Saturday September 28 : Bert Flitcroft workshop
Bert Flitcroft, who judged the annual poetry competition of City Voices Creative Writers, will be running a follow-up workshop.
Saturday September 28th, 11am-12.30pm at Hanley Library, Stoke-on-Trent.
Tuesday October 1 : ‘PASTA’
‘PASTA’ open mic night MCd by Emma Purshouse, Dave Pitt and Steve Pottinger. Tuesday October 1st, 7 pm. All welcome.
In the first half people read creative writing written on a theme. This month it’s ‘Wardrobe Issues’. In the second half anything goes. Come along and share your work. 5 minute slots.
Free event. Arena Theatre, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SE. pandemonialists.co.uk
Thursday October 3 : ‘Poetry postcards launch’
‘Poetry postcards launch’ for Poetry on Loan, 7.30-8.30 pm. Jeff Phelps and Emma Purshouse will be reading with Brenda Read-Brown and Sarah Leavesley at Hereford Central Library, Broad Street, Hereford HR4 9AU.
Free event. Doors open 7 pm.
Thursday October 3 :Jeff Phelps Poetry on Loan
Jeff Phelps will be reading at a Poetry on Loan ‘poetry postcards’ event at Hereford Library, Broad Street, Hereford HR4 9AU
Thursday October 3rd at 7.30pm.
Free event.
Sunday October 6 : ‘Read On: After Summer and Other Stories’
‘Read On: After Summer and Other Stories’ (an anthology of new writing for young people commissioned by teenagers). Emma Purshouse and other commissioned UK writers will be talking about their approach to writing to an unusual brief, and reading short excerpts from their stories.
A Birmingham Literature Festival event. Sunday October 6th, 2-3pm, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, Birmingham, B4 7XR.
Tickets £3 birminghamliteraturefestival.org
Tuesday October 8 : ‘City Voices’
‘City Voices’ with Steve Corton, Pauline Llewellyn, David Bingham & the launch of Ripening Cherries, an anthology of ‘Japanese’ poetry, 7.30-9pm, at The Light House, Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1HT.
Tickets £3 on the door.
Tuesday October 8 : ‘pARTy Lines’
‘pARTy Lines’, Ros Woolner will be taking part in a literary cabaret during the Birmingham Literature Festival at The Old Joint Stock, 4 Temple Row, Birmingham B2 5NY.
Tuesday October 8th, 8-9.30pm.
Tickets £5. birminghamliteraturefestival.org
Wednesday October 9 : ‘Poetry Pass the Parcel’
‘Poetry Pass the Parcel’. Emma Purshouse will be appearing at this Poetry on Loan event with Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists. Emma Purshouse, Steve Pottinger, and Dave Pitt will take a given theme from the audience and run with it. Expect fun and funny, tenuous links, and occasional moments of thoughtfulness and poignancy.
Wednesday October 9th, 7 pm (refreshments from 6.45 pm). Stourbridge Library, Crown Centre, Stourbridge DY8 1YE.
Tickets £3 (phone 01384 812949 to reserve a ticket, then pay on the day).
