Projects
StAnza is best known for one week in March, but the festival is not the whole of what we do.
All year round
Poetry beyond the festival
Our projects run through the rest of the year: mentoring emerging poets, developing the next generation of literary professionals, commissioning translation, and finding new ways for people across Fife and Scotland to read, write and hear poetry.
Some run for a single season, others across several years and festival cycles.
Under way now
Current projects
Common Verse
A two-day summit exploring the role of poetry in Scotland's cultural life.
Fifebuilt
A mentoring programme supporting a small group of emerging Fife-based poets to develop their practice.
Dictionary of War
A partnership with TRANSLATORIUM, translating a Ukrainian collection of texts about war into languages of Scotland.
Future Programmers Lab
Sharing nearly 30 years of festival-making with emerging literature programmers and producers.
Well Versed
A project encouraging more reading of poetry and the setting up of poetry book groups.
Finished
Past projects
These projects have finished. We've kept them here as part of StAnza's history.
Past projectPoets in Residence
Six emerging poets and a visual artist, supported across three festival cycles.
Past projectPoetry Map
Scotland drawn in poems. No longer taking new poems, but still there to explore.
Past projectSummer Poetry Challenge
Free poetry prompts for young people aged 8 and over, with OnFife libraries.
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