🎤 Few weeks left until our first STORIE of 2026, featuring another full West Midlands based line-up including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL.

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🗣️♦️ Astonishing work from our December line-up POLLY BARTON, TARIQ GODDARD, KESOMI & SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON that had our audience held throughout. The variations, the detours, the laughs & the gut-punches. Exactly what we set STORIE up for. Bring on 2026!

📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🎤 Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 & another eclectic night of experiments in prose featuring a full line-up of West Midlands-based writers including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL.

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🎤 NEXT WEEK: We’ll be back at our @Kilder_Bar home with👇 unbelievable line-up.

POLLY BARTON, TARIQ GODDARD, KESOMI, SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON

The end of year gift on everyone’s list…

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🎤 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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