Worcestershire Poet Laureate, Ade Couper & Blog Post#1

Ade Couper shares the first season of his Laureateship with us here.

Winners of the Young Writer Competition

Congratulations to all who entered the YW competition 2021. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, The Story Knights, prizes were still possible this year. In addition to trophies, certificates and book tokens winners also received a book from The Story Knights according to category – Max & Luchia (Y3-6), Jimmy Cricket (Y7-9) and The

WPL in the Worcester News

‘Worcestershire’s new Poet Laureate vows to get “hard-to-reach” communities more involved’ read the full article (10th June) here.

Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2021-22

Congratulations go to Ade Couper, who was crowned the 11th Worcestershire Poet Laureate on the 6th June at the Launch of Worcestershire LitFest & Fringe Mini Festival 2021. His blog posts will appear here later in the year. The official handover with Leena Batchelor (WPL 2020-21).

Worcestershire LitFest Mini Festival Rolling Blog

In just under 2 hours we will be celebrating the Launch of WLF Mini Festival 2021! Worcestershire Poet Laureate Final, Young Writer Competition winners and Flash Fiction Competition winners. A performance by 2020-2021 WPL, Leena Batchelor and a chance to hear the new WPL perform again. The Launch had all the excitement of a real

WLF Mini-Fest 2021

Excited to announce the 2nd WLF Mini-Festival 2021! Come and join us 6th-11th June. Keep up to date with Festival announcements here.

Worcestershire LitFest & Fringe Mini-Fest 2021

Watch out for more news on our mini-fest COMING SOON! Save the Date – 6th-11th June 2021.

SpeakEasy April 8th

To find out more about SpeakEasy click the link under the poster. Our next SpeakEasy will be on Thursday 8th April at 7:30 pm (GMT/UCT+01). SpeakEasy is usually on the 2nd Thursday of the month and are currently held bi-monthly on Zoom. The optional theme for April is Spring. All 6 minute spots have been

WLF Young Writers Competition 2021

For full T&Cs click the link under the poster. Good Luck!

WLF Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2021-22

If you live in Worcestershire… it could be you! For full T&Cs click the link under the poster. Good Luck!