🎤 Join an electric line-up featuring author & translator POLLY BARTON, novelist TARIQ GODDARD, writer & performance artist SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON & Birmingham-based spoken word artist KESOMI for the final STORIE of 2025!

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🗣️♦️ Wow! From our first ever open subs call, five working-class writers stepped up to the mic to perform their own EXPERIMENTS IN WORKING-CLASS PROSE as part of this year's Birmingham Literature Festival. And what a night it was...?! Thank you to everyone who joined us 🙏

📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🎤 Announcing the full line up for EXPERIMENTS IN WORKING CLASS PROSE: five writers selected from our first ever open submissions call.

✍️ UTTARAN DAS GUPTA, SOPHIE HUCKFIELD, SAM HUNT, JULIE IRIGARAY & SHARONA KENWRICK

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🗣️♦️ Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening STORIE event of season three & to our stunning all Birmingham line-up JOEL BLACKLEDGE, GARETH GAVIN, ANDY HOWLETT & JESS SHANNON!

📸 Here's some snaps from the night courtesy of our resident photograher Rebekah Lyndon

🗣️♦️ We are absolutely thrilled to announce that STORIE has been awarded an Arts Council England Lottery Fund grant to support our work until June 2026!

🙏 Thank you @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for supporting experimental prose writing & writers in the West Midlands.

🎤 We are delighted to welcome you to STORIE for a new season of experiments in prose feat. another line-up of exceptional writers from Birmingham inc. JOEL BLACKLEDGE, GARETH GAVIN, ANDY HOWLETT & JESS SHANNON.

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