Location: Sheffield Plate (downstairs)
Host: Beverley Ward
Sounds About Write is The Writers Workshop's live literature event featuring invited guests from the world of publishing plus aspiring authors. This month we welcome performance poets Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger.
For an open mic slot, email workshopwrite@gmail.com
About our guests:
Emma Purshouse is a poetry slam champion and performs regularly at spoken word nights and festivals across the UK, sometimes using her native Black Country dialect. She was the first Poet Laureate for the City of Wolverhampton and has performed at loads of festivals! In 2017, Emma won the 'Making Waves' international spoken word competition and she’s the current editor of Blackcountryman magazine.
Steve Pottinger is an engaging and accomplished performer who has performed the length and breadth of the country. His work regularly appears online in CultureMatters, Yorkshire Bylines, and the Morning Star, and has won prizes or been commended in Bread & Roses, Prole, Poetry on Loan, Plough, Guernsey International, Arran, Verve, and Poets & Players poetry competitions. His seventh volume of poems, Snapshots from the Fall of Home, published by Ignite Books, is out now.