Posts Tagged ‘wordPLAY’
Birds of a Feather Flocking Together: A Flock of Poets, Thurs 17th Nov
Posted by: Bronagh on: November 10, 2011
If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose? The great auk, like the one I just knitted for Ghosts Of Gone Birds, in aid of BirdLife International’s preventing extinctions programme. – Margaret Atwood, Guardian Q&A, 29th October 2011 Despite my unofficial retirement from the world of spoken word, I have [...]
wordPLAY Day
Posted by: Bronagh on: March 15, 2011
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Today is Tuesday, when our beloved wordPLAY returns to the whiskey-soaked wonderment of the Good Ship for more wordsmithery, creation, larks and literary spectacle. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm, it’s £3 in and all proceeds go to Cancer Research UK. And the line-up is mind-bogglingly amazing. We worked very hard on it, [...]
Art Happens
Posted by: Bronagh on: February 24, 2011
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Two bits of excellent news: Firstly, the wonderful team at Storm In A Teacup have released issue 2 of their titular zine, once again featuring alternative female artists and writers dealing with female-positive topics and creating delightful things. I am extremely pleased to say that I have a story featured amongst the illustrious company, and [...]
What I meant to say was…
Posted by: Bronagh on: January 22, 2011
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I am very super extremely happy to announce that wordPLAY is returning for another charity event, this time in aid of Cancer Research UK, on 15th March 2011 (so close to St Patrick’s day you can practically smell the alcohol on my breath.). We’re in the process of confirming the line-up, but it’s looking pretty [...]
Have you heard about the wordPLAY line-up? You can’t handle the wordPLAY line-up.
Posted by: Bronagh on: November 6, 2010
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As the days tick sullenly down to 23rd November (for real, I mean, this weather, ack), I get more and more excited and nervous and terrified and excited. Not about wordPLAY, not really, but when you’ve put a metric shit tonne of work into an event, I suppose it’s natural to imagine the things that [...]
A Rare Moment of Sincerity
Posted by: Bronagh on: October 12, 2010
c. Kit Ryall 2010 One of the hardest things about being an aspiring writer is other writers. Specifically, the highly motivated, self-promoting kind, who know how they should be marketed and the sort of people who should know their name. Literary events are a breeding ground for it. They watch the crowd at literary events, [...]
Participating in some consensual wordPLAY
Posted by: Bronagh on: May 1, 2010
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(This is not me, but I expect to be pulling similar fists of pure emotion) This Tuesday (4th May) I will be appearing at wordPLAY, one of London’s finest spoken word evenings, based at The Good Ship in Kilburn. There I shall be reading that modern Fegan classic, “People Are Awful”, a character monologue that [...]
