When? Every second Wednesday of the month.
Where? Usually we are based at our longtime home, The Poetry Cafe, but for the next six months, while the PC is undergoing renovations, we’ll be based at The Sun Pub: 21 Drury Lane (on the corner of Betterton Street so only a few yards from the Poetry Café), London WC2B 5RH
Time? 8.00 p.m. – £6.00 – £5.00 concessions With two brilliant features every month, and a warm atmosphere, why not come and sign up for the open mic session? Who are you likely to see? Aoife Mannix and Malika Booker, Editor of Sable Magazine Kadijah George-Sesay, novelist Adrienne Dines, and broadcaster/singer Jumoke Fashola, Sally Blackmore, Katrina Naomi, Izzy White and many more.

This is Loose Muse’s twelfth year and we’re always looking for ways to open the events up to new artists and increase our reach. So if you’re a female writer, songwriter, artist, poet, short story or flash fiction performer, please come along – your’e welcome.

In the past, we’ve commissioned four new pieces of work a year, putting together a series of highly regarded anthologies. Submissions are closed at the moment, but we hope to open them again in the very near future.

We’ve got plenty of events to look forward to this year…

LATEST EVENT

LOOSE MUSE – London’s Premiere Women’s Writers Night

Hi gang,

Spent a very pleasant day at the Chelsea Physic Garden last week – it always amazes me how much better I feel after I’ve spent a few hours among green and growing things, and the bus ride through Chelsea was really lovely as a lot of the shops had created amazing ‘floral sculptures’ which were just gorgeous. And June’s Loose Muse promises to be equally amazing, as we have a novelist with her debut novel, an award-winning poet/playwright & a Special Guest all to inspire us with powerful words.

Wednesday 13 June

The Sun Pub: 21 Drury Lane (on the corner of Betterton Street so only a few yards from the Poetry Café), London WC2B 5RH
8.00 p.m. – £6.00 – £5.00 concessions. Features this month are:

Claire Booker

Claire Bookeris both a poet and a playwright, whose debut pamphlet ‘Later There Will Be Postcards’ was published by Green Bottle Press last year. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including Magma and The Spectator, and she was recently commended in the Poetry Society’s Anne Born Prize, as well as being a member of Poetry Art Exchange, a collective of poets from the UK and Romania. Tonight she will read some of her poetry and also lead performances of ‘Sperm Vampire’ and her 5-minute place ‘Meat’ (including Harry Boyd and Susan Hodgets).

S.V. Berlin

S.V. Berlin was born and raised in London, and has worked as a copywriter, facilitator, speechwriter and wilderness Search-and-Rescue professional. She now lives in Manhattan. Tonight she will be reading from her debut novel ‘The Favourite’ published by myriad editions, described as ‘an utterly immersive novel full of insightful and wickedly comic observations of family members behaving badly in stressful situations – of sibling rivalries, and a grieving process that takes time to unfold. It is about the dark heart of the family, and the secrets we keep’.

Special Guest – Naomi Woddis – poet, blogger and photographer, sharing some of her new poetry with us.

Click here to see what our Loose Muse Winchester event is up to!

So come share the passion, share the joy!

Agnes Meadows

Host & Coordinator – Loose Muse Women’s Writers Night

E: agnespoet@googlemail.com M: 07789-901-667 www.loose-muse.com