Runnymede International Literary Festival

Tuesday 16th - Saturday 20th March

Events of interest on Saturday 20th:

• 10.30am - 12pm Poetic Practice Workshop: Kristen Kreider (International Building In243) - 20 places
• 12.30 - 1.30pm Students from the MA in Poetic Practice (International Building In243)
• 2 - 3pm Caroline Bergvall and John Hall (Management Auditorium)
• 3.15 - 4.15pm Emily Critchely and Francis Presley (Management Auditorium)
• 4.30 - 5.30pm Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk (Management Auditorium)

Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX

Admission to events is free.

Download full programme.

University of Greenwich: Women's Innovative Poetry & Cross-Genre Work Festival

Wednesday 14th - Friday 16th July

image by Emily Critchley

Emily Critchley:

There will be a celebration of women's innovative poetry & cross-genre work, organised by Carol Watts (Birkbeck University) & myself, taking place this summer at the University of Greenwich (London). The dates are July 14th-16th.

Confirmed writers and speakers so far:

• Alev Adil
• Caroline Bergvall
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis
• Andrea Brady
• Lee Ann Brown
• David Buuck
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
• Mairead Byrne
• Jennifer Cooke
• Corina Copp
• Emily Critchley
• Jean Day
• Jacob Edmund
• Carrie Etter
• Robert Hampson
• Edmund Hardy
• Susana Gardner
• Lisa Jarnot
• Daniel Kane
• Christine Kennedy
• Frances Kruk
• Francesca Lisette
• Marianne Morris
• Redell Olsen
• Holly Pester
• Vanessa Place
• Frances Presley
• Luke Roberts
• Lisa Robertson
• Sophie Robinson
• Rebecca Rosier
• Lisa Samuels
• Eleni Sikelianos
• Juliana Spahr
• Zoë Skoulding
• Cathy Wagner
• Samantha Walton
• Carol Watts
• Sara Wintz

Room 315, King William Building, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS

Admission is free (donations requested).

For anyone unable to make the festival in person, Steve Willey and Alex Davies will be filming proceedings. These will be made available online.

Update on Thursday 11 March, 2010 by Openned

Updated list of readers.

Update on Saturday 22 May, 2010 by Openned

Further updates to list of readers and location of readings.

Update on Monday 5 July, 2010 by Openned

Updates to reader list and room location.

Sean Bonney & Frances Kruk Benefit Reading - Emily Critchley & Caroline Bergvall

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Openned Anthology

edited by Stephen Willey, Alex Davies Published: Jul 07 Publisher: Openned Press Format: PDF Price: £free View free: Home Page (PDF, 1.9MB) Six months in the making, the Openned anthology is an electronic publication of poets that have read at the first nine Openned nights. The anthology is completely free, available in PDF format in parts or as a full document. It is best to download the anthology in parts as it is a big file and it takes a long time to download. Save the file to your hard drive once you have downloaded it so you don't have to download it again every time you want to look at it. Poets featured in this publication:

• Aaron Wells 
• Albert Pellicer 
• Alex Davies 
• Alex MacDonald 
• Allen Fisher 
• Andrea Brady 
• Annabel Emson 
• Ceri Buck 
• Drew Milne 
• Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 
• Emily Critchley 
• Fiona Templeton 
• Francis Crot 
• Graeme Estry 
• Hannah Silva 
• Ian Hunt 
• James Byrne 
• James Harvey 
• Jeff Hilson 
• John Cayley 
• John Sparrow 
• John Stiles 
• Kai Fierle-Hedrick 
• Keston Sutherland 
• Lydia White 
• Marianne Morris 
• Michael Weller 
• Nick Potamitis 
• Piers Hugill 
• Redell Olsen 
• Robert Hampson 
• Rosheen Brennan 
• Rotten Elements 
• Sean Bonney 
• Sophie Robinson 
• Stephen Willey 
• Tim Atkins 
• Ulli Freer 
• Writing Machine / DJ Ed Rusch

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