LOUD POETS:
SLAM SERIES 24/25
The Loud Poets Slam Series is back for its third year and it’s going to be bigger than ever!
Loud Poets are partnering with festivals and venues across the UK to find and celebrate the best in spoken word. We’re partnering with some incredible organisations including Push The Boat Out, VERVE Poetry Festival, StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, Paisley Book Festival, UP YER AIRTS, Aberdeen Performing Arts, and Bradford Literature Festival. Stay tuned for details on the nine heats taking place through spring/summer 2025 by signing up to our newsletter.
You can grab TICKETS for your closest Heat here:
Edinburgh - 23rd November - Push The Boat Out
Glasgow - 11th January - Drygate
Birmingham - 13th February - VERVE Poetry Festival
St Andrews - March
Paisley - April
Dumfries - May
Aberdeen - June
TBC - June
Bradford - July
Inverness - July
The winner of each heat will win a £200 cash prize and qualify for our Grand Slam Final in August which has a £3,000 cash prize!
This entire Slam Series will be available to watch for free through our YouTube channel so you can follow along no matter where you are.
This slam series was made possible from National Lottery funding through Creative Scotland so a massive thank you to them.
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LOUD POETS:
SLAM SERIES 2024
From March-August 2024 we ran our second annual Loud Poets Slam Series!
We partnered with festivals and venues across the country to find and celebrate the best in Scottish spoken word. We held six regional slam heats, in St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Paisley, Dumfries, Aberdeen, and Inverness. T
he winner of each heat received a £200 cash prize and, alongside the runner-up, qualifed for our Grand Slam Final in August with the Edinburgh International Book Festival with a £3,000 cash prize!
Thank you to all of our partners who made this Slam Series possible: StAnza, Paisley Book Festival, the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival, Aberdeen Performing Arts, the Bike Shed and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
This entire Slam Series is available to watch for free through our YouTube channel. Click on the icons below to watch the Regional Heats, and watch the Grand Slam Final via the vide embedded below.
LOUD POETS:
SLAM SERIES 2023
Our 2023 Slam Series was a smashing success! From February through July 2023 we held six poetry slam heats across Scotland, in Greenock, Dumfries, Dundee, Inverness, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh. The winner of each heat won £200 and, alongside the runner-up, qualified for our 2023 Grand Slam Final in August with the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The competition was stiff, but in the end RJ Hunter took home the £3,000 cash prize!
Our 2023 Slam Series was awarded Best Regular Spoken Word Event in the UK at the Saboteur Awards. Our 2023 Grand Slam Final with the Edinburgh International Book Festival won the Creative Edinburgh Collaboration Award. We’re very proud that the poem that won the inaugural 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Performed was performed at our Slam Series: Bohdan Piasecki earned the award for his stellar performance of “Almost Certainly” with our guitarist Jack Hinks.
‘[I Am Loud] are (to some extent) the last proper Scottish spoken-word event organisers, show-runners and platformers standing, and it is a joy to see their years of hard and often overlooked and unrewarded toil finally pay off with slam poetry’s accession to the biggest of Edinburgh International Book Festival stages, in front of a sold-out, 300-strong crowd who were in rapturous voice throughout.’ - Glasgow Review of Books on the 2023 Grand Slam Final
Click below for videos of each full regional heat, and watch the full Grand Slam Final here.
