October Rise Up!
Schedule
Wed Oct 30 2024 at 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
201 Acomb Road, Yo24 4HD York, United Kingdom | York, EN
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October RISE UP! - with Heidi Williamson, James Giddings & Wendy Allen Wednesday 30 October - Bluebird Bakery, Acomb. Doors 7.30 - 8.30 start.
Heidi Williamson teaches and mentors poets worldwide for organisations including New Writing North, Scottish Book Trust, the National Centre for Writing, Writing Coach, Poetry Society, and The Poetry School. Previously a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of East Anglia, she was also Writer-in-Residence at the John Jarrold Printing Museum and at the Science Museum in London. Her first collection Electric Shadow was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. The Print Museum won the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry. Return by Minor Road, focussing on her time living in Dunblane at the time of the Primary School shooting, featured in The Guardian and was a Poetry Society and Out-Spoken Press Book of the Year.
James Giddings was born in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He now lives in Sheffield. His debut pamphlet Everything is Scripted won Templar Poetry's book and pamphlet award.
Wendy Allen's debut pamphlet, Plastic Tubed Little Bird, was published in 2023 by Broken Sleep and her pamphlet, Portrait in Mustard, is due for publication later this year by Seren. She is a PhD candidate at Manchester Met researching Barbara Hepworth's sculptural practice as a new poetic practice.
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Open mic slots are available - email [email protected]
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
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Where is it happening?
201 Acomb Road, Yo24 4HD York, United Kingdom, 203 Acomb Road, York, YO24 4, United Kingdom,YorkEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
