A fun evening of spoken word as part of Chorlton Arts Festival. Featuring
Zena Barrie
Kate Hook
Jo Howard
Tom Jenks
Melanie Neads
Fat Roland
Reshma Ruia
Dave Williams
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Zena Barrie is a festival producer and writer. Her debut novel Your Friend Forever was published in 2021. Her very silly short story collection Two similar looking men with umbilical hernias will be out soon.
Kate Hook is a Mancunian mum-poet who writes about imperfect parenting, online idiots, and why what we see on social media is largely nonsense.
Jo Howard is a teacher and writer of YA fiction. Her debut novel LEGAL WALLS won the Skylark Soaring Stories Award
Tom Jenks writes poetry and short prose and does weird things with charts. He edits the small experimental press zimzalla.
Melanie Neads is a poet, playwright, and dramaturge from Salford whose new collection of univocalic poetry and plays, Euphoria, was published by Flapjack Press in Autumn 2024.
Fat Roland is a writer and idiot who has performed for the Lowry, the Royal Exchange and M15. Wait, the MI5 thing is secret. Dammit. Please can you edit that bit out?
Reshma Ruia has written two novels, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, and Still Lives, winner of the 2023 Diverse Book Readers’ Choice Award and longlisted for the 2023 Peoples Book Award. She has published a poetry collection, A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, and a short story collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness.
www.reshmaruia.com
Dave Williams is a well-travelled stand-up comedian, spoken word performer and comedy course tutor at the Frog and Bucket.
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