In December I Am Loud Productions was turned down for a similar amount of money. We had to struggle through, change plans, work for free and re-apply. How does the Scottish Government decide who is worthy of intervention in event of a no from Creative Scotland? Angus Robertson Ben Macpherson MSP?

New Video Release! Link: youtu.be/a_x5zrjzC74 A contrapuntal love poem from Bex Bidgood ✨! In Bex's poem, there are two columns of text that can be read vertically or horizontally to create two different poems, both read aloud here.

New Video You April Fools! Link: youtu.be/Sj0c4b8P5yY What if life were a video game? Mark Gallie revisited one of his earliest poems for our 10th birthday show!

An Oldie but an actually no too baddie!

Join us for our Central Heat Slam in Edinburgh! Taking place at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the 19th April with our brilliant sacrificial poet Georgia Bartlett-McNeil! Sign up to compete: forms.gle/8YzvoNXAZzhzjA… Tickets for sale: …storytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5311…

Full Show Release! Link: youtu.be/8FA4t62e5Ko In February 2024 we celebrated our 10th birthday! We kept it close to home, featuring Katie Ailes, Kevin Mclean, Mark Gallie, Callum O'Dwyer, and Jack Hinks at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

New video! Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=BUiyPV… Last month we celebrated International Women's Day with Speak Up!, a star-studded poetry showcase! One of our features, Georgia Bartlett-McNeil, performed this deeply powerful poem about challenging relationships.

New video! Link: youtu.be/XrjVGYfqN1Q In March 2024 we celebrated International Women's Day with a star-studded poetry showcase! Soup, swagger, and sieves - a sweet love poem from @rosiejohunter!

Tickets are selling fast! Grab yours now to avoid disappointment!

New Video! Link: youtu.be/5itO2_PtScQ Last month we celebrated International Women's Day with Speak Up!, a star-studded poetry showcase! From Amy Jo Philip, a gorgeous Scots poem on maturing, transition, and love.

Two weeks to go until this absolutely brilliant event!

New video! Link: youtu.be/6BHTWB5oFLw In March 2024 we celebrated International Women's Day with a star-studded poetry showcase! Speak Up! Here we saw a gorgeous, evocative poem from Annie Brechin on desire and coming of age.

New Full Show Release! Link: youtu.be/9qQLuKnwTlY In March 2024 we celebrated International Women's Day with a star-studded poetry showcase! The event celebrated the diversity of women's experiences and raised funds for the @EdinRapeCrisis.

Massive congrats to the wonderful @LeylaJosephine1 - so well earned! Amazing to see a great Scottish talent get her flowers. We're also over the moon that a poem we've filmed at one of our Loud Poets shows has won this award both years the category has existed!

Last show of the year! Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club 6pm £10 💫 Caleb 💫 Maria Ferguson (Abbott) 🐼 💫 GOBS Collective Hongwei Bao (he/him) 💫 Mark Gallie 💫 catmilkcatmilkcatmilk 💫 @repeatbeatpoet Hosted by Bridie Squires and Jake Wild-Acre Hall peggysskylight.co.uk/events/bad-bet…

Can’t wait for this!

Artist 🧵 4 days until the final Bad Betty live of the year. Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club 6pm £10 💫 Caleb 💫 Amy Acre 💫 GOBS Collective Hongwei Bao (he/him) 💫 Mark Gallie 💫 catmilkcatmilkcatmilk 💫 @repeatbeatpoet Hosted by Bridie Squires and Jake Wild-Acre Hall peggysskylight.co.uk/events/bad-bet…

Big announcement from our Creative Director Kevin Mclean regarding changes to our Patreon tiers and launching our YouTube Membership! Watch it here: youtu.be/gng7zkA4Gxk

We've spent years building an incredible archive of spoken word shows! We have well over 50 full length featuring the likes of @harrybakerpoet, Yomi Ṣode 🇳🇬, @HanLavery, @LeylaJosephine1, joelle taylor, Tony Walsh, @ScribePedersen, Jasmine Gardosi and loads more! Well worth it.

A big update: