VERVE Poetry Festival
@vervepoetryfest
Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
www.vervepoetryfestival.com/submit-poem-of-the-month-competition
This could be you, reading at our festival on 2026 because you entered VERVE Poem of the Festival and won, or got shortlisted …. You’ve got till tomorrow at midnight to send your poems. www.vervepoetryfestival.com/competition-open
Just 4 days left to enter our POEM OF THE FESTIVAL competition x DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 20th CATEGORIES: ADULTS / YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 11-17 ENTRY FEE: ADULTS ONLY. First poem £6, 3 for £14, or 5 for £19 www.vervepoetryfestival.com/competition-open
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Happy New Year Poets! Could you write our poem of the festival for 2026? Submission close January 20th. £500 prize + publication x www.vervepoetryfestival.com/poetry-competition
Come on then www.vervepoetryfestival.com/submit-poem-of-the-month-competition
Closing for applications for WIP this coming Friday. www.vervepoetryfestival.com/wip-submission-form
Closes midnight poets. www.vervepoetryfestival.com/submit-poem-...
A Heads-up. After our wonderful pop-up event at @BhamLitFest at the weekend we return to our home #HiveJewelryQuater on Tuesday 21st Oct from 6.30pm (7.30 start). Open mic only, for poets brand new or old hands. Let us know you're coming! tinyurl.com/5y3dm94r
Keeping poetry alive between festivals. Join our community for a monthly writing hour, insider reflections, and early-bird access to workshops and tickets.
This gorgeous poem shortlisted in July by Dean Atta noticed grapefruit segments as invitations for personal and relational change x
Nesting Grounds Milla van der Have Shortlisted September.
Offer applies to ALL books incl this year's top paperbacks from #PascalePetit @BloodaxeBooks #SarahHowe @ChattoBooks #FionaBenson @JonathanCape #RichardScott @FaberBooks and preorders from #TishaniDoshi #KarenMcCarthyWoolf @DaljitNagra4 and #AdaLimon and more! ❤️ vervepoetrybookshop.com
OUR ONLINE BOOKSHOP NEWSLETTER has just dropped announcing our special October offer - across all titles for October only we are offering a 20% discount for a £30 spend. Offer lasts until midnight on 31st Oct. Click through to read more: tinyurl.com/mrx5s77a 😍
Refugee Handbook Chiwenite Onyekwelu Shortlisted in June
Progress log @kadienewman.bsky.social Shortlisted in August.
A poetry competition for our poetry community is here. Submit a poem by midnight on Saturday please. Your words deserve to be read, even if the letters were not.
Read in full - open.substack.com/pub/vervepoetry/p/poet-interview-minal-sukumar?r=27ea6r&utm_medium=ios
Throw your poem in the hat for Septembers POEM OF THE MONTH www.vervepoetryfestival.com/submit-poem-of-the-month-competition