More literary delights at Leeds Poetry Festival Left Bank Leeds courtesy of Nasim Rebecca Asl نسیم اصل Tim Cheng and Roshni Gallagher tonight, followed by a conversation with festival organiser Poppy Lee Jennings. A wonderful event. #poetry #spokenword #leeds

Get urself online or even to Left Bank Leeds tomorrow 6-7pm as I'll be reading from Escape Room & in conversation with Jack Collins !! Leeds Poetry Festival eventbrite.co.uk/e/escape-room-…

An absolute dream to perform with @JessMurrain & Molly naylor at Leeds Poetry Festival Left Bank Leeds last night. Thanks everyone who came out for poetry on a Saturday night ❤️❤️❤️

🎉 Calling all emerging spoken word artists 🎉 Future Voices is now open for applications. We're seeking 40 voices who will be commissioned to develop a 1 min poetic film. The new works will be showcased in 2024. Apply by 7 Aug More info: bit.ly/40-poets

On the final day of Leeds Poetry Festival, ...(Worthy) Stone & Ian Humphreys read beautifully and discussed what it means to 'Live In Defiance' and to navigate the complexities of life, all whilst bathing in a sunlit Left Bank Leeds

Lovely to hear @katiescribbles read from her book 'White Ghosts', before an audience Q&A, at Leeds Poetry Festival Left Bank Leeds on the final day of the festival.

'The Poetry Supertram' visited Left Bank Leeds for the final act of Leeds Poetry Festival 2023. A wondrously efficient way to take tour through the history of Leeds, as presented by poets Ian Harker, Irene Lofthouse, Joe Williams & William Thirsk-Gaskill.

Such an incredible week and we had the amazing Dawn Kilner capture it beautifully 📸❤️

📢 END OF MONTH SUBMISSIONS ALERT 📢 30 calls for #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art closing today/tomorrow incl. The Paris Review Magma Poetry The Poetry Society @MagazineSpelt Winchester Poetry VARUNA | Australia Bad Betty Press Impossible Archetype & more. Don't miss out! angelatcarr.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/poe…

One Month to Go | Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Everybody has a story to tell. Submit yours to our prize today, for a chance to win £5,000 prize money, an Arvon course, subscriptions to Granta Mslexia ✨ and more. Enter by 31 August: bit.ly/2LFd289

Getting ready to submit your poems to PRIMERS? There are insights and tips from selecting editor Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈 at our #blog. Take a read to help guide you: buff.ly/44xs3LP Full criteria here: buff.ly/36HVXB2 And good luck!

Here's a thread of interesting submission calls for creative writing this next month... 1/14

Visit the Miners' Strike exhibition National Coal Mining Museum and then join me for an inspiring poetry workshop - all welcome, even if you've never written poetry before! The Poetry Business Bloodaxe Books Stairwell Books Seren Books 🖤 to book: ncm.org.uk/whats-on/strik…

Gutter's submission window is now open! We're accepting fiction, poetry, essays, and anything of the written word that doesn't neatly fit into form or genre. Deadline for submissions is a month from today, March 16th. Get in! guttermag.co.uk/submit

Cumbrian writers! Let's gather (online)! We'll be talking barriers/opportunities presented by being a writer in Cumbria - and what we can do about them. Come along if you have OPINIONS 👀 or just want to hang out/network /chat! Mon 4 March Cumbria Arts and Culture Network eventbrite.co.uk/e/cumbria-arts…

There is still time to submit your poems to the 2024 Leeds Peace Poetry Prize, the subject of which is 'Fire'. The judges are Emily Zobel Marshall and Matt Howard. leedspeacepoetry.com

LGBTQ+ writers in the North, we want to hear your stories! The Tempest Prize welcomes fiction, poetry and memoir, on any subject or theme, from new and established writers. The winner will receive £1000 and mentoring from @AMcMillanPoet. Deadline 28 Mar: newwritingnorth.com/northern-write…

The Roundhouse Poetry Slam is one of the most iconic annual events on the UK poetry scene. We're over the moon about the fact that, for the first time ever, the iconic slam is staging regional heats in Leeds. And not only that – they've partnered with LIVEwire to produce it.

We open for submissions tomorrow 😳 the theme for issue three is RETURN wildhuntmag.com/submissions

Here are the competitors for our Roundhouse Poetry Slam heat! This is the first time that the iconic slam has visited Leeds, and we can't wait to show 'em what we're about 🎤 Our guest judges are Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Vanessa Kisuule, and Maria Ferguson (Abbott) 🐼 🤩 eventbrite.co.uk/e/roundhouse-p…