AUGUST
WORD CLUB
Join
us this month for a Half Moon special, featuring headline slots from WORD CLUB
regular Andy Armitage and Beehive's very own Barbara Howerska, reading from
their debut Half Moon pamphlets. We also have WORD CLUB lucky draw winner, the
very classy Adrian Salmon, giving us 10 minutes of his varied, erudite poetry.
with a bit of Grandma's custard thrown in for good measure (you might have to
read that one now, Adrian). The usual open mic slots will be available and
we'll be starting at 7.30 pm. See thee there!
7-30
Start at Tehe Chemic Tavern, 9 Johnson St, Leeds
EAST
MEETS WEST
9
SEPTEMBER 13:00 -- 15:00
Join
us for a showcase of four very different writers from three very different
cities: Russ Litten and Joe Hakim from Hull, Michael Yates from Wakefield and
Mark Connors from Leeds. This unique event will include readings from the
quartet's recent crticially acclaimed works and an anything goes (poetry, stand
up, prose etc) open mic.
Russ Litten is the author of three novels (Scream If You Want To Go Faster, Swear Down and Kingdom) His first short story collection We Know What We Are was published by Obliterati Press in the May of this year. As one half of the electornic story telling dup Cobby & Litten he has contributed words to three albums, My People Come From The Sea, Boothferry and Pound Shop Communism. Russ currently works as a writer in residence at a prison in the north of England.
Joe Hakim lives and works in Hull. He’s performed at venues and festivals including Latitude, Big Chill, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and BBC Contains Strong Language. The album ‘The Science of Discontent’, a collaboration with musician Ashley Reaks, is available now. https://ashleyreaks.bandcamp.com/
Michael Yates was Environment Reporter and later Film Critic at the Sheffield Star. He founded the Black Horse Poets group in Wakefield, and has published two volumes of verse. He has had 12 plays performed by various companies in Yorkshire and Lancashire. His latest work is 20 Stories High, a paperback collection of short stories published by Leeds-based Armley Press.
Mark Connors is a poet and novelist from Horsforth, Leeds. His debut poetry pamphlet Life is a Long is a Long Song was published by OWF Press in 2015. His first full length poetry collection, Nothing is meant to be Broken was published by Stairwell Books in 2017. Mark won the Ilkley Literature Festival Open Mic competition in both 2014 and 2015 and has received a number of prizes and commendations for his short fiction. His debut novel Stickleback was published by Armley Press in 2016 and was longlisted for The Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize.’ His second novel, Tom Tit and the Maniacs was published in 2018 by Armley Press. He runs spoken word nights for WORD CLUB in Leeds and comperes and performs regularly at Literature Festivals. For more info visit www.markconnors.co.uk
Just turn up and get your name down for the open mic on arrival!
Russ Litten is the author of three novels (Scream If You Want To Go Faster, Swear Down and Kingdom) His first short story collection We Know What We Are was published by Obliterati Press in the May of this year. As one half of the electornic story telling dup Cobby & Litten he has contributed words to three albums, My People Come From The Sea, Boothferry and Pound Shop Communism. Russ currently works as a writer in residence at a prison in the north of England.
Joe Hakim lives and works in Hull. He’s performed at venues and festivals including Latitude, Big Chill, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and BBC Contains Strong Language. The album ‘The Science of Discontent’, a collaboration with musician Ashley Reaks, is available now. https://ashleyreaks.bandcamp.com/
Michael Yates was Environment Reporter and later Film Critic at the Sheffield Star. He founded the Black Horse Poets group in Wakefield, and has published two volumes of verse. He has had 12 plays performed by various companies in Yorkshire and Lancashire. His latest work is 20 Stories High, a paperback collection of short stories published by Leeds-based Armley Press.
Mark Connors is a poet and novelist from Horsforth, Leeds. His debut poetry pamphlet Life is a Long is a Long Song was published by OWF Press in 2015. His first full length poetry collection, Nothing is meant to be Broken was published by Stairwell Books in 2017. Mark won the Ilkley Literature Festival Open Mic competition in both 2014 and 2015 and has received a number of prizes and commendations for his short fiction. His debut novel Stickleback was published by Armley Press in 2016 and was longlisted for The Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize.’ His second novel, Tom Tit and the Maniacs was published in 2018 by Armley Press. He runs spoken word nights for WORD CLUB in Leeds and comperes and performs regularly at Literature Festivals. For more info visit www.markconnors.co.uk
Just turn up and get your name down for the open mic on arrival!
Hyde Park Book Club
Headingley Lane
Leeds
LS6 1BL
SHAKEN IN SHEEP
TOWN
13 SEPTEMBER 7-30 --
10-30
BOJANGLES BAR
NEWMARKET ST
SKIPTON
After
a long hot summer, your favourite Dales poetry night is back, going into our
third year of fleecy frolics!
Two fantastic headliners will kick the season off with some brilliant poetry as well as open mic slots for excellent local talent.
Come along to Bojangles to see Nick Allen and Amy Kinsman do their stuff and maybe get up and give it a go too.
Two fantastic headliners will kick the season off with some brilliant poetry as well as open mic slots for excellent local talent.
Come along to Bojangles to see Nick Allen and Amy Kinsman do their stuff and maybe get up and give it a go too.
Some of you might be
interested in this 10 week poetry course at Keighley library that Gill is
facilitating.
BEGINNING SEPT 20TH
17-30 -- 19-30
A ten
week poetry course offering prompts for your own writing, weekly feedback and
advice for publishing and editing.
£75 full fee, £40 seniors free places for those in receipt of certain benefits - please enquire dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk.
These workshops are about you and your writing. Whatever your writing experience, sometimes it’s good to get a prompt, a push in the right direction to get your pen moving and get away from the blank page. These workshops are for writers with various levels of experience and will concentrate on poetry. .
Each session will focus on a type of poem and use prompts as a starting point. Throughout the course we will look at the work of traditional and contemporary poets to illustrate the different types of poetry. Some of the exercises will involve working in pairs or groups - this can be helpful as a means to share responses and receive feedback on your ideas whilst working with others.
Each session will take the shape of:
• A short warm-up exercise to get the ink flowing
• A look at and discussion about examples of the kind of poem we will be basing that session on
• A longer exercise – this might involve photographs, group exercises and free writing among others
• A read-out of what has been written so far and some discussion
• Further writing. This will probably be for around 20 minutes and be followed by more reading out and sharing of work done or there will be the opportunity to discuss ideas.
You might not end up with a finished piece (certainly within the time constraints of workshop) but you will have something you can take away and finish at a later date. The idea is to create a welcoming, supportive space in which to write. There will be time at the end of every week for a read-around of the piece you have written during the session, or one that you have taken away and finished after a previous session. There’ll be no pressure to get a specific piece finished but hopefully you’ll end up with a portfolio of work.
£75 full fee, £40 seniors free places for those in receipt of certain benefits - please enquire dionne.hood@bradford.gov.uk.
These workshops are about you and your writing. Whatever your writing experience, sometimes it’s good to get a prompt, a push in the right direction to get your pen moving and get away from the blank page. These workshops are for writers with various levels of experience and will concentrate on poetry. .
Each session will focus on a type of poem and use prompts as a starting point. Throughout the course we will look at the work of traditional and contemporary poets to illustrate the different types of poetry. Some of the exercises will involve working in pairs or groups - this can be helpful as a means to share responses and receive feedback on your ideas whilst working with others.
Each session will take the shape of:
• A short warm-up exercise to get the ink flowing
• A look at and discussion about examples of the kind of poem we will be basing that session on
• A longer exercise – this might involve photographs, group exercises and free writing among others
• A read-out of what has been written so far and some discussion
• Further writing. This will probably be for around 20 minutes and be followed by more reading out and sharing of work done or there will be the opportunity to discuss ideas.
You might not end up with a finished piece (certainly within the time constraints of workshop) but you will have something you can take away and finish at a later date. The idea is to create a welcoming, supportive space in which to write. There will be time at the end of every week for a read-around of the piece you have written during the session, or one that you have taken away and finished after a previous session. There’ll be no pressure to get a specific piece finished but hopefully you’ll end up with a portfolio of work.
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