WORD CLUB SPECIAL
This event on 25th November 2016 at 19:30 has past.
Open Mic Event
Contact: wordclub@hotmail.co.uk
Come and join us for our annual WORD CLUB SPECIAL on Friday 25th November 2016. We are proud to announce our great line up for this ticket only event. KATE FOX, ANTONY DUNN, BECKY CHERRIMAN and TOM WEIR. Tickets are priced at £8 if you buy directly from WORD CLUB or you will incur a £2.00 booking fee should you wish to purchase via PayPal or pay by cheque. We are also having our usual lucky draw where 7 ticket holders will be drawn at random to perform 3 minute slots on the night. We only have 50 tickets for sale so make sure you get yours quick when they go on sale from 30th September 2016.
Kate Fox has made a living as a stand-up poet for ten years. Being funny & Northern is sometimes a help and sometimes a hindrance and she’s doing a PhD about why. Sometimes they let her on Radio 4. Her car radio is tuned to Radio 2.
Antony Dunn lives in Leeds. Winner of the Newdigate Prize and an Eric Gregory Award, he has published three collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators, Flying Fish and Bugs. His fourth, Take This One to Bed, is published by Valley Press in October 2016. He edited and introduced Ex Libris, a posthumous collection of poems by David Hughes (Valley Press 2015). He is Artistic Director of Bridlington Poetry Festival. www.antonydunn.org
Becky Cherriman is a writer, workshop leader and performer based in Leeds. Published by Mslexia, New Walk, Envoi, Mother’s Milk, Bloodaxe, Well Versed and in Poets For Corbyn, she was resident poet for Morley Literature Festival in 2013. Her first poetry pamphlet 'Echolocation', on the theme of mothering, and her first collection 'Empires of Clay' are published in 2016 by Mother’s Milk and Cinnamon Press respectively. This year Becky co-wrote and performed in Haunt, a site-specific theatre commission for Imove, a project that worked with people experiencing homelessness in Harrogate. She is lead artist for Altofts Festival In A Day and for Alice In Bloomers, an Arts Council and Leeds Inspired funded project inspired by historical Morley woman, Alice Cliff-Scatcherd. She frequently collaborates with communities to help them tell their stories. www.beckycherriman.com
Tom Weir’s poetry has been Highly Commended in both the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize. He was one of the inaugural winners of the Templar IOTA Shots competition and his first full collection, All That Falling, was brought out by Templar last year.
Kick off is at 7.30 pm.
And remember, we always talk about WORD CLUB so SPREAD THE WORD....
Entry: £8 on the night. £10 paypal
Time: 7:30pm
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