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Ledbury Poetry Festival

Ledbury Ledbury, Herefordshire

The Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place over ten days each July. Touted as the biggest and best poetry festival in the UK and celebrating its 23rd year in 2019, the Ledbury Poetry Festival features poets from all over the world. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, …

carte blanche magazine Poetry Editor application deadline

carte blanche, founded in 2004, is the official online magazine of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. They are celebrating over 15 years of promoting poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, translation, photography, fiction, and literary commentary from Quebec, Canada, and around the world. carte blanche seeks a Poetry Editor to work both independently …

Poetry and the Sea

Ty Newydd Writing Centre Llanystumdwy, Cricieth

Literature is haunted by that which covers two-thirds of our planet, the sea. Its myths and marine life offer inexhaustible inspiration for writers. This course, led by Paul Henry and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, delights in the sea’s influence on poetry and considers different approaches to reflecting its pervading presence in our …

West Cork Literary Festival

Bantry Bantry, Cork

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.

Out-Spoken Poetry Masterclass: Raymond Antrobus

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London, SE1 8XX

Uncover your creativity at a poetry workshop with the writer of incisive, intimate poetry collection The Perseverance (PBS Winter Choice 2018). Raymond Antrobus is the winner of the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and he is the recipient …