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To add spice to The Battle of the #Bards The War of the #Wordsmiths clash of Champions Farrago Poetry have confirmed Sunday’s Grand #slam will compete in the England National Slam Picture is anja who won 2024 Dreadingslam Sun Jan 5th Rising Sun Arts RG1 2ST 19:30

Hopefully both poets and audience alike will be having fun tomorrow night. We can hardly wait to hear all of our finalists

1 more sleep ‘til the premier poetry event of the year in Reading Town. It’s the Dreading Grand Slam Rising Sun Arts where you can witness the best 11 performance bards compete for the title of Dreading Slam Champion & qualify for the nationals. Join us at 7.30pm

Congratulations Jay Woods on winning the Dreading Grand Slam this evening at Rising Sun Arts and becoming our 2024 Champion. A victory that was very well deserved

Thanks to all the #poets and audiences who helped @Dreadingslam make #poetry fun in 2024 our 1st #openmic of 2025 is Feb 2nd 19:30 @risingsunarts . First chance to qualify for the 2026 Grand #Slam and follow of Jay Woods , our current champion #poetrychallenge #rdguk

How do you fill the blank pages? Sat 15:00 This month’s #Bards in The Bar, the subject is #writer s block and how to overcome it. Everyone welcome, #free Siren RG1 1 Friars Walk, Reading RG1 1EP Sat Jan 11th 14:00 #writersoftwitter #poetrycommunity #creative

Lots of #poetry in #rdguk his weekend Friday Poets' Cafe South Street Arts Centre 20:30 Sat #bards in a Bar Siren RG1 Friar st. Sun #openmic 19:00 Rising Sun Arts RG1 2ST #Community #Berkshire

regrettably the Sunday #spokenword #openmic has been cancelled. #poetry in the park will be on Saturday morning as normal

The #ParkPoets meet Saturday 186h for #poetry in the park at 11:00 for sharing #poems Chat, coffee and breakfast. TutusEthiopianTable in Palmer Park Reading #Berkshire. You are welcome to join us. Free parking for up to 2 hours #RdgUk #poetry #writingcommunity

As well as usual #Slam Dreadingslam has a quickfire each month Sun Feb 02 19:30 @Risingsunarts theme is up to 5 lines of #poetry on place. The quick fire is #openmic and is won by the loudest cheer The show is #free so join/watch the #rdguk poetry community

Link to Video of @Dreadingslam #poets making #poetry fun at local #openmic ( BoHo #openmicNight at the Fishermans Cottage #RdgUK .) GillianPassman performs one of her “odd couple sketch” with Park poets founder John giles facebook.com/1293291983/vid…

We’ll be there

Should be a good night (and it’s free)

The @Dreadingslam #captioncontest has begun To enter go to Dreading #slam FB group page And write a #copulet below this pic facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10… vote for you favorite with like button #poetrychallenge

The @Dreadingslam #captioncompetition is still live, and you can be the judge of that! as well as taking part. To vote, use the Like to like any #captions you like, as often as you like. Vote early vote often. #humour #creative #poetrychallenge

Mon is start of independent venues week UK’s annual celebration of #music & #arts venues Amongst those taking part is the Dreadingslam regular venue Rising Sun Arts whatsonreading.com/themes/indepen… help support the venue by coming to watching or taking part in the slam

We’ll be there on Sunday 2nd Feb

Next Slam is Sunday March 2nd 19:30 @Risingsunarts We are Using Twitter a lot less now, better to follow our account Dreadingslam.bsky.social

Dreadingslam break new ground with our #spokenword #openmic in the Angel Bar, #Caversham more detals on our #FaceBook Page facebook.com/groups/1583621…