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.
Cat Woodward‘s full-length collection, Strange Shape, was published by Gatehouse in 2024. Her pamphlet, Sueño del Alma, will be published by Broken Sleep Books in 2025. Cat holds a PhD in lyric poetics from the University of East Anglia. In 2018 she won the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and received a Society of Authors grant. Cat mentors and teaches Creative Writing. Learn more about Cat‘s work and sign up to her newsletter at www.catwoodward.com.
Leah Larwood is an award-winning poet, a freelance writer and a gestalt psychotherapist in the advanced stages of training. She has an MA in creative writing and has been widely published by a number of literary magazines. Many of her poems have either won or been placed in prestigious poetry competitions. Since adolescence she has been a lucid dreamer and this nocturnal pursuit has inspired many of her poems. For her debut collection Oneironaut, she used dream incubation techniques, or else lucid dreams, to develop this metaphysical and cyclical book of poetry that starts by entering the hypnogogic (first stage of sleep) before diving into vivid dreams, nightmares, insomnia and lucid dreams. After a spell of nocturnal shadow work, the poems wake via the hypnopompic state (final phase of sleep) before surfacing in the ‘fertile void’ of a new day.
She lives in Norfolk. Find out more here: www.leahlarwood.co.uk
Daryl Fraser’s debut novel, Silver Harvest, was published by Story Machine in 2024. His work is a historical novel and family saga set in Lowestoft between826 and 1956. Generations of a fictional fishing family, the Chapmans, are placed within the real history of the town. Daryl was born and bred in Lowestoft and now lives in Norwich. He studied literature and history at UEA. After retiring from a publicity and marketing role with Suffolk County Council he attended writing courses at the National Centre for Writers, and joined writers groups. Dramatizing the story of his birthplace became his passion.