Wednesday 3rd @ 8pm – DEAD GOOD POETS SOCIETY OPEN FLOOR. 24 spaces of five minutes for you to perform your own poetry. New poets always welcome as are new audience members! Old poets and audience also welcome! In fact, EVERYONE’s welcome. The 3rd Room, Everyman Bistro, Hope Street, Liverpool. Arrive early to book a performance slot. £2/£1 pay on the door.
Wedneday 3rd @ 7.30pm: Wirral Grand Slam. Three poetry groups on the Wirral are combining to promote the “Wirral Grand Slam” to be held at 8pm prompt (doors 7.30pm), 3rd June at Tullula’s Late Lounge, Marine Parade (above Wilkie’s Amusements), New Brighton, Wirral CH45 2JX.
Saturday 13th: 2-4pm – The DEAD GOOD POETS SOCIETY POETRY READING GROUP. The Hornby Room, Liverpool Central Library. This month we will be looking at YOUR favourite poems. Arrive a little early and I will photocopy your choices to share with the rest of the group. All welcome. Refreshments provided.
Wednesday 17th @ 7.30pm – DEAD GOOD POETS SOCIETY’S AWAY DAY. Okay, for the pedants out there (and you know who you are!) it’s more of an Away Evening. We will be abandoning The 3rd Room for The Bluecoat Arts Centre to support * * FOURPENNY CIRCUS * * * Four characters from a jaded circus tell the audience about their lives, loves and memories. Expect surprises as they juggle, charm and saw poems in half. Starring former Cheshire Poet Laureates: Jo Bell. John Lindley, Andrew Rudd and Joy Winkler. £5/£3 Book your tickets via the Bluecoat Box Office 0151 702 7782
Thursday 18th: 9pm – 11pm: Wirral Ode Show, open mic poetry event hosted by the glamtastic Jason Richardson. Stork Hotel, Price Street, Birkenhead. Free.
Sunday 21st @ 8pm: Write Out Loud’s super-friendly Read Around. Poetry Open Mic open to all! The Howcroft Inn, Pool Street, Bolton. £1
Thursday 25th @ 7pm: Liverpool Poetry Café presents Salt Earthworks Native American Poets: Kimberly Blaeser & Gordon Henry Jr. Free event but advance booking is essential. The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool.
Monday 29th June @ 8pm: Zest! Poetry event featuring top poet Alicia Stubbersfield plus open mic. The evening is hosted by the Zest! Team: Gill McEvoy, Leih Steggall and Caroline Hawkridge. Alexanders jazztheatre bar, Rufus Court, Off Northgate St, Chester CH1 2JG. £3/£2 pay on the door
* * * Competitions * * *
* * * 3rd Annual Ted Walters International Short Story and Poetry Competition 2009 Closing Date: extended to 10th June 2009
Details: For poems of up to 40 lines and for short stories of up to 2000 words. Judge: Linda Walters. First prizes: £200. Entry Fee: £3 for the first entry, £2.50 for subsequent entries. Contact: Mr Tommy McBride (Group Secretary), The University of Liverpool Creative Writing Society for Lifelong Learning, 50 Onslow Road, Kensington, Liverpool, Merseyside L6 3BB. Email: thomas.mcbride@sky.com
* * * Welsh Poetry Competition. Closing Date: 21-Jun-09Details:First prize £300, second prize £150, third prize £75. Judge: Mike Jenkins. Maximum length: 50 lines.
Entry Fee: £3 per poem. Contact: Welsh Poetry Competition, 9 The Avenue, Pontypridd, CF37 4DFWebsite: www.welshpoetry.co.uk
* * * Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition 2009. Closing Date: 25-Jun-09.Details:
First prize: Ty Newydd Writing Course. Judge: Daljit Nagra. For poems of up to 40 lines. Three categories: 18 and over, 12-17, and 11 and under. Entry Fee: £3.50 for 18 and over . Contact: Ledbury Poetry Festival, Church Street, Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8 1DH Website: www.poetry-festival.com Telephone: 0845 458 1743
* * * Manchester Cathedral 11th International & Interfaith Religious Poetry Competition 2009 Closing Date: 29-Jun-09. Details: For poems of up to 40 lines. Poems submitted should be ‘broadly religious’, that is, ’spiritual’ in nature. First prize £350. Judge: John McAuliffe. Entry Fee: £4 for the first poem & £2 50 each for others. Contact: ‘The Religious Poetry Competition’, The Cathedral, Manchester M3 1SX
* * * Bridport Prize 2009. Closing Date: 30-Jun-09. Details: For poems of up to 42 lines and short stories of up to 5000 words. Poetry judge: Jackie Kay. First prize £5000.
Entry Fee: £7 per story, £6 per poem. Contact: The Bridport Prize, PO Box 6910, Dorset DT6 9BQ. Website: www.bridportprize.org.uk
* * * Keats-Shelley Prize 2009. Closing Date: 30-Jun-09. Details:
Two competitions – an essay and a poem. £3000 in prizes. The essay can be on any aspect of the lives and works of John Keats, P B Shelley, Mary Shelley or Lord Byron, and should be of 2,000 – 3,000 words, including quotations.It should focus on the theme ‘Find’. It may be of any length up to 50 lines. Entry Fee: £5 per entry. Contact: KSMA Competition Secretary, School of English, The University, St Andrews, KY16 9ARWebsite: www.keats-shelley.co.uk
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