Words on Tap
This event on 26th September 2014 at 19:30 has past.
Open Mic Event
Contact: wordsontap@email.com
Next week sees the third-to-last instalment of not-for-profit literary event Words on Tap, featuring a fantastic line-up of authors including Mark Connors (who will be taking on hosting duties), Linda Marshall and Miles Salter. There will be the usual open-mic section, and tickets for the Paul Farley event in November will be available. See you next Friday Sept 26th at The Chemic Tavern, Woodhouse, 7.30pm. FREE admission. More info below and at wordsontapblog.wordpress,com.
Mark Connors is a writer from Horsforth, Leeds. His poetry has appeared alongside works by Simon Armitage, Andrew Motion and Antony Dunn in anthologies and also in magazines such as Dream Catcher, Prole, Indigo Dreams, The Dawntreader, the Alarmist, Sarasvati and many others. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of ezines/webzines both in the UK and the USA. Mark has also written two as yet unpublished novels and is currently working on his third. He is also the editor of the Twitter Fiction magazine, Twiction Addiction @twictionaddict. His website is www.markconnors.co.uk. You can also follow his Twitter Fiction @markywriter.
Linda Marshall has had two collections of her poetry published, Brakken City (Fighting Cock Press, 1997) and Half-Moon Glasses (Flux Gallery Press, 2009). For many years, she was co-editor of Aireings poetry magazine. In 2012 she received a commission to write a poem in celebration of the centenary of her local cinema (Cottage Road Cinema) and took part in the Leeds Lieder event in 2013, in which she collaborated with a composer to write a poem set to music. She has written a series of poems that interpret paintings on a South Indian dance theme, exhibited in 2014. She was a member of Pennine Poets and is now involved with Lucht Focail, a group of Irish writers, and takes part in readings in and around Leeds.
Miles Salter is a writer, musician and storyteller based in York. He has published two collections of poetry with Valley Press, The Border (2011) and Animals (2013), and was shortlisted for The Times / Chicken House children's writing award in 2010. He likes Marmite, early Bruce Springsteen albums, and Philip Larkin. Head to ww.miles-salter.co.uk
Entry: FREE
Time: 7:30pm
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