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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.

Poetry Is Dead – Small Towns issue submission deadline

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 …

ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival submission deadline

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 …

Rattle Poetry Prize submission deadline

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.

Poetry and Profanity

Poetry School 1 Dock Offices, Surrey Quays Road, Canada Water, London

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.