Word Central

Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word

Presented by Flapjack Press & Manchester Libraries

Live Streaming during COVID-19 on Word Central’s Facebook Page

We hope to be back at Manchester Central Library soon

Next event: Thurs 3rd December, 8.00pm

With special guest poet Paul Cookson

Paul Cookson is a 'National Reading Hero' award winner, Poet-in-Residence for The National Football Museum and Everton in the Community, Writer-in-Residence for Sing Together (which involves 125 Lancastrian schools and over 5000 children and 400 teachers) and a National Poetry Day Ambassador. He is also Poet Laureate for Slade. Paul has more than sixty titles to his name and over a million book sales - and with a quarter of a million copies sold alone, the anthology The Works has become a teacher’s 'poetry Bible'. His new collection, Fighting Talk, is available now from Flapjack Press.

You can book your open mic slot from noon on Thurs 26th November via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk

NB Open mic slots are 3 minutes maximum

Performance slots are allocated on a 'first come first served' basis from the stated booking day

If they are already filled you will be offered a space on the reserve list

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