The Summertime Sleepover ft. Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana Mon 23rd Sept

Get comfy & settle in to a relaxed evening of poetry from the comfort of your own space via Zoom.

Feel free to join the open sharing or simply kick back with a mug of whatever you're drinking & take in some great words 🎙✨📚

Eyemasks, nightcaps & PJ's welcome.

Yes please!

9.00pm Intro & settle in.

9.10pm Open Mic YOU!

9.40pm BREAK

9.50pm Special Guest

10.10pm Q+A (any questions for our ft please ask away!)

10.25pm Little Meditation & checkout

10.30pm Bedtime 🛌 😴

Laurie x

✨ 📚 Special Guest this month is Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana

Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana’s first collection, Sing me down from the dark (SALT; 2022) is in its third issue. She is a PGCE-qualified teacher and has been teaching, mainly in higher education, for 28 years. She has been published in numerous magazines including P.N. Review, Poetry Wales, The Moth and Artemis Poetry, and, inspired by Japanese forms, has zuihitsu, haibun and tanka in Issue 70 of The North and the latest issue of Obsessed with Pipework. She also recently guest edited Issue 11 of The Alchemy Spoon.

In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Fish Prize and Leeds Poetry Festival Award, highly commended in the Winchester Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. She lived in Japan for 10 years and has Master’s degrees in Writing Poetry and in Japanese Language and Culture. She will visit Japan in November to work on her second collection and give a talk at the Japan Writers Conference, in Futaba.

www.alexandracorrintachibana.com

Instagram @corrintachibanapoetry

Twitter X: @CorrinTachibana

✨ 📚 Hosted by Laurie Bolger

Laurie Bolger is a London based writer & the founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club. Laurie’s work has been widely anthologised & has featured at Glastonbury, TATE & Sky Arts. Laurie’s first publication Box Rooms celebrated community & her W10 roots.

Laurie was the winner of The Moth Poetry Prize & was shortlisted for The Sylvia Plath, Bridport & Forward Poetry Prize. Her latest books include Makeover & Spin celebrating the resilience of working class women, autonomy & love.

Laurie has collaborated with global brands, charities & organisations such as Google, Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Liberty, Penhaligons, Nationwide, Glastonbury, Choose Love, Mind UK, TATE & Sky Arts.

Laurie has been teaching creative workshops for over a decade bringing people together to celebrate their own unique voices & scribbles.

“If you ever want a cosy, creative, calming place to explore writing, Laurie's workshops are perfection…My heart is so full (I know what that means now)” Breakfast Clubber 2024

“If I could jump inside her poems I would…I imagine it’d be lovely & warm in there” Hollie McNish

www.lauriebolger.com

Instagram @lauriebolger_

Twitter @lauriebolger

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