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Manchester seeks Slam-o-Vision contenders

Manchester City of Literature is offering a prize of £250 to the poet chosen to represent the city at Slam-o-Vision, described as the spoken word version of Eurovision. The selected poet will represent Manchester at a live event held in Nottingham on 5 December 2023. If you live, work or study in Manchester and are over 18 you are eligible to apply. Entries must be received by midnight, Sunday 17 ...

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Overcoming racial inequity - 'incubating' poets of colour

The Poets of Colour Incubator, a collaboration between Words of Colour and Manchester Poetry Library, will provide support for talented poets of colour to build sustainable careers amid racial inequity.

Three successful Incubator poets will each receive a £6,000 Creative Action Bursary to innovat...

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National Memorial Arboretum seeks poet in residence

The National Memorial Arboretum is looking for a poet in residence for 12 months, who will explore its surroundings, landscape, and memorials through the art of poetry. The 150-acre visitor site is on...

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Poetry Toolkit conference to look at community projects and how to win funding

Publisher Nine Arches Press and arts organisation Writing West Midlands are bringing together poets, performers, publishers, literature agencies, and writer development organisations to discuss, debat...

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Calling young spoken word artists - here's a chance to develop your skills

New Writing North is partnering with BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Asian Network and BBC Contains Strong Language in a project to find the best emerging spoken word talent in the UK. Words First is a talent de...

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Southbank Centre wants applications for New Poets Collective

London’s Southbank Centre is looking for up to 15 poets to be part of its New Poets Collective. It says it wants to “seek out the world’s most exciting artists, from household names to fresh new talen...

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BBC networks launch search for new spoken word artists

BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Asian Network have launched ‘Words First’ alongside BBC Arts and Contains Strong Language festival, aiming to discover the best emerging spoken word artists from across the UK.

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Call for a bilingual Polish and a bilingual Chinese poet 

Can you help Anjum find two poets to help with multilingual work in schools? As if being a much-produced BBC radio scriptwriter and multilingual poet herself weren’t enough, to keep her busy Anjum Mal...

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Like to join the Write Out Loud team?

We are offering opportunities for new volunteers to take on important roles with this major poetry organisation with a large user base. It could be an hour or two per month doing the little things tha...

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Seeing the wood and the trees: chance to become writer-in-residence with Forestry Commission

The deadline is 14 January 2019 to apply for two national writer-in-residence opportunities, which will begin in the spring, as the Forestry Commission marks its centenary next year. The commission is...

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We're looking for a poetry journalist - or two - for Write Out Loud

Write Out Loud is looking for a dedicated volunteer – or volunteers – with a love of poetry to take over the running of its poetry news and features operation.

Greg Freeman, Write Out Loud’s news e...

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Wanted: 'poet-type' to front new band

A guitarist-songwriter has asked Write Out Loud to help in his search for a “poet-type, with presence” to front a new “edgy, grooveable, rock n’ roll band” that he is putting together.

Angel Rivers...

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BBC's The Verb on lookout for new northern voices

Last year Wigan poet Louise Fazackerley - pictured at Write Out Loud in Huddersfield - was one of the winners. This year Verb New Voices 3 is again looking for four artists based in the north of Engla...

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Call for 'heritage' podcasts by spoken word artists

Performance poetry organisation Apples and Snakes is looking for spoken word artists to create podcasts with the theme of “heritage” for a monthly slot with Hive Live Radio, which is based in Bede’s W...

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Calling teenage poets in Yorkshire: search is on for film performers

Teenage poets in Yorkshire are being invited to take part in performance poetry workshops that will lead to the creation of the True Grit Poetry Cycle, a series of six short digital films. Write to Sp...

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Wanted: new northern voices to feature on BBC's The Verb

BBC Radio’s The Verb, presented by Ian McMillan, is offering three writers – from the north-east, north-west, and Yorkshire - the opportunity to generate a new work which reflects something unique ...

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Spoken word writer? Your chance to report on poetry for Write Out Loud

Fancy yourself as an online journalist? Could you be part of the grassroots poetry revolution?

There’s a poetic revolution going on, with events, groups, projects and websites springing up acro...

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Performers wanted for International Women's Day event

A charity event to mark International Women’s Day is looking for poets, comedians and acoustic musicians to perform. The event on Friday 8 March, at Eden Bar, Canal Street, Manchester, will be in a...

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Wanted: poetry and fiction editors for online magazine

Blankpages, Blank Media Collective’s monthly online magazine for emerging artists, is looking for a poetry editor and fiction editor to join a team of Manchester-based volunteers.

The job speci...

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