‘Reading poetry at an open-mic night changed my life!’
Heartening news about the healing power of open-mic poetry – something we at Write Out Loud have always evangelised about – has come in an article in the Guardian.
In a first-person piece in the newspaper’s life and style section Caroline Butterwick talks about how performing at the mic in Stoke-on-Trent changed her life.
In the article she says: “I had been attending these open mics for a y...
1st July 2025