Fictions of Every Kind: The Haunting (December 2011)
Fictions of Every Kind: The Haunting
Monday December 5th, Wharf Chambers’ Members Club*, Leeds, Entry £3
Fictions’ first birthday party! Spoken word sets from:
Matthew Bellwood a writer and storyteller based in Leeds. Over the last few years, he has worked everywhere from the Canadian Fringe to the International Shakespeare Conference in New Zealand. Along the way, he has performed in schools, libraries, theatres and pop-up museums, at DIY rock gigs and, on one memorable occasion, to an audience of 1,200 girl-guides in a tent… as a writer, he is particularly interested in the beauty of the everyday, the futility of silence, the arrogance of the shy and the endless possibilities that life offers us to change ourselves, our lives and the lives of those around us.
Claire Massey Claire’s short stories, poems and articles have appeared online and in print in an assortment of places including The Best British Short Stories 2011, Patricide, Cabinet des Fées,Enchanted Conversation, Flax, The Adirondack Review and Brittle Star. She has read at events including the Lancaster Literature Festival, the Didsbury Arts Festival and the Manchester Independent Book Market, and was winner of the Manchester Oxfam Short Story Competition in 2010. She is co-editor of Paraxis and founding editor of New Fairy Tales.
Music will come from The Roman Empire, who do this rather marvellous version of The Ghostbusters theme tune:
http://youtu.be/LeEllA3dgiI
& Writers’ open mic from 7.30: contributions of flash fiction, fiction, read poetry, essays with literary connections, and true stories with literary merit, are all welcomed. Please keep your contributions at around 6-7 minutes or under.& The Fictions of Every Kind independent press stall carrying fanzines and chapbooks of new writing and literary criticism. *Wharf Chambers is where The Common Place used to be, on 25-27 Wharf Street, in the City Centre. Wharf Chambers CC is a members’ club, so you either need to be a member or a guest of a member to attend. To become a member go to Wharfchambers.org or there are forms in the building you can fill in. Membership costs £1 and takes a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
