John Hegley at Express Excess
Camden’s quickest and most excessive event is back with not one, but two superbly entertaining evenings within the next couple of weeks.
This evening - 31st March, you can see award winning comedy writer and performer Bridgit Christie who is currently touring her hit Edinburgh show ‘My Daily Mail Hell’. Support will be provided by musician and writer Duncan DeMorgan, and philosopher Jonny B...
31st March 2010
Aesthetica Creative Works Competition
The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is internationally recognised for identifying new artists and writers and bringing them to international attention. 2010 will be the competition's third year and previous finalists have achieved success and recognition with accolades including: wr...
31st March 2010
Get Creative!
Here are six more photos to make some sort of creative reaction too... whether it's a poem, flash fiction, short sentence, a short story, six words describing each image, a poem, screenplay, ...
31st March 2010
Words are soooo yesterday...
Sympathetic Sybil is Write Out Loud's own Agony Aunt...
Dear Sympathetic Sybil,
I’m finding it increasingly difficult to find words that do justice to the thoughts I’m having and t...
30th March 2010
La Tuilliere
This month's poem was chosen by last month's winner, Dave Dunn. Dave says, "I found myself returning to read this poem over a couple of times, attracted by the diverse and vivid imagery that Graha...
29th March 2010
Poetry on The Lake - International Competition
The little town of Orta San Giulio in the Italian Lakes has a special charm for writers and artists seeking inspiration and tranquillity, and they are welcomed there.
The Italian lakes are, und...
28th March 2010
Weasdale Nurseries Poetry Competition
You probably wouldn’t expect a Cumbrian nursery to be behind a national poetry competition, but that is how Weasdale Nurseries have decided to mark their 60th anniversary; they specialise in hardy ...
25th March 2010
One in a Million
Academi, the Welsh Literature Promotion Agency, welcomed its one millionth audience member at a sell-out event held on Saturday, 20th March.
‘A Meeting of Two Laureates’ was held at the St. Dav...
23rd March 2010
MORE POETRY at MUG HOUSE
What a wonderful headline! And a great headliner at this popular London venue – more popular thanks to Write out Loud’s listings, according to organisers Ken Champion and Juli Jana.
Julian Stan...
23rd March 2010
Headingley LitFest
The Headingley LitFest is underway and runs to 27th March 2010. This year's festival has the theme ‘A Sense of Place’. Headingley is a suburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire with many literary connecti...
22nd March 2010
Buxton Poetry Competition
The theme for this year’s Buxton Poetry Competition is ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’, and will be judged by Ann and Peter Sansom – directors of The Poetry Business.
Poets are invited to use their ima...
20th March 2010
Musicathon Writers Needed
The ELFM Musicathon ’10 is 24 hours of live, non-stop music and words, that starts at 3pm on Saturday, 1st May. Brought to you by ELFM – The East Leeds Community radio station.
Twenty-four writ...
20th March 2010
Essex Poetry Festival Competition
The 10th open Essex Poetry Festival Competition is now open for submissions with the sole adjudicator being Kathryn Simmons
Closing date for entries is 30th July 2010. First Prize £1,000 Seco...
20th March 2010
1st Wenlock Poetry Festival
The first Wenlock Poetry Festival boasts a line up that includes: Carol Ann Duffy(founding patron), Roger McGough, Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Daljit Nagra and many others.
9th April to ...
20th March 2010
Page One - Internet Radio
On Page One this week... An engaging interview with David Thompson about his new collection Breaking through Barriers ...an interview with Anna Dredda about the Much Wenlock Poetry Festival...and a...
19th March 2010
Mandy Coe in Manchester
Multi-award winning poet, Mandy Coe will be appearing at The Whitworth Gallery on Oxford Road in Manchester on Saturday, 27th March, as part of Manchester’s Literature Festival.
You may already...
17th March 2010
Scotland's Poetry Festival
StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival runs through to the 21st March. The festival features: Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Don Paterson, Vicki Feaver, Jen Hadfield, Matthew Sweeney, Mon...
17th March 2010
Bolton Wanderers win FA Cup!
Well, they did in 1923, and will continue to do so every night until 10th April, at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre.
It’s all thanks to those friends of Write Out Loud, playwrights Les Smith and Marti...
16th March 2010
Bath Japanese Festival 2010
The festival is taking place from the 12th to 23rd May at various venues throughout Bath and Bristol.
It is a festival aimed at the general public, designed to give people an opportunity to ...
15th March 2010
Returning aftershave and other tales
This Trippin' article is a picture-story from Jason Richardson. Jason runs The Wirral Ode Show.
The ode show meets at the Stork Hotel,Price St. Birkenhead on the Third Thursday of the month. 8....
14th March 2010
Avoid Angst and Conquer Cliché
Sympathetic Sybil is Write Out Loud's own Agony Aunt...
Dearest, dearest – hope you're going to be sympathetic – Sybil,
Please, please, for the love of God! - you have to help me! I just ca...
13th March 2010
Manchester Poets Wanted
Puppy Wolf Press are currently seeking submissions for the first issue of the anthology from all corners of the Manchester poetry/spoken word scene.
Best of Manchester Poets is the first major a...10th March 2010
If I was rearranging the dictionary I'd put you and I in the caress of barbed wire
The Poetry Jam is an original idea by Steve Garside. Send your audio poems together with the text of the poem (word format or rtf) to stevegarside@hotmail.com
Just so that you can sing along, ...
8th March 2010
Addition and Update to Magazine
There's a new Trippin' article in the Features section and 'Picture this' has been updated with revised pictures.
Lynda Berry paints a picture of January's 'Tongues & Groove' event in Southsea...
8th March 2010
Tongues and Grooves 31st January 2010
On the last Sunday of every month, there is a pleasant surprise to be had at the
Florence Arms, Southsea Hants. Tongues and Grooves has been in residence since 2003, and welcomes a wide range of ...
8th March 2010
Writing Squad Recruitment
The Writing Squad is looking for fifteen motivated writers, aged between 16 and 20, who are from, live, work, or study in the Yorkshire and Humberside region.
The Squad is not a formal course, ...
7th March 2010
Huddersfield Literature Festival 10-14 March 2010
The Organisers claim that this is the most exciting and innovative festival yet.
Featuring: Simon Armitage, Dorothea Smartt, Jeremy Dyson, Moniza Alvi and Alexei Sayle, as well as a speciall...
7th March 2010
Take Two...
OK so you didn't like the first six! So here are six more photos to make some sort of creative reaction too... whether it's a poem, flash fiction, short sentence, a short story, six words des...
7th March 2010
Dear Dermot
Well, here we all are again in the letters page of the March Edition of Write Out Side Now Car Park Fight, the friendly low fat magazine of Write Out Loud and what a month it's not yet been. St Pat...
6th March 2010
Welcome Home Curly Wurly
When the BBC asked Bristol performance poet David Johnson to write a poem at very short notice indeed, he was delighted to be able to do so, because the poem is to honour the return home to Bath of...
5th March 2010
Debjani Chatterjee Poetry Workshop
If you are in the Bradford area next Saturday afternoon, you might like to go along to Debjani Chatterjee’s workshop at Kala Sangam, St. Peter’s House in Forster Square.
The workshop is to be h...
5th March 2010
States of Independence
Independent presses and publishers from across the East Midlands, together with many writers from the region, will be at the Clephan Building at De Montfort University, Leicester, on Saturday, 20th...
5th March 2010
100 Stories for Haiti
Over 100 authors and editors have helped compile a unique collection of stories which will be released as an e-book and paperback this Thursday, 4th March, the proceeds of which will go to helping ...
5th March 2010
Richmond Poetry Jam - 12th March
Poetry Jam celebrates St Patrick's day with another of their open mic poetry jams, where new voices perform alongside established poets.
They are also featuring Irish poet, Racker Donnelly, ...
4th March 2010
The Bridport Prize
Bridport Arts Centre are asking for your poems and short stories for their latest competition – The Bridport Prize 2010.
In each category there is a first prize of £5000, as well as second and ...
4th March 2010
Cryptic Poem 003: Dirty Limericks
Nice easy ones this month. I am sure you are all well aware of the rhythms and conventions of the limerick. Simply solve the clues using logic, rhythm, rhyme and a dirty mind, and you will have you...
4th March 2010
Writing the World
Cool it Schools – the global online climate change and environmental project for young people, have launched a new poetry competition to celebrate the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.
W...
4th March 2010
Migration Stories
Crocus Books are launching ‘Migration Stories’ in Manchester on Thursday, 11th March.
‘Migration Stories’ gives fictional, and fictionalised, voice to U.K. migrants, from both the recent and mo...
3rd March 2010
Not for Yesterday. Not for Today
This month's poem was chosen by Mandy Coe who simple says "I found it and liked it a lot."
Find out more about Constant-Ngozi and his work at http://www.writeoutloud.net/poets/constantngoziozu...
2nd March 2010
Best Before End
This month's poem was chosen by Mab Jones, last months winner.
Mab says that picking a winner "...was really bloody hard!" She eventually settled on Winston's poem as it is "poignant-yet-rhymin...
2nd March 2010
Discombobulate this!
Okay, you've got the picture, you've got the merged poem (below). Clearly, the mad, evil Dr. Van Kinston has been up to his old tricks again. But, who's been cross-fertilising with whom?
Em...
1st March 2010
Prosody - where language and music collide
Poetry's Biggest Secret's finally revealed. One poet dares to speak out but only if he gets to wear a mask. It's not to conceal his identity, he just derives pleasure from it. If other poets wer...
1st March 2010
Where there's a Will, there's a way
This book began as a pamphlet, of a 1990 Hilda Hulme Lecture entitled ‘Ways into Shakespeare’s Sonnets’.
It is a book of close-reading, a book that investigates poetry in depth, from its langua...
1st March 2010
I remember
Exercise one
This is a simple exercise that a lot of poets use to get over writer's block. Write the words "I remember" on the first line, and then carry on writing the poem for five or ten mi...
1st March 2010
Poetry Commission in Manchester
Manchester Literature Festival and Manchester Art Gallery are looking to commission a poet to produce creative responses to the forthcoming Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pottery: Art and Industry in Gre...
1st March 2010
The Queen's Speech
This Thursday, 4th March, Manchester and Write Out Loud Poet - Tony Walsh, will be the special guest appearing at The Queen’s Head on Stockwell Road in Brixton. You can find out more about Tony on ...
1st March 2010
