The online open mic with OOMPH!

d/Deaf & neurospicy access provided via screensharing all work!

8 reader slots for writers of any gender, in any genre! Sign-up to the open mic here.

Now with special themes so you can get your creative thinking caps on...this month, we're especially interested in readings that riff on TRUTH, LIES & FAKE NEWS. Interpret that how you will, and suprise us...or just bring some words you're proud of!

Cost

This event is subsidised by Arts Council England. Please choose EITHER a free ticket OR a ticket+donation if you're able to support our Future Fund.

About our headliner

Degna Stone is a poet and poetry editor based in northeast England. They are a contributing editor at The Rialto and a co-founder of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine. They received a Northern Writers' Award for poetry in 2015 and a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2019. Their debut full-length collection, Proof of Life on Earth, is available from Nine Arches Press.

Their poetry also appears in Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets (Bloodaxe), Writing Motherhood (Seren), Urban Myths and Legends (The Emma Press), Filigree (Peepal Tree Press), More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry (Canongate Books), and elsewhere.