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  Bard Con Virtual
Sponsored by Local Gems Press and Bards National 

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Bard Con Virtual
An Online Poetry Convention

Welcome to the page for Bard Con Virtual, an online poetry convention and resource for poets during this time of crisis. More content will be added as time goes on. There will be an official "launch period" that will last from 5-7 days where lots of new content will be made available. Dates will be announced ASAP. But we have some content available now. 

Virtual Readings

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We will be hosting a series of virtual readings. In additional the regular virtual readings we will be having a line up of reading from various Local Gems anthologies including:

Poets to Come
Bards Annual
Bards Against Hunger
NoVA Bards
National Beat Poetry Anthologies
​Bards Regional Anthologies

How To Participate:

Send in recordings of you reciting your poems in MP3 format to bardsvirtual@gmail.com
3 minutes or less per recording. 

Workshops, Panels, Seminars

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The publishers of Local Gems and other poetic community leaders will be providing a series of virtual workshops, seminars and prompts ideas to keep the creativity flowing and the pen moving! 

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Free Virtual Seminar From Local Gems Press

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