Fire & Dust at PVC: JEFF COTTRILL!
Schedule
Thu Jun 04 2026 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Priory Visitor Centre | Coventry, EN
About this Event
Fire&Dust is currently hosted in Coventry's Priory Visitor Centre.
** You DON'T need a ticket to attend or be in the open mic.
Poets - please ONLY register for a ticket if you need a guaranteed open mic slot and can definitely attend. Please DON'T register for a ticket if you had one last month. There will also be open mic slots available on the night. **
Fire & Dust is a monthly poetry open mic event in Coventry city centre, hosted by local poets Ann Atkins and Raef Boylan. All welcome - 'page' poets, spoken word artists, slammers, MCs, story-tellers and anyone happy to listen to some wordsmith performances. Doors open for people to come in, grab seats and get settled around 7.15pm. The gig will start at 8PM.
Open mic slots are 3 minutes per poet. Find Raef (with clipboard) to sign up!
Travelling in from afar? Got accessibility concerns? Any queries? Please contact the hosts: raef @ hcemagazine DOT com
Bring friends, bring poems, or just come along for a listen! Take precautions to stay safe and keep others around you safe - respect people's preference to keep their distance, and please don't attend if you suspect you might have anything contagious. Cheers.
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HEADLINER: JEFF COTTRILL
Jeff Cottrill is an award-winning fiction writer, performance poet, and journalist based in Toronto, Canada. His performance style is influenced by slam conventions, but subverts them with wit, ironic humour and a satirical tone. He has headlined literary and performance events throughout Canada, the U.K., the U.S., Ireland, France and Australia for more than twenty years. In 2021, his poem "This Is Not Real Poetry" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and last year, his story "The Madness East of St. George" won the MoonLit Getaway short-fiction contest. His second novel, Performance Reviews, was published in November 2025. Jeff likes movies, travel, and puppies.
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NEW OPEN MIC SYSTEM:
Some open mic tickets are available to reserve here on Eventbrite; the rest are for sign-up on the night. Priority will be given to poets who didn't get to read last month. If you read last month and want to read again, your name will go on the reserve list for random draw to fill empty slots. Most poets who want to read WILL get to, but sometimes the list is too busy to fit everyone in!
Please don't register for a ticket if you had one last month. Also, please do not take the ticket that is called ! STOP. NOT A TICKET, STOPS 'Sold Out' ALERT! - cheers.
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The Priory Centre is in Coventry city centre. It's located in Priory Place, behind Nando's/The Flying Standard Wetherspoon (Trinity Street), just a short distance from where The LTB was, and 2 minute's walk from Pool Meadow bus station. Info about nearby car parks and street parking can be found .
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Free entry. There will be a jar for donations on the night. Alternatively, you can to help Fire & Dust gigs keep going.
For additional info, check out the .
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Where is it happening?
Priory Visitor Centre, 6 Priory Row, Coventry, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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