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Live literature in Manchester. Voted UK's Best Regular Spoken Word Night – twice! Run by @JPMDaly & @FatRoland. ✉️ [email protected]

Manchester
Joined October 2009
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TONIGHT! @BadLanguageMcr is back for a special one-off event celebrating the launches of @DanCarpenter85’s HUNTING BY THE RIVER and @Glen_J_Brown’s MOTHER NAKED. They’ll be joined by @AbiFAHynes and @matthewhill. Doors: 6.30, starts: 7.00 Venue: @anthonyburgess 🎫👇🏻 – at Bredbury, England
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Thurs 30 May We’re teaming up with @BadLanguageMcr to host a very special night celebrating the release of @DanCarpenter85’s HUNTING BY THE RIVER and @Glen_J_Brown’s MOTHER NAKED. They’ll be joined by @matthewhill and @AbiFAHynes. 🎫 eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackwell…
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🎫 NEW EVENT! 🎫 We’re teaming up with @BadLanguageMcr to host a very special night celebrating the release of @DanCarpenter85’s HUNTING BY THE RIVER and @Glen_J_Brown’s MOTHER NAKED. They’ll be joined by @matthewhill and @AbiFAHynes. Details and tickets via link below 👇🏻
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Just ONE HOUR LEFT to vote in #SabAwards21! What are you waiting for?! forms.gle/qqUxYovCKQkt7qrM7
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Facebook reminded me of this sinister Vietnamese weeble containing a chiming lump of dull, grey metal. I passed it to the audience at a @FirstDraftMcr/@BadLanguageMcr/@realstoryuk Christmas event a couple of years ago and never saw it again. Presumed loose and haunting.
The wait is over! The 2020 shortlist is here: edgehill.ac.uk/englishhistor… Congrats to our 5 writers and well done to all the longlisted writers as well for such brilliant collections. @rodgeglass @saraheschofield @thejackdawspen @ailsacox @JDPRutter @ElizabethBaines @ggaffa
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We miss standing in a packed room with our drinks getting warm just to hear people read their words But next Friday (31st July) 8pm we're back on Zoom with headlining poets @AliceGodliman @lourowpoet & a bill of open micers! Sign-up for FREE to attend: bit.ly/32vqykF
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We're on the lookout for entrants to represent Manchester at the #CitiesofLit International Slam-O-Vision! If you're a spoken word star in the making be sure to find out how to apply before 31st July here: manchestercityofliterature.c…
We haven't got the final countdown music, but we have got a final countdown reminder. Voting for the #sabawards20 will close at midnight tonight so this is your last call for votes: form.jotform.com/20108221143…
Publishers, poets, reviewers and more! If you want to nominate something or someone for the #sabawards20 then here's your chance. The votes close at midnight so go, go, go: form.jotform.com/20074262391…
Cooped up at home? Enhance your wellbeing through poetry! Write a #Climate themed poem in 280 characters & tweet w/hashtag #Micropoem20 for a chance to win £500 in our new #poetry comp! Judged by esteemed poets inc @lemnsissay. INFO: uom.link/poetrycompetition #GetCreativeAtHome
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Required: Manchester based person with ability to read & a clear reading voice, a patient person, for (likely) one week’s work. DM or email [email protected]
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Very pleased to see my poem The Finger finally in print - in the rather mysterious Dreams & Nightmares magazine. It was first commissioned AGES ago for @BadLanguageMcr's brilliant @MuseumsAtNight event @mcrjewishmuseum
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For this month's Bad Language, we welcome Aberdonian in Japan @iainmaloney as he launches his new memoir The Only Gaijin In The Village. Open mic spots released tomorrow! badlanguagemcr.com/2020/03/0…
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We have a 5-day short story challenge coming from @taniahershman starting 30 March! Sign up for Tania’s challenge, and we’ll deliver her tips straight to your inbox for free. By the end of the week you could have a draft of a shiny new short story... bit.ly/3crBtyj
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HUGE thanks to everyone involved @BadLanguageMcr for supporting the QuietManDave Prize. You can find out more about how to access a sponsored entry - and how to sponsor an entry - here: www2.mmu.ac.uk/qmdprize/spon… - or just search for “QMDPrize”. ✍🏼🤗♥️
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Emails have been sent (apologies for delays flat related dramallamadingdong) ONE open mic slot remains! I would really love it to go to a one time Stirred regular rather than a newbie if possible (we have fresh blood too) email [email protected] @StirredPoetry
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I'm being made to co-host this tonight with @jpmdaly. You can come if you want, but you'll have to sit in the corner facing the wall. Er... I mean... Hey everyone, come to Bad Language tonight, it's going to be grand!
We'll be spending tomorrow's Bad Language in the company of QuietManDave prize judges Kate Feld and Tania Hershman - look how sunny they are! - and our shiny shiny open mic. @gulliversnq 7.30pm Wed 26 Feb
Are you searching for some more spoken word action this week? Want to hear some good good not bad language? BAD LANGUAGE starts at 7.30 tonight in @GulliversNQ – raising money for the @QuietManDave prize 💛
Here are our open mic people for tomorrow. Step forward Amanda Steele, Andy N, Anna Percy, Antonia Fusaro, Emma Roy-Williams, Lisa O’Hare, Nadia Purcell, Sam Smith, Sarah Jasmon and Ste Brown! What a FINE list of names.
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