16th June 2025: Katrina Naomi and Naoise Gale

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 7.30 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...

11th January 2027 Zoom Open Mic Night

This event will take place on Zoom. It will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets OR an Open Mic slot through the  Eventbrite link which will appear on our Home Page about a week before the event and this month we will be celebrating you – our Café Writer’s...

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Sometimes I love water more than people I love fat raindrops pocking the pavements like falling gooseberries some days I can’t stop saying petrichor its three syllables so mysteriously right surely Dior was thinking of sunlight on the Seine as he rippled metres of...

10th July 2023 Jane Burn and Rachael Clyne

This event will begin at 7.30pm, it will take place on Zoom. Please book tickets and an Open Mic slot through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our Home Page ten days before the date. Jane Burn is a working class, pansexual, autistic person, poet, artist,...

Winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Daljit Nagra. Daljit writes: The Café Writers Competition, from its title implies a local manner, yet the entries were truly international. I loved judging this...