Here is the latest newsletter for my followers to peruse:
Events and Opportunities from
Commonword
October 2024
Dear writer,
We're bringing you some Friday literary feel good with upcoming
events and audio inspiration 💃🏾 Our team
are feeling fantastic after finding out that Commonword is a
finalist in the Manchester Culture Awards 2024! Thank you to
everyone who placed a vote for us - fingers crossed for the award
ceremony in November 😃
Happy reading,
Commonword
This Black
History Month join our Global Majority writers’
collective Identity for an
evening of poetry and storytelling. Identity Live is a showcase of
the eclectic range of talent in our city – you can expect to hear
from poets, spoken word aficionados and fiction writers.
The theme for
this event is Catharsis. Alongside the performances there’ll
be time to network and learn more about Commonword’s creative
opportunities.
This free event is on Thursday 24th October,
6-8pm at the gorgeous House of Books of Friends. Refreshments
provided.
Join our writing
collective! We’re looking for Black, Asian and Middle-Eastern
writers based in Manchester to join us at our weekly meet-up 🤝🏼 Share your wip,
whether it be fiction, spoken word, poetry or memoir. The
group meets every Wednesday from 6.30pm - 8.30pm, to share and
discuss our creative writing, and to learn about current
opportunities.
How can artists contribute to tackling the
environmental crisis? Hear from inspired artist Maya
Chowdhry, as she takes us through her creative
odyssey from reluctant teen to pioneering, seed-planting, eco-music
cultivating international poet 🌱 A must for all those wanting to write us into a
greener world.
Unnerving powerful new novel
from Yvonne Battle-Felton
"I sometimes start dreaming that I want to get
away from urban life, the city, with all its drama, clash, fumes
and rantings. I dream of a rural idyll where I am cut off from all
that, perhaps somewhere populated mostly by black people because
then we escape racism surely? And, well, wouldn’t we build a better
civilization given all we have been through and learnt along the
way?
One of the UK’s
most inspirational contemporary poets, Imtiaz Dharker
performing poems from her fascinating new collection
Shadow Reader. The poems acknowledge wilful erasures,
exclusions and places of sanctuary. Imtiaz is supported
by the brilliant Romalyn Ante with her stunning second
collection AGIMAT
Cabaret for
Freedom with The Untold Orchestra, Sukina Noor & Young
Identity: An evening
celebrating legendary poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron.
Enjoy the sublime vocals of Yemi Bolatiwa supported by a
string quartet from the Untold Orchestra, soul nourishing
poetry from spoken word artist Sukina Noor, and new
work created especially for the occasion by Young Identity.
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