A new writers group from Lister Steps, created especially to encourage new up and coming writers, writers who have yet to be published and to encourage us all to be creative through writing!
Sessions will be held in The Tower Room at The Old Library on Tuesdays at 3.30pm at £2.
The group will be supported by a small group of writers who have had stories published already and there will be occasional motivational speakers.
Roger McGough, the ‘Living proof of himself,’ and President of the Poetry Society not only helped kickstart the musical careers of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, but inspired hundreds, if not thousands of young poets (well, quite a few), on their poetic journeys.
85 years old and at that awkward age now between birth and death, he puts on a brave face and takes to the stage with a show featuring new poems as well as old favourites.
It’s that time of year again when the Liverpool Literacy Cycle shifts its focus from one skill to another.
They will be launching the Second Liverpool Literacy Cycle at Central Library on Saturday 28th January with a return to Liverpool Year of Reading, following a fruitful Year of Spoken Word in 2022.
They will also be launching the 2022 Liverpool Year of Spoken Word book at the event, highlighting some of the impressive oral literary achievements across Merseyside.
Pre-orders of the book can be made at the link below and it will also be available to purchase on the day:
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The Reader are excited to launch Story Explorers, their exciting new Storybarn sessions for children aged 4 – 9.
They’ll be diving headfirst into the wonderful world of storytelling, getting creative in the craft room and making up stories of our own.
Siblings under 1 can join for free but will still need a ticket.
Please call them on 0151 729 2227 if you need any help with your booking.
A Lovely Word, downstairs at the Everyman, is Liverpool’s most eclectic poetry night.
It features two halves of open mic poets, and a headliner beginning the first half. Hosted by Alex Ferguson and team, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.
Chris Singleton is a performance poet and freelance theatre & spoken word practitioner based in Leeds, UK.
In 2013 he created Crowd Versing – a form of improvisational spoken word where every poem is based on an audience request and performed live, with no pre-planning or writing. He is in the process of developing the form into a full-length live show.
In his work as a practitioner, Chris has more than two years’ experience working with young people and adults with learning disabilities. He runs workshops for the West Yorkshire Playhouse at their centre for young people, and also runs projects and youth theatres for Castaway Goole, Purple Patch Arts, North Yorkshire County Council and charity People in Action.
Chris is a practicing member of Playback Theatre Company, ThreadBear Theatre, and of comedy improvisation troupe Monkeyheads. His main loves in life are dinosaurs, sandwiches and calzones.
A Lovely Word, downstairs at the Everyman, is Liverpool’s most eclectic poetry night.
It features two halves of open mic poets, and a headliner beginning the first half. Hosted by Alex Ferguson and team, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.
Malaika Kegode is an award-winning writer, performer and creative producer based in Bristol. Her work is focused on uplifting and celebrating the overlooked and misunderstood. Beginning her arts career as a performance poet in 2014, Malaika has since developed her practice to encompass theatre, radio and film writing.
Her gig-theatre show Outlier, an autobiographical piece about addiction and isolation in rural England performed with prog-rock band Jakabol was the first piece of new writing to appear on Bristol Old Vic’s main stage in 2021. Malaika’s work has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and Black Ballad. Her poetry collections Requite and Thalassic are published by Burning Eye Books.
Malaika also works in film. She has been an associate curator at Watershed in Bristol, a resident at Encounters Film Festival and was the 2021 recipient of the Elspeth Kydd Memorial Prize for Film Studies.
A Lovely Word, downstairs at the Everyman, is Liverpool’s most eclectic poetry night.
It features two halves of open mic poets, and a headliner beginning the first half. Hosted by Alex Ferguson and team, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.
Introducing alt-pop poet, Louise Fazackerley.
With work rooted in word-witchery and the working class, Louise explores the synergy between poetry, voice and movement in a way that makes the ugly beautiful and the mundane fantastical. Winner of BBC Radio 3 ‘New Voices’, European Slam Finalist and support artist for punk legend Dr. John Cooper Clark, Louise is a true, Northern powerhouse. Welcome to her world of darkly humorous poetry.
Previous poetry collections include The Lolitas and The Uniform Factory (Verve Poetry Press), Bird St. (The Secret Writers Club) and audio book, Council House Poetry (Nymphs & Thugs.) Louise has a degree in Theatre Studies and Creative Writing from Lancaster University and an MA in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University.
She lectures and teaches creative writing in schools, prisons and universities. When she is not writing, Louise is loping around Wigan and wrangling two teenage daughters and two teenage cats.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) whilst most obviously defined as a gothic text is also a travelogue, a love story, and a picture of contemporary Victorian life. Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) sets science against superstition on the mists of the Grimpen Mire.
Both novels are brilliantly atmospheric as they investigate heritage, transgression and power.
This course will run fortnightly starting on Thursday 2nd February 2023.
Week 1: Face to face. Introduction to texts. Discussion and analysis of Dracula (up to end of Chapter VIII).
Week 2: Face to face. Discussion and analysis of Dracula (up to the end of Chapter XVIII).
Week 3: Face to face. Discussion and analysis of Dracula (up to the end of the novel).
Week 4: Face to face. Discussion and analysis of The Hound of the Baskervilles
Full fee £53/Concession fee £26
This is a 10 week poetry writing / reading course with a focus on 10 ‘Queer Icons’.
They will examine the contexts and themes of 10 Queer poets and the poetic techniques that make each poet ‘iconic’, through close readings, discussions, and writing exercises.
They will explore multiple associations with the word ‘icon’, from the symbolic and sacred, to fetishism and celebrity. They will look at each poet through a multitude of lenses and disciplines (music, visual art, performance, playwritng, film) as a way of demonstrating the impact and influence of their work throughout history.
The ambition of this course is to draw from the past in order to embed these queer icons in a future literary canon.
Week 1: Danez Smith
Week 2: Mary Jean Chan
Week 3: Sam Sax
Week 4: Jos Charles
Week 5: Natalie Diaz
Week 6: Joelle Taylor
Week 7: Andrew McMillan
Week 8: Editing Workshop
Week 9: C A Conrad
Week 10: Jericho Brown
Courses fees: Full fee £132/Concession fee £66
What was it that made writings of Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, and Brendan Behan so objectionable? This course will look at these authors, and more, in order to examine Irish novels that have faced censorship in Ireland or abroad.
Are these authors attempting to intervene in the politics of their time? Should their writings be seen as provocative or incendiary? Or are they simply trying to create art?
Through weekly readings and class discussion, each week will introduce participants to the literary contexts of the novels or authors, and to the social and political contexts of the periods in which those novels were published. The course will therefore enlighten participants both on a social and historical as well as on a literary level, thereby catering to a wide range of interests.
The course would be suited both to those wishing to learn more about Irish history and society as well as to those who are simply interested in literature of all varieties.
Courses fees: Full fee £132/Concession fee £66