by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2015 | recent events
Born in London in 1971, Adam Horovitz moved with his parents to Stroud, Gloucestershire the same year. He has been active as a poet since the 1990s but has been writing since childhood. He released his first pamphlet, Next Year in Jerusalem, in 2004 and a...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 10, 2015 | recent events
. . . .Both pamphlets can now be purchased from the Ink Sweat & Tears shop: http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?page_id=5711 This event is the pamphlet launch for the joint winners, Jay Bernard and Jonathan Morley, of the 2014 Cafe Writers Commission held...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | recent events
Holly Hopkins lives and works in London. Her debut pamphlet, Soon Every House Will Have One, won the 2014 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011. Holly is an assistant...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | recent events
Julian Stannard is the author of Rina’s War (Peterloo, 2001), The Red Zone (Peterloo, 2007), The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (Salmon, 2011) and The Street of Perfect Love (Worple, 2014). A new book – Hotel Magnificent – is...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | recent events
Jon McGregor writes novels and short stories. His recent books include a short story collection, This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You, and his third novel, Even the Dogs, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literature Award in 2012. He is...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | recent events
Rebecca Goss grew up in Suffolk. She returned to live in the county in 2013, after living in Liverpool for twenty years. Her first collection The Anatomy of Structures was published by Flambard Press in 2010. Her second collection, Her Birth ...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | recent events
Kim Moore’s first collection ‘The Art of Falling’ is published by Seren. Her first pamphlet ‘If We Could Speak Like Wolves’ was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and was shortlisted for a Michael Marks...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 14, 2015 | recent events
Ira Lightman plays with words, the look of them, the sound of them, the dictionary meaning of them, the way that the English language works in comparison with other languages. He also loves to perform, to jump around, whoop, sing and pull faces while adopting strange...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2014 | recent events
Ron Egatz was born in 1966 and lives in Westchester County, New York. He has worked as a freelance graphic designer, IT consultant and commercials director. He runs poetry and fiction workshops with groups and individuals including occasional teaching at Sarah...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2014 | recent events
Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker, Elvis McGonagall is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park where he scribbles verse whilst drinking scotch, listening to Johnny Cash and throwing heavy objects at his portable telly. Elvis’ sitcom...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2014 | recent events
Andrew Cowan is the author of five novels, including Pig and, most recently, Worthless Men (both published by Sceptre), and the guidebook The Art of Writing Fiction. He is the Director of the Creative Writing programme at UEA. Extract from Your...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2014 | recent events
Unfortunately our scheduled guest reader and judge of the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition, David Morley, is no longer able to attend February’s meeting. However, we have a wealth of competition winning and commended poets in the building and we will have the...
