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the improvement of all of austria
call for texts!literature contestorganised by vienna poetry school and the project "meaoiswiamia" (more than we alone), austria as guest of honour, at the leipzig book fair 2023deadline: 15 february 2023 (win appealing prizes!)
track 5' radio play contest 2023
by radio ö1 and the vienna poetry school"how should i put this?"submission deadline: 15 january 2023. presentation of the top ten radio plays on 13 february at alte schmiede vienna. presentation of the winners on 24 february, broadcast on 4 march 2023 during ö1 hörspiel-magazin.
autumn academy 22 "reality will eat itself"
loss of reality – from "fever dreams", "orgasmic writing" to "manipulation training": classes with raphaela edelbauer, christine gaigg and patrick wagnernovember 2022
winners of the onb web residency
are sînziana păltineanu with her work "thunder and lightning. records of a passing snowstorm on the first wednesday of the new year" and ida westh-hansen with "boon scrolling". both were successful with two very different digital artworks.önb in association with sfd
gründungsfieber (founding fever)
exhibition on the occasion of 30 years vienna poetry schooldesigned by tina bara (berlin/leipzig), photographer, video artist and film makeruntil 15 december 2022 at sfd, 1070 vienna12 october 2022, 7 p.m.: performance & talk in the exhibition with anne waldman and bernhard widder (event in english)
the beat goes on
celebration for the 30th anniversary! poets/bands on stage: dental princes, erstes wiener heimorgelorchester, smashed to pieces & the very pleasure, as well as lydia haider (aut) & special guest anne waldman (usa); presented by fritz ostermayer13 october 2022, 8 p.m., free admissionvenue: rote bar / volkstheater, arthur-schnitzler-platz 1, 1070 vienna
30 years sfd
the vienna poetry school was founded an unbelievable 30 years ago! on this occasion: a panel debate (19 april), an exhibition & a cinema screening (25 may), a celebration (13 october), a book
eacwp flash fiction contest 2021 – public vote!
13 european texts are entering the final round for this year's eacwp flash fiction contest. public voting ends 30 june 2022!
call for text submissions 2022
wanted: short literary texts on the topic of animalssfd& tiere (animals)magazine of the vienna poetry school #04call closes: 6 june 2022
sounds & lecture
presentation: kalle laar (ger/aut) & the poets of his sound poetry class "making music with animals" and guest lecture by maartje smits (ned) on transmedia artistic research: "how i started a forest im my bathroom" (ArtEZ creative writing, arnheim)thurs., 5 may 2022, 7 p.m.; free admission venue: vienna poetry school, mariahilfer strasse 88a/stiege III/7, 1070 vienna
teach writing
on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the vienna poetry school: panel debate with bodo hell, orhan kipcak, teresa präauer, ferdinand schmatzmoderation: fritz ostermayer19 april 2022, 7 p.m.; free admissionvenue: alte schmiede, schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 vienna
vienna poetry school spring academy 22 "animals"
april/may 2022four classes – between animal becoming and human erosion – with martin fritz, kalle laar, julya rabinowich, nell zink.
track 5' short radio play contest 2022
organised by radio ö1 and the vienna poetry school"let's try it out"deadline: 7 january 2022. presentation of the top 10 radio plays on 15 feb. at alte schmiede, vienna. the winners are presented on 25 feb., broadcast on 5 march 2022 on ö1.
looking
online class with peter roseishort prose, poetry or (micro) drama (max. 1,000 characters)19 january until (max.) 23 february 2022participation free of charge, just register, join anytime
START! vinyl poetics
an online picture-word ping-pong with radio play writer, musician, dj and vinyl archivist kalle aldis laar (the temporary sound museum)free participation: 25 november until 9 december 2021info & registration >> http://sfd.at/laar (join anytime)wanted: poetry, spoken word, song lyrics or other short poetic texts! (in german or english)
"without net" texts
sfd& ohne netz (without net)the jury has chosen 35 texts in german and english to be published in the third edition of the vienna poetry school magazine sfd&.thank you for participating in the call for text submissions & the numerous contributions!
hauntings
a ghost festival about the absent present in and around usfilms | lectures | readings | performances | musica movie night on 28 october plus two festival evenings on 29 and 30 october 2021
vienna poetry school at the international poetry festival in medellín (col)
31st festival internacional de poesía de medellín & 25 years escuela internacional de poesía de medellín (col), 1 until 29 august 2021. the poetry school in medellín, founded in 1996 together with ide hintze and the vienna poetry school (sfd), celebrates its 25th anniversary. we are delighted that sfd takes part in the festival with a talk and workshops.
aleph écriture guest at vienna poetry school
a summer writing class from 16 until 20 august 2021 at the vienna poetry school, organised by aleph écriture (paris); in association with vienna poetry school & eacwp (european association of creative writing programmes)
4th eacwp flash fiction contest - the winner is...
sandra henriques from barreiro (portugal) with her text "the caretaker" ("a encarregada"). 13 texts in 13 different languages were competing in the final round.