Programme
The Café Writers hold events at Louis Marchesi, 17 Tombland, Norwich in the upstairs function room.
Meetings start at 7.30 and admission is £3.00. All are welcome. We host readings from writers from across the globe, presenting a wide range of writers performing a variety of styles – poetry, drama, prose – in an atmosphere that both welcomes new work and invites professional polish. There are opportunities to read from the floor.
09th November 2020 – Jackie Wills and Helen Rye.
This event will be held through Zoom. you can reserve tickets ten days before the date. Please see home page for details. Jackie Wills has spent her working life as a journalist, editor and teacher. She's a lifetime member of the National Union of Journalists, former...
14th December 2020 – Jessica Mookherjee and Sean Wai Keung.
This event will be held through Zoom. You can reserve tickets ten days before the date. Please see Home Page for details.Jessica Mookherjee is a poet of Bengali origin. She grew up in Wales and now lives in Kent. She has been published in many print and...
11th January 2021 – Tom Sastry and Sarah L. Dixon
This event will now be held through ZOOM. You can reserve tickets ten days before the date. Please see Home Page for details.Sarah L Dixon is based in a Huddersfield valley and tours as The Quiet Compere.Sarah has most recently been published in Bloody...
8th February 2021 – Helen Ivory and Competition winners
This event will now be held through ZOOM. You can reserve tickets ten days before the date. Please see Home Page for details.Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is tutor and Course Director for the UEA /...
8th March 2021 – Katrina Naomi and Jinny Fisher
This event will now be held through ZOOM. You can reserve tickets ten days before the date. Please see Home Page for details.Katrina Naomi received an Authors’ Foundation award from the Society of Authors for her third full collection, Wild Persistence,...
Recent events
12th October 2020 – John McCullough and Cai Draper. This event will now be held through ZOOM. See Home Page for details.
John McCullough's first collection of poems, The Frost Fairs won the Polari First Book Prize in 2012 and was a Book of the Year for The Independent as well as a summer read in The Observer. His second, Spacecraft (Penned in the Margins, 2016) was named one of The...
14th September 2020 – Philip Gross and Heidi Williamson. This event will now be held through ZOOM. See Home Page for details.
Philip Gross has published over twenty collections of poetry, including The Water Table, which won the T.S.Eliot Prize 2009, and a new collection, Between The Islands, from Bloodaxe in March, 2020. He received a Cholmondeley Award in 2017, and his science-based...
10th August 2020 – Joelle Taylor and Laura Scott. This event will now be held through ZOOM. See Home Page for details.
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and editor who has recently completed touring Europe, Australia, Brazil and South east Asia with her latest collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She is widely anthologist, the author of three full poetry...