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Winchester Poetry Day takes place Sat 5th Oct 2024
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🤗 Thank you Hampshire Chronicle and Ryan Morwood for featuring Winchester Poetry Day 2024 in the paper this bank holiday weekend! hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24523421.…
Three weeks until Poetry Routes Networks and Connections: a journey on King Alfred's Buses with the Hampshire Poet! Join us for poetry on a vintage bus courtesy of FoKAB1985 for Winchester Heritage Open Days Free to attend, but there's limited seats on the bus 👉ticketsource.co.uk/winchester-poe…
📝The #HampshirePoet August blog post is live! Here, Damian Kelly-Basher explores acrostic, mesostic + abecedarian poems. Damian says: "Because they follow very basic rules... acrostics are an easy, fun writing exercise if you feel stuck." Take a look: winchesterpoetryfestival.org/post/hampshire…
Our friends at Sandy Hill Arts have a Poetry Weekend coming up at Corfe Castle ft Caroline Bird, Esther Morgan, Luke Wright, Stephen Boyce + more Readings - free Workshops - £10 A stunning area, near the castle, the sea and on an old milk bottling plant sandyhillarts.co.uk/events/poetry-…
🫱🏾🫲🏾 Writing Our Legacy | Covert 03 Magazine available! #Winchester social Our friends Writing our Legacy are hosting a relaxed social evening for poets + writers of colour to connect, support + inspire each other in a welcoming space before Winchester Poetry Day Fri 4 Oct 2024 | 5-7pm | email for venue
🦈🍝 #HampshirePoet's Festival of Surrealism at Poetry Platform #Winchester We're proud to collab with The Railway Inn once more for Damian Kelly-Basher's carnival of surrealist poetry ft guest poets + open-mic Costumes welcomed! Tues 1 Oct | 7:30pm | FREE - just turn up!
🚂We are delighted to collaborate with Watercress Line on the railway200 Poetry Project! 📝They invite you to write a poem celebrating 200yrs of UK train travel All poems to feature in large scale project Selected works in print 🟢open: now! 👀winchesterpoetryfestival.org/railway200poet…
The brilliant folks at Paris Smith have sponsored Winchester Poetry Prize and spoken at the big prize-giving ceremony for 6 years - we are so grateful for their support in championing great poetry 🌟
What a fabulous lineup for Winchester Poetry in October at The Arc, Winchester, sponsored by Paris Smith.
🤩 Who's excited for Winchester Heritage Open Days? WE ARE! 🎤🚌 We had a fun tech rehearsal today on FoKAB1985's green Leland Panther - and very *special* it was too! So join us for poetry on Heritage Open Days theme courtesy of #HampshirePoet + co - Sun 15 Sept 👀 winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
Another great workshop coming up from excellent local poet Raine Geoghegan, MA ⬇️⬇️⬇️
📝 WORKSHOP: Things We Call Home with Susmita Bhattacharya #WPD24 The Arc, Winchester Sat 5 Oct | 10.30 - 12pm Join Susmita Bhattacharya in this poetry workshop celebrating 'home' - £6: winchesterpoetryfestival.org/wpd24 Suitable for: adults of all abilities Duration: 1.5 hrs Format: in person
🌈#WPD24 is taking place ONE MONTH TODAY! Join us at The Arc, Winchester for a day celebrating poetry through workshops, readings, drop-in sessions AND discover the Winchester Poetry Prize Winners for 2024! 🆓🎟️winchesterpoetryfestival.org/wpd24
🎤READINGS: Write A Note Poets #WPD24 The Arc, Winchester Sat 5 Oct | 12.30 - 2pm A jam-packed 90mins of poetry FREE, booking advised: winchesterpoetryfestival.org/wpd24 Write a Note poets explore the theme of 'home'. Guest readings from Writing Our Legacy | Covert 03 Magazine available! Akila Richards + Adriana Lord 🔥
Our Winchester Heritage Open Days event is FULLY SUBSCRIBED. All tickets have been snapped up for Poetry Routes Networks and Connections: a journey on King Alfred's Buses with the Hampshire Poet There *may* be seats available on the day in the event of no-shows 🚌🚌🚌
🎉 Behold the Winchester Poetry Prize 2024 longlist! We received 1956 poems from around the world + Clare Shaw read them all. These 25 dazzling poems are Clare's longlist: winchesterpoetryfestival.org/2024-longlist Winners revealed live at #WPD24 - Sat 5 Oct Paris Smith | The Writing School
