Louder Than a Bomb is an annual youth poetry festival and competition featuring schools from all over Nebraska and the Great Plains. This program has impacted thousands of students, and provided a host of paid work opportunities for accomplished area poets, helping Nebraska retain some of its best artistic talent. We are in over 30 schools across Nebraska reaching hundreds of youth artists every day. This year marks the 10 year anniversary of LTaB!

PRELIMINARY BOUTS will be held at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. each day of the festival.

The festival will take place between March and April in a series of poetry bouts both in-person and virtual.

• Due to COVID-19 in order to keep everyone safe and hear your poems live, we’re limiting capacity and live-streaming our LTAB preliminary bouts! What does that mean: All Preliminary bouts will be restricted to competing teams and coaches only. Luckily the public can catch each bout through our livestream and after on our YouTube page.

  Tune into the Nebraska Writers Collective YouTube channel or Facebook page for live streaming.