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An evening of poetry curated by Goldsmiths, University of London Writers’ Centre, with:
▶ Caleb Femi
▶ Rebecca Tamás
▶ Belinda Zhawi
▶ Will Cox
▶ Jarred McGinnis
▶ Jen Calleja
▶ Alanna McArdle
▶ Megan Nolan
▶ Serena Braida
▶ Christopher Whitfield
Venue information: In order to attend you must be a member or a guest of a member. Membership costs £2 for a year and takes 48 hours to take effect. You can sign up and pay online or at the space. If someone comes to a gig and is not signed up, they can sign in as a guest. Members are responsible for their guests during the event. http://diyspaceforlondon.org/join/
CALEB FEMI is a poet, English teacher and a member of the SXWKS collective. Caleb is also the winner of the Roundhouse Poetry Slam 2015. Caleb has led poetry workshops in schools in East and North London. As well as poetry, Caleb is also a filmmaker with his inaugural documentary ‘What Did Love Taste Like In The 70s?’ released in August 2015. He tweets @calebfemi5
REBECCA TÁMAS was born in London and lives in Norwich, where she is studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at University of East Anglia (UEA). Her first poetry pamphlet, The Ophelia Letters, was published by Salt Publishing in 2013, and she has most recently been published in The White Review and Best British Poetry 2015. She is currently at work on a full length collection, which centres on witchcraft, difference, female alterity and strangeness. She tweets @RebTamas
BELINDA ZHAWI is a writer and educator. Her work focuses on her memories of living in rural and urban Zimbabwe whilst exploring the role this has played in shaping the narrative of her life thus far. She’s performed at Africa Writes, Bestival and Barbican Centre among others. Her work has appeared in Liminal Animals and Casagrande: Rain Of Poems. In 2013 she featured as one of Channel 4's Random Acts. She co-founded Born::Free and is a 2015/16 London Laureate. She tweets @MamoyoBornFree
WILL COX is from Portland, Oregon but lives in Paris, France. He is one of the co-editors of the Belleville Park Pages and has read his writing in the UK, France, Italy and Lithuania. He tweets @willjmcox
JARRED MCGINNIS is one of the guys behind The Special Relationship and its 4-day live reading of Moby-Dick at the Southbank in 2015. His short fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, and appeared in journals in the UK, Canada, USA and Ireland. In addition to writing fiction, he holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He is http://wickedtomocktheafflicted.com/, tweets @JarredMcGinnis
JEN CALLEJA is a writer, literary translator from German and musician. Her first collection of poetry, Serious Justice, is published by Test Centre. She is editor of Verfreundungseffekt, acting editor of New Books in German, translator in residence at the austrian cultural forum london and columnist on literature in translation for Quietus Books. Her latest book translation is Nicotine by Gregor Hens, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. She plays in Sauna Youth, Feature and Monotony. She tweets @niewview
ALANNA MCARDLE is a writer and musician based in London. She tweets @alannamcardle_
MEGAN NOLAN is a writer based in London. Her work has been published widely online and in print including The Guardian and i-D. She has read and performed in a variety of settings including "Disobedient Children" curated by the artist Dorine van Meel at Kunstraum, Hoxton, and in the Irish Museum of Modern Art at a live recording of the curator Morgan Quaintance's radio show STUDIO VISIT. In March a new performance event she has curated will be presented at Cubitt. She is currently writing her first novel. She tweets @mmegannnolan
SERENA BRAIDA is a bilingual writer and performer. She is featured in Italian literary nonfiction anthology Quello che hai amato (UTET 2015). She is a jazz vocalist and chorister and currently sings alto in the The Queensgate Singers. INFANTA is her forthcoming sung poetry project. She tweets @serenabraida
CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD is an author of poetry and science fiction. He also believes that 2016 is the year of "realising stuff", and fully intends to. He is both on Instagram and Twitter @whutfield
▶ Caleb Femi
▶ Rebecca Tamás
▶ Belinda Zhawi
▶ Will Cox
▶ Jarred McGinnis
▶ Jen Calleja
▶ Alanna McArdle
▶ Megan Nolan
▶ Serena Braida
▶ Christopher Whitfield
Venue information: In order to attend you must be a member or a guest of a member. Membership costs £2 for a year and takes 48 hours to take effect. You can sign up and pay online or at the space. If someone comes to a gig and is not signed up, they can sign in as a guest. Members are responsible for their guests during the event. http://diyspaceforlondon.org/join/
CALEB FEMI is a poet, English teacher and a member of the SXWKS collective. Caleb is also the winner of the Roundhouse Poetry Slam 2015. Caleb has led poetry workshops in schools in East and North London. As well as poetry, Caleb is also a filmmaker with his inaugural documentary ‘What Did Love Taste Like In The 70s?’ released in August 2015. He tweets @calebfemi5
REBECCA TÁMAS was born in London and lives in Norwich, where she is studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at University of East Anglia (UEA). Her first poetry pamphlet, The Ophelia Letters, was published by Salt Publishing in 2013, and she has most recently been published in The White Review and Best British Poetry 2015. She is currently at work on a full length collection, which centres on witchcraft, difference, female alterity and strangeness. She tweets @RebTamas
BELINDA ZHAWI is a writer and educator. Her work focuses on her memories of living in rural and urban Zimbabwe whilst exploring the role this has played in shaping the narrative of her life thus far. She’s performed at Africa Writes, Bestival and Barbican Centre among others. Her work has appeared in Liminal Animals and Casagrande: Rain Of Poems. In 2013 she featured as one of Channel 4's Random Acts. She co-founded Born::Free and is a 2015/16 London Laureate. She tweets @MamoyoBornFree
WILL COX is from Portland, Oregon but lives in Paris, France. He is one of the co-editors of the Belleville Park Pages and has read his writing in the UK, France, Italy and Lithuania. He tweets @willjmcox
JARRED MCGINNIS is one of the guys behind The Special Relationship and its 4-day live reading of Moby-Dick at the Southbank in 2015. His short fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, and appeared in journals in the UK, Canada, USA and Ireland. In addition to writing fiction, he holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He is http://wickedtomocktheafflicted.com/, tweets @JarredMcGinnis
JEN CALLEJA is a writer, literary translator from German and musician. Her first collection of poetry, Serious Justice, is published by Test Centre. She is editor of Verfreundungseffekt, acting editor of New Books in German, translator in residence at the austrian cultural forum london and columnist on literature in translation for Quietus Books. Her latest book translation is Nicotine by Gregor Hens, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. She plays in Sauna Youth, Feature and Monotony. She tweets @niewview
ALANNA MCARDLE is a writer and musician based in London. She tweets @alannamcardle_
MEGAN NOLAN is a writer based in London. Her work has been published widely online and in print including The Guardian and i-D. She has read and performed in a variety of settings including "Disobedient Children" curated by the artist Dorine van Meel at Kunstraum, Hoxton, and in the Irish Museum of Modern Art at a live recording of the curator Morgan Quaintance's radio show STUDIO VISIT. In March a new performance event she has curated will be presented at Cubitt. She is currently writing her first novel. She tweets @mmegannnolan
SERENA BRAIDA is a bilingual writer and performer. She is featured in Italian literary nonfiction anthology Quello che hai amato (UTET 2015). She is a jazz vocalist and chorister and currently sings alto in the The Queensgate Singers. INFANTA is her forthcoming sung poetry project. She tweets @serenabraida
CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD is an author of poetry and science fiction. He also believes that 2016 is the year of "realising stuff", and fully intends to. He is both on Instagram and Twitter @whutfield
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