A quick reminder that there are just two days left to get your event proposals in (cut-off midnight March 31st). So get them in!
Those offering performance spaces or wishing to volunteer as Festival Friends have a little more time to register interest, but why put off until tomorrow what can be done today?
Links to all three forms below.
Yes, February’s run its course and as we slip from winter into spring it’s time to begin planning in earnest for this year’s festival. The cut-off for event proposals is March 31st, which gives you a month to get your details to us for inclusion in the programme running between Sunday June 5th and Sunday June 26th.
Of course there’s more to a festival than just the events themselves: every event needs a venue, and there’s also the nuts and bolts stuff behind the scenes holding the whole thing together. The links below cover all three options, so whatever your interest (or interests) just follow the links below and fill in the forms! Don’t worry too much if you haven’t got all the details finalised yet, just give us as much information as you can to get the ball rolling.
Our final “Call to Action” for now is the simplest of all: if you know people who enjoy poetry as much as you do get them on board! Social media is all well and good but there’s nothing like word of mouth and personal recommendation to really build the buzz. Better yet, point your friends to the website and get them to sign up for the mailing list too.
More news soon, and get those proposals in ASAP!
Things will be happening thick and fast as we move closer to June and the start of this year’s festival. Make sure you hear it first by joining our mailing list. Just enter your email in the box under the promo video, click the button and we’ll do the rest!
On the cusp of a restricted Christmas and a New Year that may well open with another lockdown we would like to share our optimism for delivering an even bigger and better festival than our marvellous 2021 offering in 2022. We would also take this opportunity to thank those who helped us make it happen.
If you enjoyed last year’s festival and would like to be more actively involved please contact us. We will make good use of your talents whatever your area of expertise or interest. For the latest news you can follow us here on the website (link in the footer of every page) or on any/all of our social media accounts. We’ll be adding new ways of supporting the festival and keeping abreast of all the latest goings on early in the New Year. In the meantime, have wonderful holidays all, despite the complexities and restrictions.
Following an amazingly successful series of events for 2021 the festival committee met on Friday evening to officially wind up this year and start planning for 2022. Early days, but with a packed two week programme now under our belts despite the uncertainties arising from Covid and its lockdowns we feel confident that we can deliver an even bigger and better festival next year.
This year has been a major learning curve, but the universally positive feedback we have received has reassured us that we’re very much on the right track. Our aim from the outset was to deliver “poetry for all, big and small” and our community events certainly lived up to that intention. Next year, with fewer restrictions (we hope!) to contend with we’ll be offering many more opportunities for local poets to share their writing, for lovers of poetry to share their enthusiasm, and for those who might think that poetry isn’t their thing to discover that they DO like poetry after all!
As the final word on 2021 we would like to thank again everyone involved in getting the festival off the ground and all those who contributed their time and skills to creating the various events and workshops. A huge thank you too to all who attended those events, whether online or in the real world: we couldn’t have done it without you!
The gallery below features some highlights from this year. We were mostly too busy reading or listening to get our cameras out, so forgive us if your favourite event isn’t featured. Better yet, if you took pictures or video why not send them in and we’ll add them to the website…
Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival