newsflash

call for texts!
literature contest
organised by vienna poetry school and the project "meaoiswiamia" (more than we alone), austria as guest of honour, at the leipzig book fair 2023
deadline: 15 february 2023 (win appealing prizes!)

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.

loss of reality – from "fever dreams", "orgasmic writing" to "manipulation training": classes with raphaela edelbauer, christine gaigg and patrick wagner
november 2022

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

exhibition on the occasion of 30 years vienna poetry school
designed by tina bara (berlin/leipzig), photographer, video artist and film maker
until 15 december 2022 at sfd, 1070 vienna
12 october 2022, 7 p.m.: performance & talk in the exhibition with anne waldman and bernhard widder (event in english)

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 ostermayer
13 october 2022, 8 p.m., free admission
venue: rote bar / volkstheater, arthur-schnitzler-platz 1, 1070 vienna

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

13 european texts are entering the final round for this year's eacwp flash fiction contest. public voting ends 30 june 2022!

wanted: short literary texts on the topic of animals
sfd& tiere (animals)
magazine of the vienna poetry school #04
call closes: 6 june 2022

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

on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the vienna poetry school: panel debate with bodo hell, orhan kipcak, teresa präauer, ferdinand schmatz
moderation: fritz ostermayer
19 april 2022, 7 p.m.; free admission
venue: alte schmiede, schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 vienna

april/may 2022
four classes – between animal becoming and human erosion – with martin fritz, kalle laar, julya rabinowich, nell zink.

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.

online class with peter rosei
short prose, poetry or (micro) drama (max. 1,000 characters)
19 january until (max.) 23 february 2022
participation free of charge, just register, join anytime

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 2021
info & registration >> http://sfd.at/laar (join anytime)
wanted: poetry, spoken word, song lyrics or other short poetic texts! (in german or english)

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!

a ghost festival about the absent present in and around us
films | lectures | readings | performances | music
a movie night on 28 october plus two festival evenings on 29 and 30 october 2021

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.

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)

sandra henriques from barreiro (portugal) with her text "the caretaker" ("a encarregada"). 13 texts in 13 different languages were competing in the final round.