[BRACK] was founded in 2022 as a vessel for works that grapple with the human experience in all its snapshots. We seek not only poems, stories, and lyric essays, but also editorials, science features, and digital installations. We aim to dare this world by disturbing the known.

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Waterstones

Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho launches Poetry Prompts campaign on National Poetry Day to 'inspire a nation of poets'

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Online
26th Sept

Rebel Riot Poetry is an inclusive, online poetry night with featured acts and an open mic. It is held on the last Monday, every other month from 7:30-9pm. September's featured acts are JP Seabright, Jem Henderson & Jonathon Kinsman! It's a Genderfux takeover!!!

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Fox & Grapes, Nottingham
27th Sept

Poet Alan Baker, author of 'Letters from the Underworld' and 'Rivverrun', will be our guest reader for the next Dandelions evening. As usual there will be a friendly and supportive open mic, so come along and read your poems.

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Historic Lightship John Sebastian,Bristol
28th Sept

Satellite of Love Poetry and Spoken Word run monthly events, workshops and writing retreats. Our monthly events at the Lightship Theatre offer a platform for local and touring poets, open mic and a community poem.

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YADA, Green Lane, Derby
28th Sept

It's time for another of our regular Poetry Praise Sandwich events hosted by Derby-based poets Sonia Burns and Camille McCawley at YADA's non-alcoholic bar on Green Lane.

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FiveLeaves Bookshop,Nottingham
28th Sept

Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once a lifetime. All we ask is that you read the book in advance and take part in the discussion. There’s a short introduction by a member of staff or a group regular or someone we know with a special interest in the book in question.

From the ‘Hitchcock of the River Plate’ (Corriere della Sera) comes Piñeiro’s third novel, a unique tale that interveaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individual freedom.

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Online
29th Sept

This is the first of six international online events organised by Five Leaves Bookshop, with funding from Arts Council England. The events bring writers from our region of England together with native writers from the cities we are visiting. All of those cities are UNESCO Cities of Literature, as is Nottingham, and as Nottingham’s independent bookshop we want to help to establish links with other Cities of Literature, their authors and their bookshops.

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Nottingham Writers' Studio
29th Sept

This course will help writers, poets and participants explore the power of poetry, how we can use our art form to challenge bigotry and create a more supportive world of solidarity and understanding.

I will perform several poems to inspire creative writing tasks and lead to open floor discussion about the issue raised in the poems.

Participants will be supported through writing prompts and discussion points with the core aim of developing poems or creative ideas on how to challenge discrimination and create a more positive world.

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Nottingham Writers' Studio
1st Oct

It’s time again for our fabulous monthly social! Meet up with fellow writers to discuss/argue the night away over the most affordable drinks in town. The bar opens at 6pm and shuts when we say it does (or until The Carousel kicks us out) so come, enjoy and be merry at the one place which won’t be packed on Saturday night. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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New Art Exchange, Nottingham
25th Nov

Developed as part of her recent residency at NAE (July to September 22), artist and educator Ioney Smallhorne will be presenting a new body of writing produced as part of her research project Jamaica & Her Daughters in an interactive and multi-disciplinary poetry experience.

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