This event will be held at the Maddermarket in Norwich [Entrance St John’s Alley NR2 1DR]. Doors will be open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. We are suggesting a donation of minimum £3 for those who attend. The venue includes a bar It will be possible to sign up for an Open Mic slot on the door.
Originally from Hong Kong and now based in the UK, Jennifer Wong is the author of Light Year (Nine Arches Press, 2026) 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press, 2020) and pamphlets including time difference (Verve, 2024). She has a PhD in creative writing from Oxford Brookes University. Her poems and stories have been published in Sinetheta, Under the Radar, Poetry London, Tupelo Quarterly, Signal House Edition and Wasafiri and other anthologies. She is the author of Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2023). She is also a co-editor of State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation (Outspoken Press, 2023) and Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve, 2023). She teaches at institutions including Poetry School and Arvon, and will be a visiting lecturer at University of Hong Kong for Spring 2026. Currently, she is also editing Woman, Mapped, a brand new anthology on women’s poetry in the UK from Rebecca Swift Foundation, forthcoming from Fly on the Wall Press in mid 2026.
Sue Burge is a freelance tutor and editor based in North Norfolk. She is also a film-studies tutor with a penchant for silent film, road movies and David Lynch. Her poems have been published in a wide range of journals and feature in themed anthologies on Science Fiction, modern Gothic, illness, Britishness, endangered birds, WW1, and Laurel and Hardy. Her first pamphlet, Lumiere (2018 Hedgehog Poetry Press) explores Paris’s cinematic and literary legacy; her second pamphlet The Saltwater Diaries (Hedgehop Poetry Press) was published in 2020. She has three collections out with Live Canon: In the Kingdom of Shadows, Confetti Dancers, and The Artificial Parisienne. The latter examines her edgy on-going relationships with Paris. Her eco-angst collection, watch it slowly fade, was published by Yaffle Press in July 2025.