HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to #RueCollinge whose #DisabledPoetsPrize winning pamphlet #HowToTrainYourDragon is out today! Such a wonderful and rewarding work. You can get yours at our website here: vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
You can read the #DisabledPoetsPrize winning, shortlisted and highly recommended poems on our website - www.spreadtheword.org.uk/projects/dis...
Congratulations to our #DisabledPoetsPrize winners! Winner of Best Single Poem - Oli Isaac with ‘to whom / it may / concern’. Winner of Best Unpublished Pamphlet - @thewordtinker.bsky.social with HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. Announced earlier today at #DeptfordLitFest.
@cripticarts.bsky.social
12 today the @disabledpoets.bsky.social Disabled Poets Prize 2025 winners will be announced free online + BSL interpretation here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disabled-p... Judged by @pollyrowena.bsky.social Khairani Barokka & Jamie Hale. #poetry #disabledpoetsprize Looking fwd to welcoming new winners!
A light pink poster with the Deptford Literature Festival logo in turquoise lettering in the top right corner. The text on the right of the poster reads "Livestream. Disabled Poets Prize 2025 Winners Announcement, with Jamie Hale, Polly Atkin and Khairani Barokka. Sat 29 Mar, 12pm. Online. Free. Watch the winning announcement, followed by readings from poets in each category. Availale to watch online 30 days after the event". On the left of the poster are the images of Jamie, Polly and Kkairani stacked on top of one another. Jamie Hale, a white person with red hair and beard looks directly towards the camera with a confident smile. They sit in their electric wheelchair in front of vivid red/orange photographers banner, wearing black jeans, a ribbed black turtleneck and a silver floral blazer. A shock of bright pink and orange eyeshadow brings out their green eyes. Polly Atkin, a white woman, stands outside a white cottage, with a green door and green window frames. She looks up off camera to the left. She has shoulder-length brown hair with turquoise tips and wears a black leather jacket over a turquoise jumper. Picture in black and white of Khairani Barokka against a blank grey background. She is in profile, with short black hair, a black top, and silver hoop earrings.
Join us ONLINE to find out the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 winner, followed by readings from the poets in each category.
🗓️Sat 29 Mar, 12pm
📍Online (captioned)
🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/disabled-poets-prize-2025-winners-announcement-tickets-1146266125839
#DeptfordLitFest #DisabledPoetsPrize
Absolutely over the moon to announce that my pamphlet ‘How to train your Dragon’ has been shortlisted for the #DisabledPoetsPrize 2025!
A gold image with the logo in black for Disabled Poets Prize and the words 'Congratulations to the long and shortlisted writers for the 2025 Disabled Poets Prize. Find out more: DisabledPoetsPrize.org.uk"
Spread the Word and @cripticarts.bsky.social are delighted to share the long and shortlist for the 2025 #DisabledPoetsPrize.
✨The prize aims to nurture, encourage and celebrate the talents and successes of deaf & disabled poets✨
Read the announcement 👉 www.spreadtheword.org.uk/announcing-t...
A photo of a Victorian stone chapel in a graveyard with yellow leaved oak tree in front and some headstones, plus a sarcophagus. All the stone has mossy green markings. The morning sky has pale sunlight in it.
Sheffield launch venue looking mint this morning. Exited to rose
-hips & wrap-around wrens in oaks. It’s in the chapel not the sarcophagus btw! 🤣 18 Dec 7pm. Come join @helenmort.bsky.social Fee Hutchings & me bit.ly/4fFHxDo #nowherenearassafeasasnakeinbed #poetry #disabledpoetsprize #sheffield
So this is happening next month. @concordmoose.bsky.social and #HelenMort are launching new works published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
Susie’s pamphlet is the #disabledpoetsprize winner!
18 December 7pm - tickets here www.ticketsource.co.uk/sgct/winters...
1/2
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to #SusieWilson who's brilliant debut pamphlet won @STWevents @CRIPticArts
#DisabledPoetsPrize and is out TODAY! 'Brims with exuberance and invention. Susie Wilson is a dazzling new arrival.’ @pascalepoet
tinyurl.com/3jswm82s 😍
Photo of the same words in the post this pic is attached to, screenshotted from Twitter, plus picture of a white book with multicoloured spiral pattern circle with a white mouse in the middle and the title Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed, next to a photo of the head of Susie, a white middle aged woman with blond hair. She is smiling. All positioned on a pink teal and white background.
From Verve over there…
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to #SusieWilson who's brilliant debut pamphlet won
@STWevents
@CRIPticArts
#DisabledPoetsPrize and is out TODAY! 'Brims with exuberance and invention. Susie Wilson is a dazzling new arrival.’
@pascalepoet
tinyurl.com/3jswm82s 😍
#PoetsOfBluesky
A week & an hour or so from now the mighty mouse that is Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed will launch online with Ellen McAteer & Jennifer Wong. Do please join us for Verve-full readings! #DisabledPoetsPrize #poetry #pamphlets #PoetsOfBluesky #poetrybluesky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/susie-wils...
Picture of a book cover, back cover with quotes, first poem and roses in the dark. see previous post for full description. The book is Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed by Susie Wilson.
Window on what arrived last night! Roses in the dark to celebrate. Thank you Stuart at Verve Poetry Press, Jamie Hale & @pascalepetit.bsky.social Good places to get it are Verve online bit.ly/4e8gIGx #sheffield Juno Books, Rhyme & Reason + me. #poetry #pamplets #PoetsOfBluesky #DisabledPoetsPrize
Four pictures arranged in a window formation with four white pains. First is the cover of a book held in a hand, with nowhere near as safe as a snake in bed as the title, Susie Wilson the author, verve the publisher, in black pink and teal on white, with a multicoloured circle overlaid with a white spiral and white silhouette of a mouse in the middle, next pic is back cover with quotes, third is list of contents and a poem saying ‘summer of 76, sun (in very large letters) baby (underneath in much smaller letters), fourth pic is yellow roses lit up against dark blue night sky.
Window on what arrived last night! Roses in the dark to celebrate. Thank you to Stuart at Verve Poetry Press, Jamie Hale and @pascalepetit.bsky.social Good places to get it are Verve’s online shop, in #sheffield Juno Books, Rhyme & Reason + me. #poetry #pamplets #PoetsOfBluesky #DisabledPoetsPrize
From Spread The Word:
Fancy a creative boost before you submit to the 2025 #DisabledPoetsPrize?
Join 2024 Best Single Poem Prize winner
@GKamalakan
for a free, BSL interpreted online workshop exploring ways to edit your poems into shape.
Thurs 10 Oct, 6.30pm-8pm,
Book here: bit.ly/4dMlaLF.
Are you thinking about entering the 2025 #DisabledPoetsPrize?
Come and join Best Unpublished Pamphlet Prize winner 2024
@concordmoose
at a free, BSL interpreted online workshop as she shares how pamphlets come together.
Weds 9 Oct, 6.30pm-8pm,
Book now: bit.ly/4e6X9Pj
#poetry #disabled #writing
From t’other place:
by Spread the Word
🧵2025 #DisabledPoetsPrize is now open for deaf & disabled UK poets!
🏆Best Single Poem
🏆Best Unpublished Pamphlet
This year's judges are
@JamieRHale
@pollyrowena
& Khairani Barokka!
Subs close: 1pm 4 Nov,
Free entry/£7 donation.
disabledpoetsprize.org.uk
