An online poetry advent calendar is once more looking for submissions, so that it can feature a new poem every day throughout December. The calendar (“just a little idea I had on a boring November weekend”) was the brainchild of Zach Roddis,  who says: “You may be familiar with opening a door every day and eating chocolate throughout December. This is the same concept, but with poems instead. There will be a new poem every morning of December 2012. This is not related to commercialisation - as the poems will be free for everyone to read. It is not related to religion either, as there will be poems posted every day until New Year’s Eve - which is a time of year that is more widely celebrated.”

Last year’s calendar, the first, featured a number of names familiar to those on Write Out Loud, including Cathy Bryant, Rachel McGladdery, David Mountain, Charlotte Henson, Dermot Glennon, Gerry Potter, and John Darwin, to name but a few.

Poems on a winter theme are encouraged, although this is not a strict rule. You can read last year’s poetry advent calendar poems here

Here are more details on submitting poems to this year’s calendar