BRAG Magazine

BRAG Poetry Editor, Will Barnard, wins prestigious Eric Gregory Award. We couldn’t be prouder of him.

Manchester canners interested in dark comedy should book to watch this play by can appreciation advocate @nicholasroyle linktr.ee/thunkpresents?…

Ray Bremser was considered a master poet by his contemporaries. ‘The Dying of Children’ was his first published poem, something he only learnt about 2 months prior to his death. Learn more in one of our most popular articles: bragwriters.com/post/the-tragi…

Book your 3-minute open mic slot from noon today via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk.

The 30% off sale ends midnight this Sunday. Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers will use the funds to print their next TWO publications. Get yours and support a small, independent press doing great work 👇🏼 …fworkerswhilstbuildingskyscrapers.com

We are now accepting submissions for Poetry Ireland Review Issue 147, guest edited by Theo Dorgan. The theme: LOVE 💟 Visit the link in bio to submit 🔗 Poetry Ireland acknowledges the support of @artscouncil_ie and and the National Lottery through the @ArtsCouncilNI

Two new poems on Anthropocene for Yorkshire Day, and conveniently Lammas. Overshoot, a winter poem for Rotherham. Columbine, a summer poem for Bradford. anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems-b…

Today on Anthropocene new poetry by Simon Armitage 🍎🍒♠️🍐 anthropocenepoetry.org/post/folk-song…

The Elmet Trust present A Ted Hughes Birthday Poetry Reading The Dusty Miller, Mytholmroyd Four poets gather to celebrate the birthday of Ted Hughes, who was born in Mytholmroyd in 1930. All four have written about the Yorkshire landscape and the people who dwell within it.

Like humans, there are many ways a sonnet can be. This fundraiser workshop led by myself will look modern and contemporary experiments in the ‘little song’ by a diverse range of poets including Bernadette Mayer, Diane Seuss and Nat Raha. eventbrite.co.uk/e/little-songs…

E.E. Cummings: The Shape and Style of an American Giant bragwriters.com/post/e-e-cummi…

My short story, Every Ballymena Man’s Dream is playing on @BBCRadio4Extra over the next couple of days. Have a listen here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@BrandonThomasB - by the way of an end of life Brandon is EiC of BRAG Writers Literary Magazine, a poet from the North of England, and released his debut Peat and Other Soils with death of workers whilst building skyscrapers in 2024. Copies of scant available from our bio link

❛ The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Author Kurt Vonnegut, who died #OTD in 2007.

World Poetry Day will be a brilliant day of events in Manchester with a Peter Gizzi workshop at Castlefield Viaduct 2-4pm and 'a tenuous line, a lot of feelings' at SEESAW in the evening with readings! manchestercityofliterature.com/event/a-tenuou…

A love poem by Jack Underwood 🥚