Name: WORD OF MOUTH @ Chorlton Arts Festival
Start: 2025-05-20T19:30:00+01:00
Location: The Carlton Club

A fun evening of spoken word as part of Chorlton Arts Festival. Featuring
Zena Barrie
Kate Hook
Jo Howard
Tom Jenks
Thomas Marsden
Melanie Neads
Fat Roland
Reshma Ruia
Dave Williams
WITH SPECIAL GUEST ROBIN INCE reading from and talking about his new book.
In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, Robin uses his own experiences to explore the neurodivergent experience and to ask what the point of “being normal” really is. Packed with
personal insights, intimate anecdotes and interviews with psychologists, neuroscientists and many neurodivergent people he has met along the way, this is a quirky and witty dive into the world of human behaviour.
“One of the UK's most accomplished comedians.”
-The Bookseller

Book your tickets on Eventbrite here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/word-of-mouth-chorlton-arts-festival-tickets-1217686425879

Zena Barrie is a festival producer and writer. Her debut novel Your Friend Forever was published in 2021. Her very silly short story collection Two similar looking men with umbilical hernias will be out soon.

Kate Hook is a Mancunian mum-poet who writes about imperfect parenting, online idiots, and why what we see on social media is largely nonsense.

Jo Howard is a teacher and writer of YA fiction. Her debut novel LEGAL WALLS won the Skylark Soaring Stories Award

Tom Jenks writes poetry and short prose and does weird things with charts. He edits the small experimental press zimzalla.

Melanie Neads is a poet, playwright, and dramaturge from Salford whose new collection of univocalic poetry and plays, Euphoria, was published by Flapjack Press in Autumn 2024.

Fat Roland is a writer and idiot who has performed for the Lowry, the Royal Exchange and M15. Wait, the MI5 thing is secret. Dammit. Please can you edit that bit out?

Reshma Ruia has written two novels, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, and Still Lives, winner of the 2023 Diverse Book Readers’ Choice Award and longlisted for the 2023 Peoples Book Award. She has published a poetry collection, A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, and a short story collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness.
www.reshmaruia.com

Dave Williams is a well-travelled stand-up comedian, spoken word performer and comedy course tutor at the Frog and Bucket.