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2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, and to celebrate, we’re teaming up with Jane Austen’s House and poet Janine Bradbury to ask you to write a poem inspired by Jane Austen’s humour. This challenge is for writers aged up to 25 based anywhere in the world. The deadline is 23:59 GMT, Sunday 28 […]| Young Poets Network
In 2024, The Poetry Society ran Camden Young Writers, a writing and development programme that aimed to equip young writers in the London Borough of Camden with the tools they’d need for a creative career and the chance to form a writing community. We caught up with participant Aya to learn about her experience.| Young Poets Network
In our fourth and final August challenge of 2021, Foyle Young Poet Anisha Minocha invites you to use the form of a letter (or postcard, or note, or email, or text, or DM) to write a poem.| Young Poets Network
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In 2020, Foyle Young Poet Cia Mangat founded Zindabad, a print and online zine showcasing artists from diasporas across the world. We wanted to know: how did she do it? Why did she do it? And how can you start your own zine, too?| Young Poets Network
In 2024, The Poetry Society ran Camden Young Writers, a writing and development programme that aimed to equip young writers in the London Borough of Camden with the tools they’d need for a creative career and the chance to form a writing community. Young Poets Network caught up with participant Aya Elgool to learn about her experience of the programme.| Young Poets Network
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Today, Foyle Young Poets Freya Gillard and Jennie Howitt invite you to explore the wonderful world of bogs, including their rich history and ecology, and to get inspired to write your own poems about our awesome and precious peatland ecosystems. | Young Poets Network
A chunky Victorian novel, a popular science book, Romeo and Juliet and a doctor’s leaflet: what do they all have in common? They are the source materials for new poems, for erasure poems – the theme of our latest challenge.| Young Poets Network
You’ve written a brilliant poem and you want to share it with the world: but how? In this feature, we offer six top tips for publishing your poems and getting your work out there, plus a handy glossary of terms. | Young Poets Network
What happens when a poem moves across languages, cultures, and histories? We’re teaming up with world-leading journal Modern Poetry in Translation for the fifth time as they celebrate their sixtieth anniversary. Marketing and Communications Assistant (and YPNer!) Chloe Elliott invites you to dive into the MPT archive, and let your discoveries spark new poetic creations.| Young Poets Network
Ever reached for a contemporary love poem – or an anti-love poem! – and not known where to start? We’ve got you covered! This Valentine’s Day, we’ve rummaged through the Young Poets Network archives for our favourites. | Young Poets Network
Acclaimed US poet, teacher and editor Peter Kahn explains the new poetic form that Ravi Shankar calls the ‘21st century sonnet’ – and challenges you to write your own.| Young Poets Network
Sure, you’ve conquered sonnets, and you’re a dab hand at haikus. Erasure poems are yesterday’s news and your shovel is already golden, thank you very much. It’s time to tick something else off your poetry glossary and master a new form.| Young Poets Network
Here at Young Poets Network, we love to see poems that innovate and push the boundaries of poetry! So we’re teaming up with the Estorick Collection to challenge you to write poems that break a rule in some way.| Young Poets Network
Roses are red, violets are blue, in today’s Young Poets Network challenge, we’re asking you… to once again think about using poetic form in your writing! Enter the humble couplet.| Young Poets Network
Over the past year, The Poetry Society has been collaborating with the University of Exeter and the South West Peatland Partnership on the Bog Talk project, funded by Natural England, to encourage education and creative engagement with peatland landscapes. In November 2024, a group of creatives, peat restorers, scientists and archeologists came together for a day’s discussion about bogs in Exeter, followed by a poetry reading. Young Poets Networker Freya Gillard reports on how the day unfol...| Young Poets Network
Ever tried to learn a poem by heart and wondered how the pros do it? In this feature, Young Poets Network chatted to Alicja, a winner of the 2024 Poetry By Heart competition.| Young Poets Network
In our second August Challenge of 2024, Foyle Young Poet Noah Gower-Jones is asking you to dive deep into your relationship with the world underwater… | Young Poets Network
We’re teaming up with Rotherham-based green engineering firm AESSEAL to challenge young poets to write poems that explore the habitats we share with non-human earthlings. Poet Caleb Parkin offers some prompts for imagining building a world where we can coexist with birds, bugs, and bears…| Young Poets Network
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Lights, camera, poem! We’re teaming up with the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, based at the University of Exeter, to challenge you to get inspired by your favourite films.| Young Poets Network
Steph’s Poetry Space was a pilot project that took place in secondary schools around the UK in autumn 2023 with the support of the Steph Lampl Foundation. Bringing together poetry and wellbeing, the project offered poets, teachers and sixth-formers the chance to take part in online CPD sessions where they explored creative reading and writing.| Young Poets Network
Every year, we ask Foyle Young Poets to challenge you to write poems in new ways: in the first challenge of 2024, Cameron Calonzo is asking you to look into the future and write about what you can (fore)see.| Young Poets Network
The challenge: write a poem of up to 24 lines that makes use of rhyme, metre, and/or stanza breaks.| Young Poets Network
So you’ve written the first draft of a poem, but now what? We asked some of our favourite poets, including published poets, Foyle Young Poets and Young Poets Networkers, for editing tips they wish they’d known when they started writing. Save this page and come back to it next time you’re stuck with a draft!| Young Poets Network
In the second instalment of our Poetry Toolbox feature series, we’re exploring metre. | Young Poets Network
We’re publishing a series of mini-features on Young Poets Network all about the different poetry tools you can use to shape and develop your writing. Later on this summer, we’ll be launching a challenge where you can show off your skills with these poetry tools: keep an eye on our website to find out when it opens for entries!| Young Poets Network
Let’s cook up some poems together! We’re teaming up with the Garden Museum to get you inspired to write poems about growing and cooking food.| Young Poets Network
Thinking about entering this year’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, but not sure how to get started? We caught up with Tyra Alamu, a Top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2023, about how she wrote her winning poem ‘Not black enough.’| Young Poets Network
Shhh… can you hear that? We’re teaming up with People Need Nature and poet Polly Atkin to challenge you to think about the role sound plays in our relationship with nature. Send us poems about cooing pigeons, chattering chaffinches, bickering blackbirds…| Young Poets Network
Out with the old, in with the… old? Poets have been using ancient mythology as the basis for their writing for hundreds of years: today, we’re challenging you to re-invent myths, and even make up some of your own!| Young Poets Network
Roses are red, violets are blue, today on Young Poets Network we’ve got a new challenge for you…| Young Poets Network
In a busy world, take a peaceful moment for yourselves. Following poet Seán Hewitt’s writing prompts, submit your poems on peace by 12 September and take part in an international poetry programme that will bring people together from across the world.| Young Poets Network
Have you ever had to do a self-portrait in an art lesson at school? Today, we’re challenging you to write self-portrait poems: you can be as realistic, or as abstract, as you like… | Young Poets Network
Many poets use forms like sonnets, villanelles or sestinas to give shape to their work, but many others find their rules and tight structures restrictive. In this feature, Foyle Young Poet Lauren Lisk explores the paradox of Black writers using these formal constraints to open up the possibilities of their poems.| Young Poets Network
You’ve probably heard Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous ‘I Have a Dream‘ speech — but did you know that it was influenced by the spoken word poetry of American poet Langston Hughes, or that the speech has since heavily influenced countless Black British spoken word artists? In this feature, Foyle Young Poet Amy Saunders offers a brief history of Black British spoken word: read on for more…| Young Poets Network
Young Poets Network is teaming up with the Portland Japanese Garden for the second time to ask young poets worldwide to write about cultivating peace. This time, Oluwaseun Olayiwola invites you to take some quiet time to reflect. | Young Poets Network
