It’s been a special year for Write Out Loud. Our best wishes for 2026 – and keep writing!
Seasonal greetings to you all from Write Out Loud, whether you’re huddled inside in the warm, or basking outside in the sunshine! It’s been a dangerous and fearful year out there, but please forgive us for also celebrating 2025 as the year when we marked our 20th anniversary with a resoundingly successful poetry competition and anthology, and a smashing showcase event at Morecambe poetry festival in September. We kicked off 20...
News and Opinion
January 2026 sees the 40th anniversary of Poems on the Underground. On 6 January BBC Radio 4's Artworks speaks to one of the founders of the scheme, J...
21st Dec 2025 8:52 am
The co-founder of Write Out Loud, Dave Morgan, was given a fond farewell on Sunday as he stepped down from the helm of Write Out Loud’s open-mic night...
9th Dec 2025 10:17 pm
Milton Keynes Lit Fest is mapping the city in a multimedia project to capture people’s experiences in relation and response to specific places – house...
12th Dec 2025 9:00 am
Do you know someone who loves poetry? If you do, why not send them a copy of our Write Out Loud poetry competition anthology Echoes? We're very proud ...
24th Dec 2025 2:16 pm
Tom Paulin has won the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 for Namanlagh, his first collection in over a decade. The £5,000 award was announced at a ceremony in the...
4th Dec 2025 12:00 am
Two recent recipients of the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry – Selima Hill (2022), and George Szirtes (2024), pictured – have finally been presented with...
29th Nov 2025 9:18 am
The American poet, teacher, and human rights advocate Carolyn Forché was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at a degree ceremony at Newcastle Universi...
5th Dec 2025 12:00 am
I was a little unsure about joining Mole Valley Poets back in 2003. They were probably all much better than me. I might not be good enough. I’d have t...
2nd Dec 2025 10:46 am
This Golden Toad (Bufo periglenes) is an extinct species of toad that was once abundant in a small, high-altitude region north of the city of Montever...
16th Dec 2025 11:03 am
When poet and publisher Tim Fellows looked out of his bedroom window as a boy, he saw the local colliery in his former mining area of north Derbyshire...
28th Nov 2025 10:23 am
Ivan V Lalić (1931-1996) was born in Belgrade, the Yugoslav and Serbian capital. The summers of his childhood were spent in western Serbia, an idyll t...
2nd Dec 2025 12:00 am
William Martin (1952–2010) was born in the mining village of New Silksworth, then in County Durham, and later moved to Sunderland where he spent the l...
18th Dec 2025 12:00 am
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