We are delighted to announce the results of our prose and poetry competition on the theme of Islands. You'll be able to hear the winners, runners up and judges read at our event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on 18 October.

This month’s Poetry Cafe at Cheltenham Library will be on Friday 31st July at 1pm. We are delighted to have the lovely Iris Lewis as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. See you there. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

Hello #WomenWriters and #WritingCommunity, this week it's @nastasyaparker.bsky.social hosting the channel from Gloucestershire, UK. It seems a busy time of year for us writers: festivals, competitions, summer publications. What's happening for you this week?

This event is on a week today. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 26th June 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Frank McMahon as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

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So many good poets!Including @zoebrooks.bsky.social @daydreamacademy.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @gosspoems.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social @adamhorovitz.bsky.social @jlmmorton.bsky.social I could & should go on, but I'm there throughout & hope to hear all!

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 26th June at 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Frank McMahon as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

Good morning, #WomenWriters! I'm @nastasyaparker.bsky.social hosting the channel this week from Gloucestershire, UK. What's happening in your writing life this week? #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Thank you to all who entered our prose and poetry competition on the theme of Islands. The entries will shortly be sent to the judges and the results should be announced through our subscribers' list and social media around the third week of July.

3 DAYS TO GO to enter our prose & poetry competition on the theme of Islands for #Gloucs #SouthGloucs writers of 16 and over. £200 prizes for winners in each category, £100 second prizes. CLOSING DATE MIDNIGHT 31ST MAY Find all info here gloswriters.org.uk/competition/

4 DAYS TO GO to enter our prose & poetry competition on the theme of Islands for #Gloucs #SouthGloucs writers of 16 and over. £200 prizes for winners in each category, £100 second prizes. CLOSING DATE MIDNIGHT 31ST MAY. Find all info here gloswriters.org.uk/competition/

Sunday is the final day! We’re eager to read your poems for Issue 9.2 and the River Heron Poetry Prize. You’ll find our submission page on Submittable.

5 DAYS TO GO to enter our prose & poetry competition on the theme of Islands for #Gloucs #SouthGloucs writers of 16 and over. £200 prizes for winners in each category, £100 second prizes. CLOSING DATE MIDNIGHT 31ST MAY Find all info here gloswriters.org.uk/competition/

ONE WEEK TO GO to enter our prose & poetry competition on the theme of Islands for #Gloucs #SouthGloucs writers of 16 and over. £200 prizes for winners in each category, £100 second prize. Find all info here gloswriters.org.uk/competition/

War leaves marks that don’t fade. Write from that place. #DoveCry #Slimline #AntiWarPoetry #AmWriting

Just 3 weeks to go to enter our prose & poetry competition on the theme of Islands for #Gloucs #SouthGloucs writers of 16 and over. £200 prizes for winners in each category, £100 second prize. Find all info here gloswriters.org.uk/competition/

Just over a month to go to enter our prose & poetry competition on the theme of Islands for #Gloucs #SouthGloucs writers of 16 and over. £200 prizes for winners in each category, £100 second prize. Find all info here gloswriters.org.uk

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library is on TOMORROW Friday 24th April 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Derek Healy as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. We will be located in the Local Studies Area. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social

Please don’t forget this event is a week today. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 24th April 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Derek Healy as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 24th April at 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Derek Healy as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

Happy World Book Day! A day to celebrate. We have an online shop for #Gloucs and #SouthGloucs writers on our website and welcome submissions of your publications gloswriters.org.uk/shop/

Hope to see you TOMORROW. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 27th February 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Peter McDade as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

We're delighted with our article on pp 9 - 12 in Cheltenham Arts Council's magazine Perspectives about last year's competition and our event at Cheltenham Lit Fest which includes our winning writers' work. Click here to read www.cheltenhamartscouncil.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 27th February at 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Peter McDade as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

Don’t forget this event is on a week today. Poetry Cafe at Cheltenham Library will be on Friday 30th January at 1pm. We are delighted to have Christine Whittemore and Ruth End as guests. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

We are currently open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #submissionsopen #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines...

Tennyson's early Lincolnshire wanderings,poems of wild grief for his lost friend,the shock of science upon world views! Highly recommended!.A query, please,for the one & only poetry workshop I mean to do (Buzzwords, Cheltenham, Feb). Have you read 'In Memoriam'? Do you think it works as a whole?

Our 2026 competition on the theme of Islands, judged by David Clarke (poetry) and Mandy Robotham (prose), is now open to writers of 16 and over who live, work or study in #Gloucs and #SouthGloucs. Prizes include £200 for each category winner & £100 second prizes. More info on gloswriters.org.uk

This event is on a week today. Poetry Cafe Chelt. Library will be on Friday 28th November 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Chris Hemingway as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. No event in December. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 28th November at 1.00pm. We are delighted to have the wonderful Chris Hemingway as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. No event in December. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

Don’t forget this event is on a week today. Poetry Cafe at Cheltenham Library will be on Friday 31st October at 1pm. We pm are delighted to have the lovely Sharon Larkin as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social

Our 2025 competition anthology on the theme of Edges is now for sale in our online shop. Read the work of our winners, Judith Green, Kate Levett and Laura Cassel, the runners up and highly commended as well as judges Kate Potts and Jamila Gavin gloswriters.org.uk/shop/gwn-anthology-2025/

Don't be conflicted -- collaborate your poet's voice with your creative instincts, and explore this theme of today. With a chance of a chunk of cash at the end of it. wildfire-words.com/c-or-c/

Poetry Cafe at Cheltenham Library will be on Friday 31st October at 1pm. We are delighted to have the lovely Sharon Larkin as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

Thanks to all who made our event at //cheltlitfest on Saturday 18th such a success, to our prose and poetry winners and judges and to the Festival staff who enabled it to go so well. Our 2025 anthology will be available on our website to buy soon gloswriters.org.uk

We're looking forward to the GWN event this Saturday, 18th and hearing the work of our prizewinners as well as of the 2 judges, Jamila Gavin and Kate Potts. If you haven't booked already all details are here www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/glouc...

It's National Poetry Day! We'll be celebrating all day - stay tuned to our socials so you don't miss a thing 👀🎉 Wherever you are, The Poetry Society wishes you a very happy National Poetry Day in the company of poetry.

Hope to see you TOMORROW. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 26th September 1.00pm hosted by Annie Ellis. We are delighted to have the wonderful Dan Papworth as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

Please don’t forget this event is a week today. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 26th September 1.00pm hosted by Annie Ellis. We are delighted to have Dan Papworth as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social

Gloucestershire poets! Here's the Buzzwords competition with a section just for you-deadline now 30 SEPTEMBER! All poets: 70 lines, excellent judge @rorywaterman.bsky.social, chance to read your poem, cash prize, support for Buzzwords,a most welcoming inclusive poetry event! LINK IN COMMENTS.

Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 26th September at 1.00pm hosted by Annie Ellis. We are delighted to have the wonderful Dan Papworth as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share or just listen. Free coffee. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social

Our village's last suspected 'witch'! From stories as late as the 1930s!There will be 3 more videos telling Mary Ann's story,with many twists. Do follow me to keep up (& you can read more in my prose book, 'Village'. Paperback £9.99 Kindle edition 99p!) SEARCH FOR ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON

Our village's last suspected 'witch'! From Lincolnshire stories as late as the 1930s!There will be 4 more videos about Mary Ann, with many twists. Do follow me to keep up (& you can read more in my prose book', 'Village'. Paperback £9.99 Kindle edition 99p!) SEARCH ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON

Authors heading to Rossiter Books this autumn... We think this is a pretty impressive line-up Tickets on sale for all these events, early booking recommended shorturl.fm/ocGLM

Thanks to early entrants to our popular Open Submissions for poems or flash fiction. Still lots more to review. Plus YOURS? Details: wildfire-words.com/os8/

Limericks are best spoken was agreed by all the poets selected to feature in wildfire words' 3rd Limerick Anthology. You can hear all their work at wildfire-words.com/kep-2025/

Hope to see you TOMORROW. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library is on Friday 25th July 1.00pm hosted by @anniecsky.bsky.social We are delighted to have the lovely Iris Anne Lewis as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social

Please don’t forget this event is on a week today. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library is on Friday 25th July 1.00pm hosted by @anniecsky.bsky.social We are delighted to have the lovely Iris Anne Lewis as guest. @wildfirewords.bsky.social @josephinelay.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social

Poem of the Day: Ode to Joy by Gillian Clarke poemsontheunderground.org/ode-to-joy