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Upcoming Events (all free unless stated otherwise)

MAY

25/05/2023 7pm Online launch for our Audiobooks: In the Blood, Paper Crusade and Routes. meet Authors Michelle Penn and Anna Fodorova, and narrators Saul Reichlin, Nigel Pilkington, Lisa Rose, Farhana Kalique, and possibly Sophie Aldred. book your ticket

JUNE

18/06/2023 6.30pm Roundtable Books Brixton Market SW9 8PS
Readings from multiple authors involved in our global majority anthology Where We Find Ourselves book your free place

19/06/2023 6.30pm Roundtable Books Brixton Market SW9 8PS
Writing Queer Joy – reading and workshop with Jeremy Dixon book you free place

20/06/2023 6.30pm Roundtable Books Brixton Market SW9 8PS pre-publication event with poet AJ Akoto reading from her forthcoming collection UnMothered book your free place

21/06/2023 7pm Keats House 10 Keats Grove, London, England, NW3 2RR
Midsummer Shakespeare event with Michelle Penn (Paper Crusade) and Jennifer A McGowan (With Paper for Feet) – readings and a sonnet workshop (come to one half or the other or both) get your free ticket

22/06/2023 8pm Roundtable Books Brixton Market SW9 8PS
Reading by Rhiya Pau from her debut (award winning) collection Routes book your free place

JULY

06/07/2023 6.30-8pm Juno books 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield, S1 2PD
Writing Queer Joy – reading and workshop with Jeremy Dixon book your free ticket

08/07/2023 North Books, 4 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5DF
A470 Poems for the Road/ Cerddi’r Ffordd reading with Isobel Roach, Stephen Payne, Sian Northey, Gareth Writer-Davies, potentially Sara-Louise Wheeler & Des Mannay (date provisional)

11/07/2023 7pm Housmans 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DY
Book launch for A J Akoto’s debut poetry collection UnMothered free ticket here

13/07/2022 7pm Online launch for A J Akoto’s debut poetry collection UnMothered for those who can’t get to London or Brighton book your  free ticket.

19/07/2023 2-4pm poetry walk on Blackford hill, Edinburgh, with Jane Aldous reading from her poetry collection More Patina than Gleam which is set in Edinburgh. book you place (attendance requires a copy of the book – buy from us, your local bookshop or as part of your ticket)

20/07/2023 Afrori Books Brighthem Centre, North Road, Brighton BN1 1YD
A J Akoto reading from her debut poetry collection UnMothered (time to be confirmed)

25/07/2023 6.30-8.30 Deptford Library, Griffin Street SE8

Poets Lisa Kelly, Sahera Khan and Zoë McWhinney perform BSL poetry and run a BSL poetry workshop. For everyone, but particularly for Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Presented in BSL with interpretation into English. free tickets

AUGUST

03/08/2023 6.30-8pm The Good Book Shop 264 Church Road, St George, Bristol, BS5 8AF
Writing Queer Joy – reading and workshop with Jeremy Dixon tickets by donation (suggested £5) book you place

10/08/2023 2-4pm poetry walk on Blackford hill, Edinburgh, with Jane Aldous reading from her poetry collection More Patina than Gleam which is set in Edinburgh book your place (attendance requires a copy of the book – buy from us, your local bookshop or as part of your ticket)

SEPTEMBER

05/09/2023 6.30pm Online: Writing Queer Joy – reading and workshop with Jeremy Dixon book your place
12/09/2023 6.30pm Online: Writing Queer Joy – reading and workshop with Jeremy Dixon book your place

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