Links

Competitions

Here's a link to the wonderful Poetry Library in London, which provides a very useful list of poetry competitions sorted by submission deadlines.

Magazines

• Poetry London
• Magma
  

Other Poetry Links

Lancashire Writing Hub is a writing development project. It exists to provide writers across Lancashire opportunities to network, develop, publish and perform.

Incwriters is a website for promoters, agents, publishers, readers and writers. Incwriters creates networks, protects literature (of all genres), promotes writing, publishing and reading.

Poetry Kit lists events, competition and magazines around the country.  

Write Out Loud is a national hub for participation in poetry. They encourage everyone who writes poetry to share their words with others in friendly, welcoming open-floor read-around, open-mic events and online on this site.

Manchester Lit lists literature news and events from Manchester Libraries.

Come Strut Your Stuffis a popular, long-running poetry and acoustic music event that takes place once a month in the intimate and friendly atmosphere of Liverpool's Egg Café.

YouWriteOn.com - Arts Council funded site for new writers opening chapters and short stories. Leading publishers Random House and Orion, who publish bestselling authors such as Terry Pratchett and John Grisham, review the top ten rated new writers' opening chapters on YouWriteOn each month.

Spotlight was founded in 1995 to promote and encourage the development and performance of new writing in the North West and is dedicated to encouraging new writing at the grass roots. Spotlight holds a live-writing cabaret on the 3rd Friday of every month at The Storey Auditorium, Lancaster. The event gives a platform to poets, writers,  comedians, ranters and  musicians and is always on the hunt for new and experimental writers and performers at it's Open Mic spots.

Partnership Organisations

Liverpool’s creative hub, the Bluecoat showcases talent across visual art, music, dance, live art and literature.  

The Wordsworth Trust, with its wealth of manuscripts, books, drawings and pictures, provides the full context for understanding and celebrating a major cultural moment in history in which Britain played a profound role. Through scholarship and education, the Trust links the creativity of the past with that of the present.

Formerly known as New Writing Partnership, Writers’ Centre Norwich is a literature development agency based in Norwich. They work with writers, readers and diverse communities on a wide range of ongoing and one off projects and events - locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

English PEN works to promote literature and human rights. From defending the rights of persecuted writers to promoting literature in translation and running writing workshops in schools, English PEN seeks to  promote literature as a means of greater understanding between the world's people. And here's the link to International PEN. 

Founded by T S Eliot and friends in 1953, the Poetry Book Society is a unique poetry society, providing information, guidance and discounts on the best contemporary poetry for a wide-ranging community of readers. The PBS is the biggest dedicated poetry bookseller in the UK.

Southbank Centre's wide-ranging programme of classical & world music, rock & pop, jazz, dance, literature and the visual arts - attracts the most diverse audience of any UK venue.