Farming districts, factory villages, ghost towns, bedroom communities, alternative societies, touristic hamlets, and shtetls: Poetry is Dead wants your poems and creative nonfiction on the subject of small town life. It isn’t necessary to have grown up in a small town to have an experience of one. Whether it be …
Since 2002 the international ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival has been taking place every two years. In 2019, the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is inviting entries for its first competition to find the best poetry films from Germany! Eligible for entry are short films (co-) produced in Germany in or after …
The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $200 each and publication, and be eligible for the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote. Learn more here.
The West Cork Literary Festival features workshops, readings, seminars, family events and more. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Carson is among the writers attending this year's festival. Learn more here.
Get profane with Inua Ellams to learn how four letter expletives can actually enrich your writing. In this workshop participants will discuss and dissect the pros and cons of using, and the various approaches to writing, bad language. Learn more here.
Mansfield Press is launching the following new titles: Laura Cok — Doubter’s Hymnal Tim Conley — Unless Acted Upon Paola Ferrante — What To Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack James Hawes — Breakfast with a Heron rob mclennan — A Halt, Which is Empty Learn more here.
Poets, film-makers and fashion-designers present open-ended experiments in Creative Journalism. For readers to be re-enchanted with the world, we have to go beyond zombie news ... Creative Journalism Factual, Lyrical, Truthful As told by today’s media, the world we live in reads like a closed book. Can it be re-opened, …