🤗 It’s @VolunteersWeek and we want to say thank you to our brilliant volunteers. Winchester Poetry Festival simply would not happen without them!
In a world of AI, the human touch is more important than ever.
It truly is the *people* that make our festival, so very special.
📣 #HampshirePoet June blog is here!
✊🏾 It explores Black Poetry + is written by #performancepoet + #Southampton-based storyteller Pab Low
Pab says: "... black poetry, quite rightly does, has and will always, categorically refuse, to be categorised."
👀 https://t.co/ZNCYzGfRzE
👋 OH HI! 👋
Placeholder Poetry #8: @amykgrandvoinet, Abbi Mitchell, Emma Tanner
📌Bookshop Alehouse #Southampton
🗓️Thurs 23 July
A banging line-up of magical poets!
Toiletries donation point for Basics Bank
Raffle proceeds to Yellow Door
🎟️ https://t.co/PiVWylhbkt
We welcome June with a great series of #creative#workshops! Come join us!
💧2x Downs to the Sea workshops. #Free entry. Open to all.
✏️A @brightbookfest workshop with @SeaThePoet & a WOL Creative's Network Member Meetup afterwards!
Book your tickets: https://t.co/RpBmZyLw9N
We love @WinchesterHods and will be celebrating the @heritageopenday theme this year with...
📝Everyday Histories: poetry wordshop + sharing session with #HampshirePoet
📌Pilgrims’ Hall @PilgrimsSchool
📆 Sat 19 Sept | 10:30am-12pm
🎟️https://t.co/cIm5Utf7NZ
All welcome!
Just 2️⃣ months until Winchester Poetry Prize closes!
📧 📮We accept entries by email AND post, and all eligible entries will be read by our superstar judge @JuliaCopus
Learn more, and get writing: https://t.co/eT3R547hAV
Last year we had over 2,000 entries from 34 countries."
Winchester Poetry Festival is encouraging people to enter poems for the Winchester Poetry Prize.
Additional to the top prize of £1,000 winning poems will be published for posterity.
Entries close Friday 31st July.
🎂🥢Hampshire Young Poets' competition is open until 22 May!
#HampshirePoet Damian has provided these prompts to help youngsters cook up their foodie poems!
🫵https://t.co/4lWqHGPFTz
Thank you @Bookwells@ParisSmithLLP#HelloWinchester
2️⃣ poetry competitions open for you!
Hampshire Young Poets closes FRIDAY!
Entries accepted online or @Bookwells
Details: https://t.co/4lWqHGPFTz
👩🏾💻Winchester Poetry Prize 2026 is open, and @JuliaCopus is waiting for your poems!
Email + postal accepted: https://t.co/DNZubXsPj0
Last year we had over 2,000 entries from 34 countries."
Winchester Poetry Festival is encouraging people to enter poems for the Winchester Poetry Prize.
Additional to the top prize of £1,000 winning poems will be published for posterity.
Entries close Friday 31st July.
If you contributed to the Community Poem Bunting at this year's @BmthWritingFest - it's up!
It's hanging in the atrium at Bournemouth Library for all to enjoy - do take a look.
Writing Worlds, the 2026 NAWE Online Conference, is open for proposals for presentations and workshops in 3 categories!
🟢Research + innovation
🟢Projects + participation
🟢Professional + personal development.
Info + deadlines: https://t.co/xOyL2NSIPI
Still some time to enter Hampshire Young Poets competition 2026!
You can do so via the link below, OR in person at @bookwells charming Poetry Desk!
https://t.co/biVAZvKoRo
Lovely to see @Bookwells Poetry Desk with its drawers of ideas to inspire children and young people to send in their poems about food! Just a few weeks left to enter Hants Young Poets comp @WinPoetryFest and @ Hants Cult Trust.
📚Here's Damian Kelly-Basher's blog for May!
After 2yrs as #HampshirePoet, Damian reflects on ways to keep developing yourself as a poet:
"it’s easy to get hung up about your development or status as a poet. So, remember to keep enjoying what you do"
https://t.co/ZNCYzGfRzE
"I guess I got the bug."
The Hampshire Poet Laureate has shared a poem he wrote for his friend's daughter aged 10, ahead of Winchester Poetry Day.
The poetry day takes place on Saturday the 10th of October organised by Winchester Poetry Festival.