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 - we will be hosting a couple of events there.

Who’s on the bill? It’s a poetry world Who’s Who! Now in its fourth year, the seaside town’s festival promises three nights of wall to wall poetry with the nation’s favourites along...

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The launch of Suzanna Fitzpatrick’s debut full collection Crippled in London on Tuesday evening came with a trigger warning. The book explores a child...

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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 ...

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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 fest...

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To Haydon Bridge in Northumberland, to find the cottage where the poet Philip Larkin and his long-time lover, Monica Jones, met four or five times a y...

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In her mid-20s, Len Pennie is already a poetry phenomenon. She became renowned on social media such as TikTok during lockdown for posting a "Scots wor...

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The 2025 National Poetry Competition, run by the Poetry Society, is open for entries. This year’s judges are Denise Saul, Ian Duhig and Susannah Dicke...

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For two decades or more, the name Henry Normal was most often associated with an illustrious string of hit television comedies such as The Mrs Merton ...

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Marilyn Longstaff lives in Darlington and is a member of Vane Women writing collective. In 2003, she received a Northern Promise Award from New Writin...

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