Since 2016 poets from far and wide have submitted their best, unpublished poems into Winchester Poetry Prize competition to be in with a chance of winning the prestigious top prizes and publication in a printed anthology. The first prize is £1000, second prize is £500 and third prize is...
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Review: Frank Turner, O2 Southampton Guildhall
By Graham Hiley. Back in 1996 a young Frank Turner came to the Southampton Guildhall to watch a Battle of the Bands contest. There and then he vowed he would one day be standing on that stage taking part in the competition. Although he never actually got to...
Teenage Waitress – a Rock n Roll Powerpoint on Songs, comes to the Railway, Winchester
Southampton’s Daniel J Ash, who writes and records solo music under the project name Teenage Waitressis putting on a special gig with a twist on in Winchester on April 26. He explains: “As a songwriter of quite a few years, and a lecturer in songwriting at the University of...
Art review: Queering connections: Glitchy Kinship, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art
By Mabel Wellman. The fifth Queering Connections art exhibit launched this week at The Winchester Gallery at Winchester School of Art (30/1/25). This exhibition by sociologist Dr Lizzie Reed of sociology and artist Milou Stella, called Glitchy Kinship, explores relationships and states of change between people, nature, stories, and...
Review: Dial M For Mayhem, Middle Ground Theatre Company at The Theatre Royal, Winchester
By Dan O’Farrell. A play-within-a-play is always good value, especially if it goes disastrously wrong. Shakespeare knew this well: he saved the whole last act of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for the workmen’s hilariously inept production of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’. In more recent times people have queued in...
Exhibition – Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship
New exhibition, Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship, comes to Winchester later this month. This is the fifth iteration of the collaborative exhibition project ‘Queering Connections’. Based on an ongoing collaboration between sociologist Lizzie Reed and visual artist Milou Stella, the exhibition brings Stella’s recent work into conversation with selected Artists’...
Opinion: Winchester and Southampton – which is the king of Christmas markets this year?
By Mabel Wellman. It’s that time of year again! It’s getting darker earlier, and the cold weather is starting to set in for the next few months. And to help us all get through it, our cities and towns are adorned with bright and warming lights and decorations. Last...
Blue Apple Singers to perform at Winchester Cathedral Christmas Market
Blue Apple Theatre’s Singers will be spreading festive cheer with a performance of seasonal songs at the Winchester Cathedral Christmas Market on Monday 2 December at 5pm. The Blue Apple Singers are known for their heartfelt performances. The performance promises to add to the magic of the market, showcasing...
Winchester Poetry Day takes place on Saturday
Image by Jade Hylton Winchester once again plays host to a celebration of poetry, when Winchester Poetry Day takes place on Saturday 5th October. This special day of poetry readings, performances, workshops and drop-in activities welcomes the well-versed and the poetry-curious in equal measure. Winchester Poetry Day concludes with...
New ‘Kathryn Bevis Prize’ to celebrate the best poem from Hampshire entered into Winchester Poetry Prize 2024
In Winchester Poetry Prize’s ninth year, the ‘Kathryn Bevis Prize’ has been introduced to celebrate the best poem entered by a writer based in Hampshire. It will be judged by this year’s competition judge, Clare Shaw. The ‘Kathryn Bevis Prize’ winner will receive £150, plus three one-day poetry workshops...