Word Central hosted by Tony Curry. Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word Presented by Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries.

Book your open mic slot from noon on Tuesday 16th July via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk
N.B. Open mic slots are 3 minutes per performer – it is essential that you stay within this timeframe.
Performance slots are allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis from the stated booking time. If they are already filled you will be offered a place on the reserve list.

Our special guest for July is Dave Morgan, a writer, community educator and arts organiser in the North-West of England. He co-founded the performance poetry organisation Write Out Loud, and curates events for the Bolton-based arts collective Live from Worktown. His work has been published internationally, and even translated into Tamil for the South Asian journal Thalam Quarterly. Dave is co-author of the 1975 publication China: an integrated study, and has two poetry collections with Flapjack Press – Chuang Tse’s Caterpillar and On Not Being Observed, which was published earlier this year.