WORD CLUB

Open Mic Event

Contact: mark@markconnors.co.uk

Hi! Our 3rd Word Club night will take place on Friday 27th March 2015, from 7.30 pm, at The Chemic Tavern, Leeds. Our special guests this month are Gaia Holmes, Winston Plowes, and Joanna Sedgwick.


Gaia Holmes is a nationally known poet. She has read at literary festivals throughout Britain and beyond. Her poem ‘Claustrophobia’ was highly commended in the ‘Best Individual Poem’ category of the Forward Poetry Prize, 2007 and ‘A Homesick Truckie in the Algarve’ was the featured poem in Frieda Hughes’ weekly literary column in The Times (May 2007). Her debut poetry collection, Dr James Graham’s Celestial Bed, was published by Comma Press in 2006. Her 2nd collection, Lifting The Piano With One Hand, (Comma Press), was published in September, 2013. She is currently working on her 3rd collection.

Based near Hebden Bridge in Calderdale, Winston Plowes lives aboard his floating home with his cat ‘Fatty’. In the past year he has collaborated with The Arvon Foundation, the BBC, Glastonbury Festival, UCLAN and Manchester Museum and has recently tutored on courses and workshops for The Square Chapel, The Princes Trust and West Yorkshire Playhouse. As Poet in Residence for the Rochdale Canal Festival in 2012 and The Hebden Bridge Arts Festival for the past three years he has being lucky enough to share his community orientated poetry with a wider audience.

Joanna Sedgwick has been published in various anthologies and literary magazines including The Rialto and Magma. She was a commended poet in the 2013 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Joanna is also working on her first novel.

We have at least 10 open mics slots available, so please come along and beguile us with your work. Time will be restricted to 3 minutes per person. Please time your work and stick to your 3 minutes so everyone can have an equal slot. Please see me (Mark Connors) on arrival to put your name down. We will do our best to fit everyone in but it won’t do your chances any harm if you arrive a bit earlier.

And remember, the first rule of WORD CLUB is:
WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT WORD CLUB….SO SPREAD THE WORD!
The Chemic Tavern, 9 Johnston Street, Woodhouse, Leeds. LS6 2NG.
Friday 27th March from 7.30 pm

Entry: Free

Time: 7:30pm