Word of Mouth
Live Literature Nottingham
Word of Mouth is Nottingham Writers' Studio's live literature event, which give members a platform to share their work with a wider audience. It runs four times a year and is currently based in the relaxed and intimate setting of the Antenna cafe-restuarant.
Expect to see writing from across the spectrum, with poetry, fiction, drama, music, work-in-progress and published work all part of the mix.
Previous events have featured readings from studio members such as poet and editor of Staple magazine Wayne Burrows and award-winning novelist Nicola Monaghan. Special guests are also invited; past performers have included actress and comedienne Sophie Woolley and singer-song writer Jay Hannah Thomas.
A Night of Horror, 31 October 2011
The Broadway Cinema bar, 14–18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL
7.30pm, 31 October 2011, entrance free
Word of Mouth, Nottingham Writers' Studio's live literature night, brings a night of horror to the Broadway Cinema bar in
association with the Mayhem Festival.
A coven of writers stir up a stew of fiction, storytelling,
drama, film, and history from the spooky side.
Nicola
Valentine will be hosting the night and reading from her hew novel The
Haunted. She'll be joined by Megan Taylor (The Dawning) reading from her just-about-completed third novel The Lives of Ghosts, and
Charlotte Thompson with the toe-curling opener to her crime thriller What Lies in the Dark. Meanwhile, storyteller Pete Davis will be giving us the blood-and-guts on a certain Mr Fox.
Rachael Pennell and Jonathan Greaves will be performing Andrew Kells's new SMS ghost
script Sent/Received, in which text messaging turns out to be the only means of
communicating between slipped time streams (directed by Andrea Milde).
What have
bicycles, Mary Shelley, and the 'year without a summer' got to do with
one another? Graphic novelist Brick (Depresso) reveals all in his story
'The Godforsaken Year', featuring frames from his forthcoming book Leonardo's Bicycle.
Plus three cult classics on screen,
courtesy of Mayhem: Tom Baker reading 'The Emissary' by Ray Bradbury from Late Night Stories; 'The Mezzotint' read by Robert Powell from Classic
Ghost Stories by M.R.James; and from Christopher Lee’s Ghost Stories for
Christmas, 'The Ash Tree'.
Please note, this Word of Mouth takes place at the Broadway, not Antenna, our usual venue.
Check out the Facebook event page if you'd like to come along.
Nottingham and the World, 19 May 2011
On 19 May Word of Mouth will be bringing together writers in Nottingham with writers from around the world, beamed onto the walls of Antenna's cafe-restaurant.
On Skype, we will be hearing from Kelly Malone in New Zealand, Shonan Kothari in India, Michael Freerson in Holland, Eiríkur Norðdahl from Iceland, Nora Nadjarian from Cyprus, and Margot Douaihy from the USA.
In Nottingham, there'll be storytelling, poetry, and fiction, all responding to the idea of 'contact' - whether contact with the other side, mediated by internet technology, or Britain's greatest contact sport.
Local writers include Pete Davis, Mulletproof Poet, Sue Dymoke, Eve Makis, Robin Vaughan-Williams, and Deborah Bailey. The evening is hosted by novelist Nicola Monaghan, and there'll be images from Thomas Darby.
Doors open at 6pm, with the kitchen open until the start time of 7pm. Entrance is free.
For more information, or to hear about future NWS events, contact Robin at admin@nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk or on 0115 959 7947.
Thursday 19 May, 7pm start
Antenna cafe-restaurant
9a Beck Street, NG1 1EQ
Here's a clip from the night, featuring Kell Malone.
About the Writers
On Skype...
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl is an Icelandic poet living in Finland. He works with performance and sound-poetry, regularly appears at poetry and music festivals, and dabbles occasionally in the dark arts of the concrete. He is the author of three novels and is also an avid translator.
Shonan Kothari is a writer and doodler of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She discovered spoken word events on recent travels, and now encourages the very first hints of such events in Mumbai, rooting for the culture to take her city by storm. She contributes to local publications and international literary magazines.
Kelly Malone joins us from New Zealand, where she tutors in Creative Writing at the University of Auckland. She often reads her poetry, and is published in local New Zealand zines and print journals.
Nora Nadjarian is a prizewinning poet and short story writer from Cyprus. She is the author of three collections of poetry and a book of short stories, Ledra Street. Her work was recently included in Best European Fiction (Dalkey, 2011) and Being Human (Bloodaxe, 2011).
With a pocket full of poetry, Michael Freerson is an aspiring superhero washed up on the foreign shores of the Netherlands. Provocative and precise, he loves to weave and rhyme around the basin of sexual melancholy until the coffee gets cold.
Margot Douaihy is a writer, editor, and English professor at Marywood University in Pennsylvania. She received her Masters degree from the University of London, Goldsmiths, and is a certified Medical QiGong and Hot Yoga instructor.
...and on Stage
Mulletproof Poet, ‘the illegitimate child of John Cooper Clarke and Roger McGough’, is truly a troubled poet for troubled times. A regular face on the performance poetry scene, his debut collection Citizen Kaned is due to be released in 2012, through Crystal Clear Creators.
Sue Dymoke is a poet and senior lecturer in the School of Education, University of Leicester. This spring she was in New Zealand for three months as a visiting scholar at the University of Auckland, where she was working on a new poetry collection (due out with Shoestring Press in 2012).
Eve Makis has worked as a journalist and radio presenter in England and Cyprus. The author of three books, her first—Eat, Drink and Be Married—was voted Young Booksellers International Book of the Year and published in five languages. She has just finished her fourth book and is currently working on a film script. Eve's work will be performed by actress Rachael Pennell on 19 May.
Robin Vaughan-Williams is a poet, author of The Manager (Happenstance Press, 2010), and works at NWS. He's interested in performance, collaboration, and improvisation in poetry—see some of his past projects here.
Pete Davis runs Storytellers of Nottingham and has been telling stories for over fifteen years. He's a retired firefighter, and gives performances and workshops in storytelling to anyone from children and businesses to village halls.
Deborah Bailey is a fiction writer and works as an editor for an academic journal.
Read more about Word of Mouth in LeftLion and in this is Nottingham (Nottingham Evening Post).
