STORIE: EXPERIMENTS IN PROSE

Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 & another eclectic night of experiments in prose featuring a full line-up of West Midlands-based writers including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL.

ELFRIEDE ATWAL is a writer studying narrative design in videogames. They spend most of their time either accidentally breaking their own games or working on their novel, a trans horror reimagining of ‘The Road’.

THOMAS GLAVE is the author of four books & the editor of an anthology, ‘Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles’. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, Glave's work has received numerous honours & awards including a prestigious O. Henry Award for his story ‘The Final Inning’. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, the University of Warwick, & a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is a trustee of Writing West Midlands, Peepal Tree Press, & an associate editor of Transition & Wasafiri.

SJ KIM was born in Korea and raised in the American South. She is the author of ‘This Part is Silent’, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Burn Prize. Her writing on racial, gendered, institutional and political violence has appeared in Wasafiri, Oxford American, TOLKA, and The Hanok Review among other publications. She resides in the UK and teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick.

LYZA LAWAL is a writer & book blogger based in Birmingham. She grew up in London & was schooled in Nigeria. A lover of African classical literature & magical realism, she explores books through a cultural lens. Lyza has contributed to readin.mag (2025) and Project Myopia (2021). She is currently working on a short story collection.

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KILDER BAR is located at 5 Shaw’s Passage, Digbeth with step-free access via the entrance on Shaw’s Passage.

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