Word Central open mic

Open Mic Event

Contact: mail@flapjackpress.co.uk

Website: https://flapjackpress.co.uk/pages/word-central

Word Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word.
Presented by Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries.

Tuesday 24h June, 6.00pm – 7.45pm, at Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD.
Doors open 5.40pm and free entry.
Hosted by Tony Curry with special guest Kim Moore.

Book your open mic slot from noon on Tuesday 10th June via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk.
N.B. Open mic slots are 3 minutes per performer – it is essential that you stay within this timeframe.
Performance slots are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis from the stated booking time. If they are already filled you will be offered a place on the reserve list.

Our special guest Kim Moore is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and hosts a monthly reading series for Wordsworth Grasmere, as well as running regular writing workshops for young people and adults. She has won an Eric Gregory Award, the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and the Ledbury Poetry Competition. Her first full length collection, The Art of Falling (Seren 2015), won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and her second collection, All the Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021), won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Kim has also been a judge for the Forward Prize and the National Poetry Competition, and her work has been translated into many languages as part of the Versopolis project.

Event host Tony Curry is a performance poet, playwright and workshop facilitator. Raised in Crawley by English and South African parents, he has lived and worked in Manchester for three decades, running literature-in-the-community projects with a specific leaning towards mental health and wellbeing. His play, The Teddy Bear, was staged at Manchester’s Contact Theatre, whilst his solo spoken word shows include Brit Boy, Complicit Relations, Moving and The Odyssey, performed at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Tony has recently toured his solo show Tall Tales for All Men, adapted from his collection Tall Tales for Tall Men Who Fall Well Short (Flapjack Press, 2012), at the Brighton Fringe and Chorlton Arts Festival.

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Entry: Free

Time: 6:00pm (Doors 20 mins before start)