Curtain up and a full house for joelle taylor’s beautiful staged reading of her novel ‘The Night Alphabet’ directed and hosted by Neil Bartlett at Brighton Festival

📖🎧Listen again to Kathy Caton MBE's chat with joelle taylor about her mesmerising live reading of debut novel, The Night Alphabet: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…
🎟️Final tickets available! brightonfestival.org/whats-on/XKL-t…
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London, my last ever Butch Ado About Nothing show is filling up quick now. Grab yours:

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The Night Alphabet after party will be here on Sat eve! Hope to see you there Our Roots: DREAMLAND | Club Night | Brighton Festival ⁦Brighton Fringe⁩ brightonfestival.org/whats-on/XO5-o…

The staged reading live show may finish at the end of May but I’ll be continuing the work of embodying the novel at a few festivals over the summer, including this gorgeous one in Exeter @exeterhouse for #QuayWords

This Friday & Sat

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Heading home after a great night Out-Spoken (also on BBC Radio 4 tonight✨) with Rachael Allen, Imtiaz Dharker, Nik Sheva, Karim Lamar, Salena Godden, Kara Marin, and hosted by joelle taylor

Calling the chin-waggers, the chortlers, the incurably curious! 📚🧠

Cast your gaze upon your Talking Shop line-up, with TheMaryChain, who’ll be in conversation to chat brotherly strife, being eternal outsiders and extreme shyness in their new memoir.

Broadcasting

Really enjoyed this interview about the thinking & processing behind The Night Alphabet with Bosla Arts

The final event of The Night Alphabet staged reading tour will be in Liverpool next week, as a part of the Writing on the Wall Come through!

We are thrilled to reveal our workshops for Saluting the New Daughters of Africa!

Tolu Agbelusi Patience Agbabi & Yassmin Abdel-Magied all bring some phenomenal workshops to the day.

This event is in partnership with Africa Writes

📅 Fri 7 June
📍 St Bride Foundation
🔗 bit.ly/3UYD3A7

📖🎭 Award-winning poet joelle taylor performs a staged reading of her stunning debut novel #TheNightAlphabet

Plus post-show conversations with Neil Bartlett and Paul Burston 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡️🏳️‍🌈, author & host of LGBTQ+ literary salon #Polari

Book now👉 bit.ly/3WhKumN

We are very proud to announce Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture edited by Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller.

Today, as Palestinian heritage is being destroyed, those that survive preserve their culture & history through literature, music, stories & memories

Now only a few remaining spaces for June’s Poetry Room. A weekly online course which focuses on generating new poems, close-readings and group feedback. anthonyanaxagorou.com/the-poetry-room

Off to London today to record an edition of our 60-minute BBC Radio 4 The Verb performance specials at Outspoken presented by joelle taylor !

This is wild, really appreciated. It’s good to see the work of The Feminist Bookshop and Feminist Book Fair highlighting the books that consider the status of women globally.

Wonderful quote on why it's so important to have diverse voices in literature and why awards like ours are vital from past judge @jtaylortrash 💛

Just 4 days left to submit to our 2024 Writers' Award 🏆
Don't leave it too late! bit.ly/CFWA2024