About this Event
Sounds About Write is The Writers Workshop's live literature event featuring invited guests from the world of publishing plus aspiring authors.
This time we're happy to have two of the founders of Wolverhampton arts collective Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists, Emma Purhouse and Steve Pottinger. Our guests perform and talk about their writing journeys. Then it's your turn to take to the stage for an open mic. Poetry or prose, anything goes! It doesn't have to be polished, and you don't have to be perfect; you just need something you'd like to share and that sounds about right!
Join Workshop members for social chitchat upstairs at Sheffield Plate from 5.30pm. The event (downstairs) will begin at 6:45pm.
For an open mic slot, email [email protected]
Please note: Performances begin promptly at 7pm. We must vacate the building by 9pm.
About our guests:
Emma Purshouse is a poetry slam champion and performs regularly at spoken word nights and festivals across the UK, sometimes using her native Black Country dialect. She was the first Poet Laureate for the City of Wolverhampton and has performed at loads of festivals! In 2017 Emma won the 'Making Waves' international spoken word competition and she's the current editor of Blackcountryman magazine.
“A whirlwind of wit and humour” – Write Out Loud.
Steve Pottinger is an engaging and accomplished performer who has performed the length and breadth of the country. His work regularly appears online in CultureMatters, Yorkshire Bylines, and the Morning Star, and has won prizes or been commended in Bread & Roses, Prole, Poetry on Loan, Plough, Guernsey International, Arran, Verve, and Poets & Players poetry competitions. His seventh volume of poems, ‘snapshots from the fall of home’ published by Ignite Books, is out now.
https://stevepottinger.co.uk/https://ignitebooks.co.uk/products-page/steve-pottinger-books/
‘ready as needs be to caress or deck humanity in all its beautiful stupidity’ Jonny Fluffypunk
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Orchard Square, 14 Orchard Square, Sheffield City Centre, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 7.00
