Write Out Loud open mic nights return to the Ring O’Bells, Middleton on Sunday 24 November at 7.30pm. Hosted by Norman Warwick, of Just Poets, the night will now include a “meet the writers” session and other new features. Norman said: “We will continue to include all the poets Gemma Lees made so welcome while she was host of these events, and we also hope to attract new and established writers from around the borough [of Rochdale] and beyond.” First guests will be the newly formed Touchstones Choir of the Voice Unspoken.