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 around days before the date.
Mark Connors is a widely published poet from Leeds. His debut, Life is a Long Song was published by OWF Press in 2015. Nothing is Meant to be Broken was published by Stairwell Books in 2017. Optics was published by Yaffle Press in 2019. After was published by Yaffle Press in 2021. His novels, Stickleback (2016), and Tom Tit and the Maniacs (2018), were published by Armley Press. He is currently working on his third novel and a hybrid book of memoir, travel writing, short fiction and poetry. He is a managing editor and co-founder of Yaffle Press and Yaffle’s Nest.
Gill Connors is from North Yorkshire where she lives and works. Her pamphlet ‘Uninvited Guests’ was published by Indigo Dreams in 2017 and her two collections, ‘Tadaima’ and ‘A Small Goodbye at Dawn’ were published by Yaffle in 2019 and 2022. Gill is working on a third collection which will be the result of her PhD, on the subject of the links and parallels between sixteenth century and twenty-first century women. She is a managing editor of Yaffle and Yaffle’s Nest.