YER BARD: BAD BETTY FUNDRAISER

BAD BETTY is an award-winning independent publisher of new poetry, and curator of live literature events taking place across the UK, renowned for publishing emerging writers.

While they have benefitted from being funded by ACE Project Grants since 2018, in December their recent application (for our 2025 Artistic Programme) was turned down. They've reapplied, but there's a 12-week wait time for a decision, followed by another month or so before the money comes in.
SO they need your, our, YER BARD and the wider poetry community's help to get through the next two or three months, while they either wait for good news, or find a way to pivot if they're turned down again. Your generosity will help them to print books, pay the Bad Betty team, pay author royalties, and cover overheads.
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THIS MONTH on WEDNESDAY MARCH 19TH we are putting on a special BAD BETTY LINE UP of fantastic poets who have been published and supported by the publisher, and asking for donations to help keep Bad Betty alive.
LINE UP:
Kandace Siobhan Walker

Kareem Parkins Brown
Shanay Neusum-James
Troy Cabida
& of course, an OPEN MIC.
This is an event about uplifting new voices in poetry, and the resilience of the writing community coming together to fund and support itself.

Host or Publisher YER BARD POETRY