9th September – Mona Arshi and Kostya Tsolákis

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9th September – Mona Arshi (headliner) Kostya Tsolákis (support) Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. She has also...

14th October – Mary Jean Chan and Will Harris

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14th October – Joint headline Mary Jean Chan and Will Harris   Mary Jean Chan was born and raised in Hong Kong, and studied at the universities of Oxford and Royal Holloway. Her debut collection Flèche is a Poetry Society Recommendation, and was recently...

9th December – Chrissy Williams and Kathy Pimlott

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9th December – Chrissy Williams (headiner)   Kathy Pimlott (support) Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor living in London. She edits the online poetry journal PERVERSE. Her first book-length collection BEAR was published by Bloodaxe in 2017. Poetry...

9th March 2020 – Amanthi Harris and S.A. Harris

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9th March – Amanthi Harris (headliner)   S.A. Harris (support) Amanthi Harris was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and has degrees in Law and Chemistry from Bristol University. Her novel BEAUTIFUL PLACE is...

8th July – Emma Healey, Andrew McDonnell

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Emma Healey grew up in London and is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Elizabeth is Missing, was published to critical acclaim in 2014, sold over a million copies, and won the Costa First Novel Award. Her...