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Voce Books
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📚 12pm-6pm, Weds-Fri; 11am-6pm, Sat; 11am-4pm, Sun 54-57 Allison Street, Digbeth, Birmingham [email protected] linktr.ee/vocebooks
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 7d
🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS WILL BE CLOSED ON SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER FOR BIRMINGHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL PREP

🎟️ For this year's full festival line-up & to book your tickets, head to the link in our bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 1d
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Hear from a true specialist of short-form fiction as Birmingham-based writer @alanbeard.bsky.social joins WENDY ERSKINE to launch his new @floodgatepress.bsky.social collection AFTERNOON DRINKING.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 6d
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 We are thrilled to be hosting acclaimed writer WENDY ERSKINE as she heads to Voce to discuss her daring, multi-perspective debut novel of motherhood, class & money THE BENEFACTORS.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 7d
🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS WILL BE CLOSED ON SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER FOR BIRMINGHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL PREP

🎟️ For this year's full festival line-up & to book your tickets, head to the link in our bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 7d
🗣️📚 SASHA DEBEVEC-MCKENNEY: JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME - WEDNESDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER 2025

🎤 in conversation with LUKE KENNARD, published by FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS

📸 REBEKAH LYNDON
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 8d
🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, SEPTEMBER 2025
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 10d
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Excited to welcome @jencalleja.bsky.social back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 13d
🗣✒️ We are delighted to announce the appointment of Birmingham writer & @storiebrum.bsky.social co-curator TAYLOR BURNS as the inaugural VOCE BOOKS WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE.

🎟️ For more info & to book for Taylor’s writer drop-in sessions & workshop, please follow the link to Eventbrite in bio
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storiebrum.bsky.social @storiebrum.bsky.social · 14d
🎤 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

🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 19d
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 We are thrilled to host a visit from American poet SASHA DEBEVEC-MCKENNEY to unravel her intimate, unashamed & hilarious new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social collection JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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storiebrum.bsky.social @storiebrum.bsky.social · 22d
🗣️♦️ 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.
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 26d
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚🇮🇹 Il VOCE ITALIAN BOOKS (CLUB) torna in autunno con un libro scritto da una delle nostre autrici italiane preferite: TUTTI I NOSTRI IERI di Natalia Ginzburg, pubblicato da EINAUDI.

🎟️ Riservate il vostro posto su Eventbrite, link in bio.
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 27d
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation for the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new @prototypepubs.bsky.social book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · 29d
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Submerge yourself in subterranean mirror-worlds with acclaimed Black Country author ANTHONY CARTWRIGHT & his brand-new @thebraag.bsky.social collection of speculative stories NECROSMOLOGIES.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Sep 6
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 We are thrilled to host a visit from American poet SASHA DEBEVEC-MCKENNEY to unravel her intimate, unashamed & hilarious new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social collection JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME.

🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Sep 5
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS

📚 Join translator GEORGIA WALL at the VOCE BOOKS (CLUB) & unravel Italian author SUSANNA BISSOLI’s delicate family portrait STRUCK—the latest book from new publishers @lindeneditions.bsky.social

🎟️ Please book your place via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Sep 4
✍️ JESS SHANNON is a writer from Birmingham & proud graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme. She completed her degree in Literature and Creative Writing in 2020 & her MA in Writing in 2021. Her debut novel ‘Cleaner’ will be published by Bedford Square in August 2025.
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Sep 4
✍️ ANDY HOWLETT is a Birmingham based artist, writer & filmmaker. He shoots, edits & narrates exploratory & playful video essays such as ‘Escarpment’ (2023), commissioned by Solihull Council, & the feature-length ‘Paradise Lost’ (2021).
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Sep 4
✍️ GARETH GAVIN is a writer from Birmingham. ‘Midland: A Novel Out of Time’ (Penned in the Margins, 2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize & ‘Never Was’ (Cipher Press, 2023) was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Sep 4
✍️ JOEL BLACKLEDGE is a writer, researcher, & filmmaker from Birmingham. His short fiction has been published by Floodgate Press (‘Digbeth Stories’), Oslo Triennale (‘Gross Ideas’), & BBC Radio (Future History Archive).
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Sep 4
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT KILDER BAR

🎤 Welcome back @storiebrum.bsky.social for a new season of experiments in prose & a line-up of exceptional Birmingham writers inc. JOEL BLACKLEDGE, GARETH GAVIN, ANDY HOWLETT & JESS SHANNON

🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Sep 3
🗣️ 📚 🍂 AUTUMN BEGINS AT VOCE BOOKS

🗓️ 12pm-6pm, Weds-Fri; 11pm-6pm, Sat; & 11am-4pm, Sun
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Aug 26
🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL 12PM ON WEDNESDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Aug 2
🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, JULY 2025
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Jul 23
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Voce Books @vocebooks.bsky.social · Jul 23
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