James Kelman and Alasdair Gray are two of the big names topping the bill at this year’s WORD Festival at the University of Aberdeen. The Scots literary heavyweights will be joined by influential Glaswegian writer Janice Galloway, acclaimed Irish poet Michael Longley and a raft of talent from the UK and beyond.
The festival’s programme, which [...]
Top literary names to headline WORD 08
March 24th, 2008 · No Comments
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Poem honours WWI veteran aged 109
March 9th, 2008 · No Comments
A poem has been composed by the poet laureate for the oldest surviving veteran who fought in the trenches in World War I, 109-year-old Harry Patch. Andrew Motion composed the work [...]
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Deadlines
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Feeling overwhelmed by the number of writing competitions? Having trouble deciding which ones to enter? Are deadlines passing you by? Poets & Writers Magazine offers a unique service to its readers. Every two months it publishes a listing of the competitions for grants and contest awards whose deadlines will come due soon. This editorial [...]
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Call for Poets and Authors
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Anyone can enter
SHORT STORIES: 1st prize =£ 5000
POEMS: 1st Prize = £ 5000
Bridport Arts Centre
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The Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund
February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Purpose of the Fund
The Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund offers a poetry contest to award prizes to young poets with unusual promise. The first year of this writing contest was 2004. The Fund plans to disburse between $125,000 and $200,000 in “Dorothy Prizes” each year, reserving the right to adjust the size and number of [...]
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