The deadline for the @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is just around the corner - 18 May! ✍️
It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Wild'.
Find out more and enter: bit.ly/CFWA2025
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🎧 Check out the latest Apples & Snakes podcast episode
Join Yomi Sode and Emmanuel Sugo as they discuss the intersection of poetry, fitness, and cultural storytelling and the many other doors that poetry has opened for them.
Listen here: applesandsnakes.org/2022/10/21/a...
#Podcast #Poetry
03.04.2025 14:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🍃 @applesandsnakes.bsky.social: The Poet’s Performance Lab
Sunday 27th April
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www.lyrafest.com#e126208 #poetry
18.03.2025 17:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Jawdance - Rich Mix
London’s biggest spoken word night is BACK!
Jawdance is this Wednesday! 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌
Join these incredible poets for an evening celebrating #InternationalWomensDay
Kat Francois I Ayan Aden I Sally Pomme Clayton I Desree
📆 Wed 19 March
🕖 Doors 7pm
📍 Rich Mix London
🔗 bit.ly/3I09cyk
#Jawdance #Poetry #OpenMic #ApplesAndSnakes #RichMix
17.03.2025 16:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just over 1 week until Jawdance hits the Rich Mix stage.
This month we're celebrating #InternationalWomensDay with this stellar line up 🌟
Kat Francois I Ayan Aden I Sally Pomme Clayton I Desree
7pm, Wed 19 March.
More here: applesandsnakes.org/event/jawdan...
#PoetryNight #Poetry #OpenMicNight
13.03.2025 10:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The @creativefutureuk.bsky.social Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️
It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Wild'.
Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V
#WritingCommunity
06.02.2025 12:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Miss Yankey
‘Navigating Humans’ clip
Love this from Miss Yankey ❤️
Take a watch as she performs 'Navigating Humans' at Life & Rhymes. Don't miss her as she joins Team Yomi for Jawdance Big Love on 19 Feb!
Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZFn...
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Jawdance is shaping up to be a BIG one this February. Which of our teams can bring the LOVE and win your heart! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Don't miss Jawdance BIG LOVE at Rich Mix on Wed 19 Feb with a quite frankly sensational line up...
More info 👉 applesandsnakes.org/event/jawdan...
27.01.2025 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We're having our staff Xmas meal together today 🍗🎄 so if we don't get back to you today, we'll be stuffed and merrily rolling back into the office tomorrow.
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A black man in a striped yellow, green, back and red long sleeved top and white jeans, sits on crate boxes
We are very excited to finally share the news that Leicester based Ty’rone Haughton will be joining us for the next two years as Trainee Artistic Director - a role created explicitly to address the shortage of potential artistic directors within arts and culture.
applesandsnakes.org/2024/12/09/w...
10.12.2024 18:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Festival will run in Limerick February 21st, 22nd and 23rd 2025 at the Belltable, O’Connell Street. The event continues to honour the life and works of the Limerick author, Kate O’Brien while attracting prominent writers from all over the world.
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14th - 22nd June 2025. Returning for its seventh year, the city’s award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond! #LLF25