Live Literature – Sabotage

Saboteur Awards: Round 2 of Voting Now Open

May 31, 2023June 1, 2023 Heddwen awards, Birmingham, digbeth, evening, events, Fiction, live events, performance poetry, poetry, Saboteur Awards, Spoken Word

Thank you to everyone who submitted their nominations. We have counted and the shortlist has been revealed. Voting closes on

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Saboteur Award 2023: Nominations now open!

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 Heddwen all of the above, announcement, anthology, award ceremony, awards, Birmingham, blogzines, chapbook, children's poetry, Collaboration, collection, conversation, Debate, Festival, literary criticism, literature, literature event, live events, Live Literature, nomination, performance poetry, poetry, sabotage, sabotage reviews, saboteur, Saboteur Awards, Spoken Word

The Saboteur Awards are back for another year, and we couldn’t be more excited to announce that nominations for 2023

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Saboteur Awards Festival 2022: Votes are OPEN and ticket sales are LIVE!

March 7, 2022April 24, 2023 Heddwen festival events, festival tickets, sabotage festival, Saboteur Awards, saboteur awards festival, saboteur awards voting, saboteur festival, saboteur festival 2022, saboteur voting

Aaaaaand we’re off! We’re delighted to announce that from today (March 7), votes are officially open for the Saboteur Awards

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Saboteur Awards Festival 2022: The line-up!

March 2, 2022March 7, 2022 Heddwen festival events, indie authors, Indie Literature, indie publishers, sabotage reviews, Saboteur Awards, saboteur awards 2022, saboteur awards festival, saboteur festival, saboteur festival 2022

Now we’re nearing the first round of votes for the Saboteur Awards 2022, it seems only right that we share

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Saboteur Spotlight: Best Literary Festival 2021, StAnza Poetry Festival

June 6, 2021May 21, 2021 Heddwen Festival, poetry, poetry festival, saboteur, Saboteur Awards, saboteur awards festival, saboteur spotlight, saboteur winners, saboteur winners 2021, stanza poetry festival

Congratulations on your recent win at the Saboteur Awards Festival 2021! How did you feel when you found out that

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Saboteur Awards 2021: When are the winners announced?

May 5, 2021May 15, 2021 Heddwen sabotage reviews, saboteur announcement, Saboteur Awards, saboteur awards 2021, saboteur awards festival, saboteur awards shortlist, saboteur spotlight, saboteur voting, saboteur winners

The whole point of the Saboteur Awards Festival this year, to me, was to put a spotlight on artists and organisations who had been impacted by the pandemic. That’s why our festival line-up is packed with amazing performers and organisations, lending their time, their words and their talent to digital audiences.

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Spoken Word Playlist #4: ‘Mountain’ by Jet Sweeney

August 28, 2020August 31, 2020 Heddwen performance art, Performance Poet, performance poetry, poetry, Spoken Word

– Written by Hannah Ledlie – I suspect Jet Sweeney’s ‘Mountain’ might be a marmite poem. To test this theory

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Spoken Word Playlist #3: How are poets adapting to social distancing?

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Heddwen lockdown poetry, Performance, performance poetry, poetry, poetry events, Spoken Word

Anyone seeking to facilitate poetry in the digital world of lockdown must start from a place of comparison and introspection. What are the essential elements of a ‘normal’ poetry event?

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LIVEwire at the Verve Poetry Festival (February 22, 2020)

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Heddwen Festival, Live Literature, live poetry, poetry, Spoken Word, Verve Poetry Festival

Late last year, UK spoken word record label Nymphs & Thugs announced their first national tour. Their goal was to bring ‘LIVEwire’ to eight different venues across the country.

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Utopia, Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 6th November

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Heddwen interactive, interactive literature, Performance, performance art

Utopia – a single-hander written and performed by multi-disciplinary artist and creative producer Amahra Spence – blurred the barriers between life and art.