
Just what you’ve been waiting for and right on schedule is ‘Along the Iron Veins’ – a new anthology of railway poetry, containing poems by not one – but two of Write Out Loud’s favourite poets – Winston Plowes and John Coopey.
The anthology celebrates in poetry, prose and pictures, the essent...
14th November 2010
Maryport Litfest
Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport in Cumbria will be having their third litfest from 26th -28th November 2010. It promises to be a provocative and exciting weekend, a celebration of words in all th...
14th November 2010
Rachel McGladdery wins First Ever Liverpool Lennon International Poetry Competition
Last Saturday night, as many of us were standing with our hands in our pockets, shivering in the freezing November weather as we ‘oohed’ and ‘aahed’ over small, but still lethal amounts of explosiv...
9th November 2010
Unsung want You!
Unsung, Manchester's best free literary magazine, is putting together a December edition and your work could be in it.
Co-editor, Matthew Byrne, says:
"I want your poems,
I want your ...
8th November 2010
Wife and Mother
Ray Miller chose this month's poem. He says of it, "What I admire about the poem is its restraint and dignity, even the rhymes are spare and unobtrusive.It is a heart rending poem which manages to ...
5th November 2010
Belonging?
Adoption Matters Northwest
Poetry Competition 2010
What does belonging mean to you?
One in four people in the UK will have a personal connection with adoption. Does that sur...
3rd November 2010
I, Catalyst
Sympathetic Sybil is Write Out Loud's own Agony Aunt, send your problem to sybil@writeoutloud.net
Dear SS,
Here’s my unusual problem. A fantastic poet has started writing love poems a...
2nd November 2010
The Interview: Michael Wilson
Welcome to The Interview! An occasional column where Write Out Loud interviews someone you just might find very interesting.
Last month, at the very prestigious and very famous Cheltenham Liter...
2nd November 2010
Bournemouth Literary Festival 2010
Once you agree to take part in a festival, time gets distorted. You start a year ahead, the first six months or so slide past and suddenly our Chairman, Lillian Avon, who also founded the Festival,...
2nd November 2010
Write Club Returns
The first rule of Write Club is...
... you do NOT discuss your own poems
Th...
2nd November 2010
Is there still a market for rhyming poetry?
There seems to be a distinct trend in poetry these days to shun rhyme. This seems to happen from the critics’ side rather than the writers’. Being a poet myself who more often than not writes in rh...
2nd November 2010
Cryptic Poem Winner
The winner from October's Prize Cryptic Poem is....
Cathy Bryant
All the way from Manchester.
The prize winner was chosen at random from all of the correct entries that we receive...
2nd November 2010
Haiku Competition 2010
At With Words, they believe in acting locally and thinking globally, so half of any profits from this competition will go towards literacy work with children in developing countries, and half will ...
1st November 2010
wordPLAY Charity Special
wordPLAY is very pleased to announce that they are returning to the Good Ship in Kilburn for a one-off charity special on Tuesday 23rd November in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. It's an event fo...
1st November 2010
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2010
The Poetry Trust present the 22nd Aldeburgh Poetry Festival from 5th to 7th November 2010
Described by Tom Paulin as ‘the best poetry festival - indeed literary - festival’ he’s ever been to...
1st November 2010
lifelines
This month's poem was chosen by last month's winner, Isobel. She says she chose it because, "Life Lines is a poem that has been worked on and crafted, using time honoured literary techniques. In m...
1st November 2010
