Poem of the Week: Dylan Thomas

2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Winners Announced

Just Proves How Much Publishers Read

Put Your Favourite Place on the Poetry Map!
The East Riding Library Service has teamed up with The South Bank Centre, London, on their new literary project called GPS (Global Poetry System!) which is designed to map the whereabouts of poetry in the UK’s landscapes and cityscapes.    Over the coming months, poets and poetry sleuths will be able to raise the profile of the places they love through posting poems about them on the GPS website. This can be poetry they’ve written or poems they’ve found in the landscape or on the streets.   There are poems scattered all over the place. They might be discovered on monuments, benches, plaques, in ch

Mslexia Roadshow
Mslexia Roadshow  Two workshops and an Interview with Hilary Mantel 12pm-2.00pm: Writing a Synopsis workshop Debbie Taylor, novelist, broadcaster and founder of Mslexia, takes you through exercises to help you communicate what your novel is really about to an agent or editor.  3.00pm-5.00pm: First Paragraph workshop novelist and tutor Lesley Glaister takes you through exercises to help you create an arresting first paragraph that will seize readers’ attention and encourage them to read on. This workshop is designed for novelists and short story writer

ManyHands Poetry Competition
Judged by copland smith Chorlton’s Community Arts Café invites entries of poems up to 50 lines on the theme of community. 1st prize, gift vouchers worth £100; 2nd prize, gift vouchers worth £50; 3rd prize, gift vouchers worth £25. Winners will be announced 1st January, with an opportunity to read at the café and compete for the position of ManyHands Café Poet in Residence.  The competition closes on the 15th December. Please do not write your name on the poems themselves but instead include a separate page with poem titles, name and contact details. Entry fee £2 for one poem, £5 for up to three poems or £8 for up

Letter Writing in London
What happens when we stop texting, emailing and instant messaging and pick up a pen and paper? Led by poet Miriam Nash, the Snail Mail workshop explores letter writing as a form of creative writing, opening new and unexpected doors to creativity.  Saturday 28 November 11am – 1pm Foyles bookshop, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB Price: £10/£6 To book visit www.foyles.co.uk/events.asp For more info visit http://www.miriamnash.com/

PENNIES OR POUNDS!
There’ll be a poetry reading in aid of the CUMBRIA FLOOD RECOVERY FUND — details below: http://www.cumbriafoundation.org/ on THURSDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 730PM at the BLUEBELL BOOKSHOP, ANGEL SQUARE, PENRITH, CUMBRIA admission free ALL DONATIONS GO TO THE ABOVE FUND basically, we want YOU to come along, share a poem, donate some books, or give a donation – be it a penny or pocketfuls of pounds! and/or simply BE there, encouraging us poets and each other and donating whatever you can. and, if you can’t be there, email me a poem, i’ll read it out –