UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
All events are on our wegottickets page where you can book your place.
Monday 14 September 9am – 10am – online writing workshop.
A chance to write to prompts in timed exercises, and to get the words flowing. An excellent start to the week!Free for Friends of Word Kitchen. £10 for other attendees (email pmarriott203@gmail to sign up, or to become a friend via the website website) There will be two of these a month – more info to come.
Wednesday and Thursday 23/24 September10am – 6pm - Writers’ Hub
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival SOLD OUT! But there is a wait list… A cornucopia of writing-related discussions, panels and opportunities.
Thursday 24 September 6.30pm Open Mic Budleigh Salterton, Brook Kitchen SOLD OUT
Tuesday 13 October 11am – 3pm – Sidmouth, South West Art Space:
Writing from Despair to Hope
"Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defence - the creative act”
In this workshop we will write and read words of consolation and comfort, and explore ways of offering ourselves - and others - permission to hope. The workshop will be facilitated by Pippa Marriott and you will be in an environment that is supportive and gives you space to create new writing.Places cost £22 (£17 WK friends)
Tuesday 20th October 6.30pm – 9pm Open Mic at the Exeter Phoenix:
Autumn Leaves is our theme.Writers can interpret this literally as a prompt for writing about the season, the shift in the light, nature's changing colours, and patterns, or metaphorically. It can be an extract from a short story, a piece of nature writing, flash fiction or novel segment with an autumnal setting, or a fragment of memoir that's rekindled by the season and its sense of endings, and the approach of winter.
10 minute reading spots (maximum time including any introduction) and we would love you to book a ticket and reading spot. Poetry, prose, extracts or short stories (<800 words) All welcome! Email sidmouthdavid@outlook.com to book a spaceTickets: £6.00 (WK Friends - £3.00)
November Sidmouth Open mic date to be announced
Tuesday 15th December - Festive Fandango at the Phoenix – more info soon!
Time limits for open mics - these sometimes vary from event to event so please check!
Prose - c700 words /< 7 minutes of reading
Poetry - 5 minute limit
email sidmouthdavid@outlook.com to book reading slots
for all events, go toWORD KITCHEN to buy tickets
Readers don’t have to pay but it is very helpful if they do in terms of us covering expenses!
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Spring Open Mic - The power of place
An evening of wonderful prose and poetry connected to the power of place, some from our upcoming anthology. Come to read or to listen and enjoy the excellent company and food.
To book a reading slot, email David at sidmouthdavid@outlook.com
Prose Open Mic
A marvellous array or writers and ideas being shared in the convivial setting of Brook Kitchen, Budleigh Salterton, including Elizabeth Delo and Orlando Murrin. Come and listen, be inspired, sign up to read next time!
Writing Workshop
A creative writing session to get the juices flowing in the run up to our first prose Open Mic. Pippa will offer succulent prompts to get the pen moving across the page, and author Elizabeth Delo will talk to us about her journey to publication. Free. FULLY BOOKED
Dunkeswell Youth Club
A series of writing sessions to cook up ideas about character and place, and how to get a story going. We will share some of our work too, when we are ready! Everyone welcome.