VERVE Poetry Festival COMPETITION
Are you a passionate poet eager to share your work with a vibrant literary community? The VERVE Poetry Festival 2025 is excited to announce its call for submissions! This year,
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Are you a passionate poet eager to share your work with a vibrant literary community? The VERVE Poetry Festival 2025 is excited to announce its call for submissions! This year,
Are you an artist looking for an international residency programme to refine your skills? Look no further as the application period for the Rijksakademie residency year 2025/2026 will kick off
The call for entries for the Ake Arts and Book Festival 2024 is out! “Finding Freedom” has been given as this year’s theme of the festival. Importantly, each creative may
In a celebratory atmosphere, the Committee for Relevant Arts (CORA) and The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), hosted a book party in Lagos over the
Education is like quenching a thirst; parched throats, desert-like bodies roving minds scuttling through time’s lounge puddles on mind-fields, hollow down in drizzles modify into understanding as roots gather and
This year, the Ilkley festival has over 90 events to entertain and inspire with a programme that’s bursting with variety – featuring novelists, celebrities, chefs, scientists, poets, politicians and experts.
The 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize will open for entries from 1 September 2024 to 1 November 2024. The prize is free to enter and open to any citizen of
SEVHAGE Literary and Development Initiative and the ALINEA Initiative are delighted to announce the launch of the Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Nonfiction, funded and administered by their organisations.
The ANNA Award is a prize for women artists from Africa and the African diaspora. It’s given to those who work in art. ANA Pure Organic, a South African company
Remembering What’s Forgotten has launched a new eight-week® poet in residence opportunity for emerging poets of black and South Asian heritage, from Leeds, who wish to explore and centre lived