Words Out Loud

Are You Listening?

Events

1st Wed
each month

Open-Mic in person

Wagtail Coffee & Yoga in

Chichester

3rd Wed
each month

Open-Mic on Zoom

Celebrating the spoken word

In-Person and Online

In-Person

Next Event: Wed 2nd Feb - 6:30pm

Open-Mic at Wagtail

Join us for our regular in-person Open-Mic event at Wagtail Coffee and Yoga in Chichester, West Sussex. We meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month. The event is free to attend and open to anyone. Come along and read some of your own poetry, a published poem or even read some prose. Wagtail serve excellent coffee and there is also organic and vegan beer and wine available.

Visit the Wagtail Coffee & Yoga website for info on the location etc.

https://wagtailcoffeeandyoga.com

Book your free place

On Zoom

Jan 19th - 6:30pm

On Zoom

Featured Reader & Open Mic: Stephanie Norgate

Stephanie Norgate is a poet and playwright. Her plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. For many years, she ran the MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She edited an international collection of essays, Poetry and Voice (CSP, 2012) and Winchester Poetry Festival’s Chalk Poets Anthology (Sarsen Press, 2015). In 2016, she completed a study of poetry trails for South Downs National Park. As a translator, she has contributed to Modern Poetry in Translation and the MPT anthology, Centres of Cataclysm (Bloodaxe Books/MPT, 2016). Her chapter about the imagery of the house in her poetry appears in Architectural Space and the Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her three collections of poetry with Bloodaxe are Hidden River (2008), which was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, The Blue Den (2012) and The Conversation (2021).