Women of Tomorrow: An International Women’s Day Celebration Spoken Word > Poetry > Dance > Live Music > DJs > Open Mic > Bookstalls Women of Tomorrow is a celebration of womanhood and feminity in all its cross-cultural forms, bringing together organisations, community groups, and individuals from across the city. This is an LGBTQ+ and…
Details#Vote100 It’s 100 years since (some!) women were granted the vote. Nottingham writers studio, in partnership with Vote 100 and The Student Wordsmith, are hosting an open mic night to celebrate. All forms of readings and performances are welcome on the theme of votes for women, women’s rights and women’s perspectives. Readers do not have…
DetailsDoors at 7pm for 7.30 start. Free entry but donations for the Food Bank welcome. Every Last Biscuit is a collection of poems Lytisha has written over the past three years for and about her Mum and brother, both of whom she lost during a very difficult 2014/15. Other family members are also included, but…
DetailsThis event will take the form of a multi-media presentation based on poems from Angela France’s new poetry collection The Hill, published by Nine Arches Press. The book is Angela’s fourth collection and is a psychogeography of a hill she has walked for fifty years, blending her experience with the layered human history of the place. Angela…
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Local poet, Trevor Wright, is a member of Nottingham Writers’ Studio. His debut poetry collection ‘Outsider Heart’ has just been published by Big White Shed. When did you start writing poetry and what inspired you to start? Three years ago. I’d always wanted to write but was told at school that it wasn’t for…
October is already upon us. Goose Fair has been and gone in a flutter of bright lights and candyfloss. Conker shells and soggy leaves litter the edges of the pavements. The night draws close. It’s the perfect time of year to get inspired and curl up in a cosy nook to get working on…