Although our starting point here at The Letters Page is always the handwritten letter-in-the-mail, we do also enjoy correspondence in any form. And through such correspondence (the electronic mail, the ‘tweet’, the web log posting) we have built links with more and more fellow lovers of the letter and of the written word. All of which is by way of lengthy preamble to telling you about this event, hosted by one Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam of Texas, who was good enough to recently feature The Letters Page on her own site.

Arts & Words, which takes place at Art on the Boulevard in Texas on the 27th of September, is an appreciation and collaboration of spoken word and visual art with a new twist.

Writers and artists can submit work from anywhere and you do not have to be able to attend in order to submit, although anyone can attend and all pieces will be displayed at Art on the Boulevard for a week. The interesting point is how the event brings the artists and writers together… a dozen spoken word pieces and a dozen visual arts pieces are selected and then each have to choose one piece from the opposite genre to inspire a response, a new work directly derived from the combinations of art.

This year will be the third of its kind and if it seems like a project you’d like to get involved in Arts & Words are currently accepting submissions for this year’s event. So whether you are a poet, fiction, non-fiction or visual artist you can apply as long as you’re up for the challenge! It’s come a long way from when it began in 2012 as a Kickstarter project, the interested in gained proved that this is a project worth keeping an eye on.

Full details about the event can be found here:

- Elexa Rose, Publicity Manager