VERSeFest and Capital Slam, with the support of the Mercury Lounge, will be hosting a very special opportunity for poets in and around the Ottawa area. On the afternoon of March 4th, Ursula Rucker will be conducting a very exclusive poetry workshop at the Mercury Lounge.

This is a really big deal. We are incredibly thrilled to be able to bring this to a select group of participants.

The workshop is limited to 20 spots only, so registration is at a premium. The workshop costs $50 and includes a ticket to the Ursula Rucker show the night before at the Alumni Auditorium.

How to register:

Tickets for the festival go on sale on Feb. 1st, but we will be doing something special for the Ursula Rucker Workshop, due to the incredibly limited number of spots available.

To reserve a spot in the workshop you need to send an e-mail to versefest@live.ca after Feb. 1st at 10 am. Any requests that arrive BEFORE that time will not be counted. The first 20 people whose e-mails arrive AFTER 10am on the 1st will have spots reserved for them. A waiting list will also be created. Once you have been notified that a spot is available to you, you will have 7 days to get payment to VERSeFest, either through Paypal or directly to one of the VERSeFest officials. (Rusty Priske, for example… contact versefest@live.ca to coordinate.) If payment isn’t received within 7 days we will give the spot to the next person on the waiting list.

Clear?

We expect these spots to fill up VERY fast, so don’t sleep on this!