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The Story Sessions (our now retired bimonthly themed live literature series)
14/11/2023 Getting by in Tligolian, a speculative time travelling novella by Roppotucha Greenberg Online launch videos
25/07/2023 Deptford Library BSL Poetry event
Poets Lisa Kelly, Sahera Khan and Zoë McWhinney perform BSL poetry and run a BSL poetry workshop. Presented in BSL with interpretation into English.
20/07/2023 Afrori Books
A J Akoto reading from her debut poetry collection UnMothered and in conversation with Brighton poets Priss Nash and Aflo.the Poet who are part of an anthology of black writing from Penguin Part of a Story That Started Before Me
19/07/2023 poetry walk on Blackford hill, Edinburgh, with Jane Aldous reading from her poetry collection More Patina than Gleam which is set in Edinburgh.
13/07/2022 Online launch for A J Akoto’s debut poetry collection UnMothered
11/07/2023 Housmans Book launch for A J Akoto’s debut poetry collection UnMothered
06/07/2023 Juno books 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield, S1 2PD
Writing Queer Joy – reading and workshop with Jeremy Dixon
18/06/2023 Roundtable Books Readings from multiple authors involved in our global majority anthology Where We Find Ourselves
20/06/2023 Roundtable Books pre-publication event with poet AJ Akoto reading from her forthcoming collection UnMothered
21/06/2023 Keats House, Midsummer Shakespeare event with Michelle Penn (Paper Crusade) and Jennifer A McGowan (With Paper for Feet) – readings
22/06/2023 Roundtable Books Reading by Rhiya Pau from her debut (award winning) collection Routes
29/11/2022 7.30pm In Words an online showcase of 4 of our recent poetry books: Routes, How to be a Tarot Card (or a Teenager), A Pocketful of Chalk and Paper Crusade. This event wasn’t recorded, but at the last minute Rhiya couldn’t make it so we recorded some poems with herfor the event, which will be up here shortly
24/11/2022 at Keats House Launch for Routes by Rhiya Pau. A packed audience for this one – video will be available when I’ve found time to edit
23/11/2022 Forest Hill Library Writing the Diaspora – a conversation between Rhiya Pau author of poetry collection – Routes and Anna Fodorova author of the novel In the Blood with very different takes on the refugee experience video to follow soon!
25/10/2022 Launch of In the Blood at the Czech Embassy initial photos
20/10/2022 Launching How to be a Tarot Card (or a Teenager) by Jennifer A McGowan at The Oxford Poetry Library first recordings
11/10/2022 National Coming Out Day ONLINE in conversation with fellow Arachne Poet Kate Foley YouTube
Jeremy Dixon touring A Voice Coming from Then
13/10/2022 Cardiff Central Library Hub, a joint event with Jeremy Dixon and George Sandifer-Smith
06/10/2022 (National Poetry Day) 1-2 pm Waterstones, Carmarthen
06/10/2022 (National Poetry Day) 7pm Waterstones, Cardiff
05/10/2022 6.30pm The Hours, Brecon
Across July 2022 launches for A Pocketful of Chalk by Claire Booker
21st July The Hours Cafe & Bookshop, Brecon A470
24th July: The Poetry Pharmacy, Bishop’s Castle, A470
30/06/2022, A470 National Library Aberystwyth
24th June 2022 Paper Crusade at Keats House Library Video
22nd June 2022 online launch for Paper Crusade Video
21st June 2022 to launch Michelle Penn’s book-length poem, Paper Crusade: Enchanted Island Books. Michelle talked about which books she would save if she was shipwrecked on her island.
01/06/2022, A470, Senedd-dy Owain Glyndwr Machynlleth videos
31/05/2022, A470 Siop Lyfrau’r Hen Bost, Blaenau Ffestiniog videos
30/05/2022, A470 Storyville Pontypridd
28/05/2022, A470 Cardiff Library
23/04/2022, A470 at Caffi Soar Merthyr
22/2/22 Where We Find Ourselves: Writing the Diaspora, A Conversation Arachne Press poets Nikita Chadha, Alex Williams, Gita Ralleigh, Seni Seneviratne, Des Mannay, Marina Sanchez and Catherine Okoronkwo, talked about diaspora experience and the power and significance of creative response.
2nd January 2022, Jeremy Dixon at Live From the Butchery Online
21st December Solstice Shorts 2021 Words from the Brink
4th November 2021, 19:00 – ONLINE Launch of Where We Find Ourselves
31st October 2021, 14:00-16:00 – LIVE Launch of Where We Find Ourselves – Keats House –
30th October 2021, 14:00 – Arachne Press at Gloucester Poetry FestivalJennifer A McGowan Jane Aldous Rob Walton Kate Foley Math Jones Ness Owen Emma Lee Jeremy Dixon
Thursday 26th August 2021, Launch of A Voice Coming From Then by Jeremy Dixon
14th August 2021, Laura Besley at Local Writers: Writing through the pandemic
29th July 2021, Launch of Strange Waters by Jackie Taylor
25th July 2021 – Arachne Press at the Causley Festival (Online)
24th June 2021 – Launch of Accidental Flowers by Lily Peters
Brockley Max 2021:
June 2nd – Imagined Spaces – A Writer’s Approach to Place
May 31st, Short, Flash, Poem?
May 30th – Keeping Up With a Paper and Pencil
May 27th 2021 – Launch of Incorcisms by David Hartley, and 100neHundred by Laura Besley.
May 9th 2021, Local Author Virtual Premiere for Zed and the Cormorants Cornwall libraries
April 24th 2021 Launch of blog tour for Zed and the Cormorants @a_never_ending_story. Check out all the coverage here .
Solstice Shorts 2019 Time & Tide: videos and audio being uploaded now…
Launch of Departures: Part 1 & Part 2
Launch of Let Out the Djinn by Jane Aldous at Lighthouse bookshop, Edinburgh video 1, video 2
Mamiaith launch Holyhead videos
Story Cities Panel discussion with the editors at Greenwich Book Festival videos
Story Cities LAUNCH PARTY Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich videos
Story Cities Manchester Blackwells Launch party
Math Jones read from The Knotsman 23rd April 2019The Hive, Worcester
Math Jones the Launch Party for The Knotsman 10th April 2019
Nell of Old Drury video
Jeremy Dixon read from In Retail on 30th March at The Arnolfini Bristol
NOON Book Launches 21st March 2019:
CORK Waterstones
GREENWICH Stephen Lawrence Gallery videos: Marika Josef, Clare Shaw, Michelle Penn, Stuart McKenzie
27th March 2019 Blackwell’s Aberdeen
Solstice Shorts 21st December NOON at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Carlisle, Ynys Mon, and London (Blackheath)
An Outbreak of Peace London Launch: Housmans Bookshop 14th November Videos: Valerie Bence!, Sarah Tait, Katy Darby, Chantal Heaven, Peter Kenny, CB Droege, Clare Owen, Karen Ankers
An Outbreak of Peace Manchester Launch: Blackwells Bookshop 30th November with readings from Ness Owen, Sarah Tait, Mantz Yorke (Poetry) Lily Peters, Rebecca Skipwith (Fiction) Videos
16th August 2018 launch We/She
19th July 2018 launch Five by Five
Erratics launch Blackwells Manchester
St Johns Festival: stories and poems from Laila Sumpton, Cherry Potts, Pippa Gladhill, Michelle Penn, Katerina Watson
A Gift of Rivers at Gays the Word
Archway with Words festival another #Arachne5 event
Shoreham Word Fest Liberty Tales and Songs of Protest: Arachne joins forces once again with part of Vocal Chords Choir for stories, poems and songs
#Arachne5 Our 5th Birthday celebrations at Manor House Library Lee:
Katy Darby Liam Hogan Carolyn Eden Carrie Cohen reading David Mathews Carrie Cohen reading Ghillian Potts Jeremy Dixon
Old Woman from Friuli/ Brat
Launch (With Carrie Cohen)
Brockley Max (With Katy Darby)
Deptford Lounge (with Carrie Cohen)
Stanmore Library, (With Patsy Prince)
Osterley Library, (With Sarah Feathers)
West Ealing Library (With Cherry Potts)
Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed
06/04/2017 London launch Stoke Newington with Carrie Cohen reading some of the stories
20/4/17 North Kensington Library, with Louisa Gummer reading one of the stories.
25/04/2017 Lewisham Library (videos), with Carrie Cohen reading one of the stories
26/04/2017 Burley Fisher bookshop, with Carrie Cohen reading one of the stories
28/04/2017 Albion Beatnik
03/05/17 Teashop Tales
04/05/2017 West Greenwich Library, with Lisa Rose reading one of the stories
17/05/2017 The Story Sessions, with Annalie Wilson reading one of the stories.
Foraging
Keats House Library
Sheffield
With Paper for Feet
23/02/2017 Keats House Library
03/03/2017 Oxford Albion Beatnik
04/03/2017 North Kensington Library
08/03/2017 Lewisham Library
Shortest Day Longest Night
06/01/2017 Albion Beatnik
10/1/2017 St James Wine Vaults
11/01/2017 Lewisham Library
14/01/2017 Wivenhoe Library
04/02/2017 North Kensington Library
Liberty Tales
17/11/2016 Greenwich Launch West Greenwich Library
18/11/2016 Albion Beatnik
23/11/2016 Lewisham Library
01/12/2016 Housmans Bookshop
10/12/2016 North Kensington Library
10/1/2017 St James Wine Vaults
25/01/2017 Greenstead Library
4/06/2017 Brockley Max
Solstice Shorts Festival3:
Story Sessions: Fantastical tales video 1 video 2 video3
Story Sessions:RETELLING Tales Poems1 Poems2 Poems3 Stories Flash from the floor
Story Sessions:Winter Tales
Story Sessions: Freedom tales
Story Sessions: Childhood Tales
Story Sessions: Asylum Tales: Poems, Refugees Welcome, Songs
Midsummer in the Garden: play, poetry1, poetry2, poetry3, story, songs 1, songs2
Cherry Potts, Rebellion: writing Fantasy at Brompton Library
The Other Side of Sleep poets at London Book Fair
Readings from The Dowry Blade, Cherry Potts and The Don’t Touch Garden, Kate Foley; Gay’s the Word
The Dowry Blade Launch, The Beckenham Bookshop
The Dowry Blade Launch, Clapham Books
The Dowry Blade Launch, Lewisham Library reading 1 reading 2 reading3
The Don’t Touch Garden Amsterdam Launch
Solstice Shorts 2015: Longest Night
Longest Night Folk Singing workshop
Launch of The Don’t Touch Garden
Word on the Street: Clerkenwell Literary Festival
The Other Side of Sleep:Cheltenham Poetry Festival
The Other Side of Sleep: Grange over Sands Library,
The Other Side of Sleep: Keats House
Cherry Potts & VA Fearon North Kensington Library
Devilskein & Dearlove Lewisham
Devilskein & Dearlove Newham and Brentwood
The Story Sessions November 2014 Narrative poetry and announcement of Solstice Shorts winners
Saturday 8th November Middlesborough: Westgarth Social Club, The Other SIde of Sleep poets: Adrienne Silcock, p.a. morbid (accompanied by Kev Howard), Judi Sutherland.
The Other Side of Sleep at Bom-Bane’s Brighton 2nd October 2014
Rochester Literature Festival Bookmark’d Sunday 28th September 2014 12-4pm Guildhall Museum
The Story Sessions: Beastly Tales 19th September 2014
The Story Sessions: Youthful Tales July 2014 also here and here
Brockley Max Festival – Other Worlds also here and here
The Story Sessions: Technicians Tales May 2014
The Story Sessions: Old Wives Tales 12th March 2014
LoSoCo LGBT History event 27th February 2014
Cafe of Good Hope LGBT History event 26th February 2014
Crofton Park Library LGBT History event 21st February 2014
The Story Sessions: Queer Tales 19th February 2014
Walthamstow Library LGBT History event 12th February 2014
North Kensington Library LGBT History event 11th February 2014
Lewisham Library LGBT History event 6th February 2014
The Story Sessions: Family Tales 15th January 2014
The Story Sessions: Solstice Tales 11th December 2013
Lewisham Library Weird Lies Reading 5th December 2013
Peckham Literary Festival 28th November 2013
The Story Sessions: Armistice Tales 13th November 2013 (National Short Story Week)
Writing with your ears @Words over Waltham Forest 12th November 2013
The Story Sessions: Haunting Tales for Halloween 30th October 2013
Ilkley Fringe Festival – On the Write Track 15th October 2013
Weird Lies & Mosaic of Air Launch 1st October 2013
Weird Lies & Mosaic of Air Launch part 2: 5th October 2013
Berkhampsted Speak Easy 25th September 2013
Towersey Festival 22-26th August 2013
Leeds Book Fair Saturday 27th July 2013
ArachneFest 1st birthday celebration at Clapham Books Thursday 18th July 2013 7pm
Southwark Arts Fair Saturday 13th July 2013 6-7pm
Oxjam Dalston takeover Saturday 13th July 2013
Cherry Potts reads at Brixton Book Jam Monday 8th July 2013 19:30
Crystal Palace Overground Festival Saturday 29th June 2013
Misty Moon Festival Ladywell Tavern Sunday 9th June 2013
Writing on the Move, Hillingon Arts Week, Writing Workshop 1st June 2013
Arachne Press at the Keats Festival 25th May 2013 Writing Workshop & Reading
Katy Darby at Brixton BookJam May Bank Holiday: 6th May 2013
CityRead Stations at Gayton Library, Harrow Tuesday 30th April 2013
Cherry Potts on panel for CityRead discussion at Ealing Library Saturday 27th April 2013
Cityread Stations at Forest Hill Library Thursday 18th April 2013
Stations readings at MVMNT cafe Greenwich Wednesday 20th March 2013
Booked history-Herstory Sunday 17th March 2013
Arachne Press at Branching Out LSE Space for Thought Literature Festival 2nd March 2013 part 1, part 2 , part 3 , part 4
Lovers’ Lies at Wood Green Central Library 28th February 2013
Lovers’ Lies Meet the Authors Daunt Bookshop Hampstead 18th February 2013
LGBT History Month Event at Deptford Lounge 11th February 2013
LGBT History Month Event at Ealing Library 7th February 2013
Lovers’ Lies at Clapham Books 6th February 2013
Friern Barnet Library Free-for-All Tuesday 29th January 2013
Lovers’ Lies Launch at Keats House 27th January 2013
Stations Whitechapel Reading at Whitechapel Ideas Store 17th January 2013
Stations Norwood Reading at South Norwood Library 12th January 2013
Stations Crystal Palace reading at Bookseller Crow on the Hill 10th January 2013
Stations Shoreditch Reading at Brick Lane bookshop 6th December 2012
Stations OFFICIAL LAUNCH Brunel Museum 2nd December 2012
Stations Reading at Deptford Lounge 29th November 2012
Stations Forest Hill Reading at Canvas & Cream 28th November 2012
London Lies reading at Waterstones, Oxford Street, 22nd November 2012
Stations reading at Clapham Books 21st November 2012
London Lies Reading Kilburn Library 27th September 2012
London Lies Reading Clapham Books 20th September 2012
London Lies Reading MVMNT Cafe 12th September 2012
London Lies Launch London Review Bookshop 5th September 2012
