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 ten days before the date.
Ashley Hickson-Lovence is the author of The 392, Your Show, Wild East—overall winner of the East Anglian Book Awards 2024, and a poetry collection Why I am Not a Bus Driver. He has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia and in 2023 was nominated for the Black Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature alongside Bernadine Evaristo and Malorie Blackman.
Dillon Jaxx is a queer, chronically ill writer. Their work explores the aftermath of trauma, illness and addiction as well as the meaning of home, family and identity. Their work has been published in Poetry Wales, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review and The Alchemy Spoon amongst others. Dillon has been placed and commended in numerous competitions and won the Rebecca Swift Writing Prize 2022, the Brotherton prize 2024, the Wolverhampton poetry competition 2024, the Live Canon International Poetry Competition 2025, the Artemisia Arts Prize 2025.