Glastonbury Festival seek spoken word acts

Glastonbury Festival is seeking poets, lyricists, spoken word artists, troubadours, story tellers, stand-up poets and slam champs.

The Poetry&Words area of the Festival are looking for talented poetry types who could get an opportunity to perform their work on Glastonbury Festival's poetry stage.

The Festivals is looking for applications from experienced writers and performers who can leave the Glastonbury audience speechless (in a good way!).

Those who think they would fit the bill are asked to please e-mail poetryandwords@hotmail.co.uk with their poetry CV and 1-3 video and/or audio files of them performing their work. Organisers are happy to receive either attachments (of a manageable size!) or web links. They can even provide a snail mail address for those old school applying poets.

Applications will close at midnight on Sunday 10th March 2013, and applications received (by post or e-mail) after this date will not be accepted.

Each year Poetry& Words receive a high volume of applications and are therefore unable to reply to individual e-mails. Successful artists should hear back from them within two months of the deadline.

Glastonbury Festival takes place from Wednesday 26th June until Monday 1st July 2013 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset and, as ever, includes a free programme. Once again, the Festival will be raising funds for Oxfam, Wateraid, Greenpeace and a host of local charities and causes (in 2011, more than £2m was raised).

A further release of a limited number of cancelled tickets will happen on Sunday 21st April 2013, for those who have registered beforehand so that they are eligible to buy a ticket.

The number of tickets available will be quite limited, because these will be returns, not a second batch. The exact number of tickets in the resale will not be known until after the ticket balance payment window has closed on Monday 8th April. Tickets are usually limited to four per transaction.

UK ticket balances of £155 per ticket, will be payable in the first week of April 2013 following the Easter Weekend, from 9am Tuesday 2nd April until 23:59 Monday 8th April, when there will also be options to book everything else needed (tipis, campervan tickets, parking, cancellation protection). International ticket balance payments will be taken from 9am (GMT) Monday 25th February until 23:59 (GMT) Sunday 3rd March 2013. After this date any tickets not paid for in full will be offered to those who have registered.

Anyone who decides not to pay their balance in 2013 will be refunded their deposit, minus a £10 administration fee.

Anyone aged 13 or over (when the Festival starts) who wishes to buy a ticket must be registered.

Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket in the resale, but if you don't register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2013. Online registration for 2013 can be carried out by clicking here.

Malian singer Rokia Traore is the only act confirmed so far, and the full line-up won't be revealed until mid-April, although the first names are expected be announced sometime before that. As usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2013 rumours, updated as we receive information. Help us to help you - if you hear of a band that's playing, please let us know.

Expect something like 2,000 performances at 50 or so venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

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