Sounds About Write with Rosie Garland

Join The Writers Workshop for its monthly live literature event downstairs at Sheffield Plate. Each month we invite a published author to share their work and insight into their writing journey, and then we open the floor to emerging writers in our open-mic segment. Your work doesn't have to be polished ... it just needs to sound about right!

The event begins at 6:45PM, but join members of the Workshop upstairs from 6:15PM for some socialising before the event.

To reserve an open-mic slot, please book an open-mic ticket through Eventbrite (Note: we will no longer be taking open-mic bookings over email).

We're pleased to welcome Rosie Garland as our guest for October. With both poetry and short story collections to talk about, it's going to be a really interesting discussion, we're sure! Plus, don't miss out on your opportunity to join Rosie for a special workshop Crafting Your Collection, all about how to put together a poetry or short story collection of your own.
Rosie has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries, and a firm belief in the power of persistence. She writes poetry, fiction, song lyrics & is lead singer of post-punk band The March Violets. Her work has featured in The Guardian, Mslexia, Bronte Parsonage Museum and commissions include Tate Modern and Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester. Latest collection, 'This Is How I Fight' (Nine Arches Press) was The Observer Poetry Book of the Month for June 2025.

Val McDermid has named her one of the UK's most compelling LGBT+ writers, & in 2023 she was made Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

Website - http://www.rosiegarland.com/

Photo credit: Nic Chapman.

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