Please join us on Wednesday August 13th at 7pm for The Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading, with featured readers Holly Fletcher and Brenda Finlayson, with Nicola Thorstensen as MC. We will run our usual open mic, so please bring one poem if you wish to read, and see Nicola on the night to sign up.
Attendance is FREE, but if you have the means please support our co-hosts by purchasing refreshments during the evening.
We are a hate-free zone and decry any bigotry, hate speech, transphobia, homophobia, or racism - bring only your creativity and community spirit.
Holly Fletcher is a writer living in Ōtepoti Dunedin. She is the Head Librarian at the Athenaeum Library & Mechanics Institute. She curates a fortnightly radio show called Books Uncovered, on Otago Radio Access. Holly gained a BA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, London, UK. She is working towards her Masters in Creative Writing at Otago University.
Brenda Finlayson is a former journalist and therapeutic counsellor who started reading and writing poems as a teenager, perched in a giant macrocarpa on the hill behind her family’s poultry farm in Clyde. She lived in Australia for 35 years, returned to Aotearoa eight years ago and is now inspired by life on Otago Harbour, where she walks and cycles, grows veges and watches the birds and sea creatures.
Your Collective committee:
Jackson
Mac MacDonald
Jasmine Taylor
Lee Thomson
Nicola Thorstensen
Sophia Wilson
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