How to submit your events to the Kapow! Poetry Calendar
So, you’ve got this Poetry Calendar and a mailing list of hundreds of lyrically-minded souls, eh? I see you’ve made some changes to your mailouts. What’s the what, then?
- The Poetry Calendar is still the simple Google Calendar thing of beauty it always was (only bigger, owing to this catching on somewhat!). Nothing’s changed there - all you have to do to access it is go to the URL and have a look around.
- Events on the Calendar meet certain criteria - they need to be at least 50% spoken word (either poetry or storytelling, but not purely stand-up comedy, music or drama, unless they also involve serious chunks of poetry), and they need to be within about 60-odd miles of the centre of either Milton Keynes, Cambridge, or London Sunday-Thursday; further afield on weekends or for festivals. The event can be any type of installation, featured act performance, an open mic event, a course, or a workshop of some ilk (or a combination of these). We’re not looking to expand this geographical catchment until we have more resources at our disposal - sorry!
- Huzzah! Your event meets these criteria! How do you let us know? Make sure you know the date, time, location (including postcode, please, if possible - London folk, please mention that it’s in London!), cost of entry, and any limitations on performance if it’s open mic/ slam. Then either:
- The simplest thing is, if you have a Facebook event set up for the event, invite me (Fay Roberts) to the event. Better yet, scroll down to the bottom of the page the event is on, click the "export" link, save the file, and send it to us here at Kapow! Towers. This is what I would do anyway in order to upload it to the Calendar and it saves us both some Facebook-related awkwardness.
- Send us the text (note the word text - it means "don’t just send us a scanned or otherwise image-only version of the flyer because we’re not going to type it out for you unless, frankly, we’re on the bill) of the details. Better yet, send it in an Excel/ csv format with the relevant columns. Yes, I’m a geek. What?
- Oh, and do try to give us more than a couple of days’ notice - it more certainly guarantees you getting listed. :)
If you’ve got any further questions, just let us know!
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