The image has an orange background with a photo of faciliator Ellie Spirrett. She is a white woman with long brown hair is standing in pink and blue light. She is wearing a black jumpsuit with and white flowers on it. At the top of the image is the Spread the Word, CRIPtic arts and City Bridge Foundation logo in white. Below is the title βconnect through creativityβ in white. On the bottom left of the poster reads β6th October. Writing into the News. With Ellie Spirrettβ in white writing
Join Ellie Spirrett as they lead workshop and host open mic exploring how we tackle world news, hold onto own voices & protect ourselves from burnout.
βοΈ Part of the @cripticarts.bsky.social x Spread the Word Writers Salon.
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Mon 6 October, 6.30pm
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ποΈFREE - book via link tinyurl.com/ywn9pkxa
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Have you discovered BCre8ive yet? Our online networks for adults interested in Music, Art and writing?
This is last weeks prompt, but it's still open
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A black and white headshot of David, smiling at the camera. David wears a pair of rectangular glasses, and a jumper over a checked shirt. The photograph has a bright orange border, and around this is a golden brown honeycomb pattern with another bright orange trim, and the B Cre8ive logo sits in the bottom left hand corner.
Meet our team!
First up, we have our amazing writer, David!
David Stokes has been CEO of The Halpern Charitable Foundation since March 2019, leading the charge in using the arts to combat mental health challenges and social isolation.
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A golden brown honeycomb pattern with a bright orange trim, overlaid with the words ββCarnival Ghosts - Something (or someone) lingers after the Chatham paradeβ, and the B Cre8ive logo.
Looking for inspiration? β¨
We challenge you to create a 200 word piece of flash fiction, an illustration, or a piece of music. Join one of our themed Discords to share your work with our creative community!
A prompt will be posted each week!
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Thank you to those who have already submitted to our Summer Exhibition. For those that haven't this is the politest of reminders that the deadline is midnight on 7 July. Go on - there'll be a party!
www.nucleusarts.com/opencall
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Four performers in a line rehearsing for Autistic as Fuck. Anna, a freckled white woman, with long brown wavy hair, is signing. Next to her, Theo, a pale nonbinary person with dark features and short hair using a power wheelchair, is looking down at a script. Next to them is Kat, a pale woman with dark hair raising arms and smiling. And Evlyne, a black female with brown hair is looking at a script.
Attention!! π£
One week left to apply for our Artist Development Programmes π±
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Applications open now until Sunday 11 May 2025, 5pm!
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#ArtistDevelopment #CRIPticArts
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Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum
The Vagina Museum is one month away from closing β forever
The Vagina Museum will be forced t⦠Vagina Museum needs your support for Save The Vagina Museum
The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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A table to show which Deptford Literature Festival events have sold out or are selling fast. The best way to see this easily is to visit the Deptford Literature Festival page on Eventbrite, where you can also join the waiting lists for sold out shows.
π₯SELL OUT WARNINGπ₯
A third of our #DeptfordLitFest events are already sold out and others are nearly full.
ποΈ Join the waiting lists on Eventbrite and be the first to know if a ticket becomes available. Book early to avoid disappointment!
eventbrite.co.uk/o/deptford-literature-festival-59604520323
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Really excited for this! β¨
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Dark and light blue overlapping swirls and words, such as 'community' and 'stories'. Over the top are the words "1 month to go. Deptford Literature Festival. Thursday 27-Sunday 30 March" in chunky yellow lettering, outlined in black. Beneath is the website deptfordlitfest.com in black lettering, and at the bottom are the Arts Council England, Borough of Literature and Spread the Word logos in black.
1 month until #DeptfordLitFest 2025!
Most events are free but remember to reserve your space via Eventbrite to guarantee entry. Over a third of our events have sold out, so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.
For the full programme and to book your tickets, visit deptfordlitfest.com
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It was lovely to speak to you about Nature Calling!
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Dordi me, but this, & these poems are wonderful β¦
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Thank you so much Nicola! Means a lot that you like them :)
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Today we launch the programme for Deptford Literature Festival 2025! We believe it's our biggest and best ever, but don't just take our word for it. Check out the full programme at www.spreadtheword.org.uk/projects/dep...
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Giving the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language.
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Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
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News, updates and tips from an independent London literary agency representing fiction, nonfiction and children's books.
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
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SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial national award for unpublished fiction by UK based Black and Asian women writers. 2024 winner: Maeve Clarke. Returning 2026.
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Poet. Playwright. Performer.
Swell (Penguin 2025)
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It's our 108th year honoring excellence in journalism and the arts. Visit us at http://pulitzer.org.
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Hedgehog is a teeny one-man-band of a poetry press nobody knows about - shhh!
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Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: https://shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
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Poetry place-the World's 1st Poetry Pharmacy prescribing poetry & more in Bishop's Castle & Oxford Street, London. Poetry on Prescription since 2012
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WELCOME to Salt, one of the UKβs great independent publishers, established in 1999. A family business | Beautiful books you wonβt forget
The largest bookshop of its kind in the UK. Devoted entirely to poetry since 1979
Find us online or in person in heart of Hay on Wye the worlds first Booktown
The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
Our publishing cuts across disciplinary boundaries and blurs the distinctions between theory, practice, fiction and non-fiction
Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. Issue 8 out now! Submissions are open throughout October.
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/