🎤 Join us for the final event of our third season & hear work from from: JOSH ALLEN, ANIA BAS, TAYLOR BURNS, SASHA BUTLER, CURTIS EBANKS FALCONER, ALAN KANE FRASER, CLIVE JUDD, TOM MAGUIRE, KATE MASCARENHAS & BETH PREECE 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️♦️ Our Spring edition of STORIE flew by in a blink last week with GRACE BEARD, LAURA BLAKE, JAKE TRELEASE & BEN WADDINGTON joining our ever-expanding & illustrious list of alumni. Incredible work from four incredible writers! 📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🎤 This Thursday: STORIE returns for Spring with new prose works from GRACE BEARD, LAURA BLAKE, JAKE TRELEASE & BEN WADDINGTON 🎟️ Last few tickets available at the link in bio. We want 🫵 there!

🎤 Head to Kilder Bar for our Springtime STORIE session & hear new work from another scintillating line-up of writers including GRACE BEARD, LAURA BLAKE, JAKE TRELEASE, & BEN WADDINGTON. 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️♦️ We returned to the mic last week as STORIE began it's 2026 slate with four incredible new works from ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL each story invisibly linked to each other by ghosts, folklore, & personal & cultural histories. Another great night!

🎤 Few weeks left until our first STORIE of 2026, featuring another full West Midlands based line-up including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL. 🎟️ Tickets are currently SOLD OUT, but please check the Eventbrite (link in bio) for any returns

🗣️♦️ Astonishing work from our December line-up POLLY BARTON, TARIQ GODDARD, KESOMI & SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON that had our audience held throughout. The variations, the detours, the laughs & the gut-punches. Exactly what we set STORIE up for. Bring on 2026! 📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🎤 Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 & another eclectic night of experiments in prose featuring a full line-up of West Midlands-based writers including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL. 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🎤 NEXT WEEK: We’ll be back at our @Kilder_Bar home with👇 unbelievable line-up. POLLY BARTON, TARIQ GODDARD, KESOMI, SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON The end of year gift on everyone’s list… 🎟️ SOLD OUT: Keep eyes on our Eventbrite page, link in bio, for returned tickets

🎤 Join an electric line-up featuring author & translator POLLY BARTON, novelist TARIQ GODDARD, writer & performance artist SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON & Birmingham-based spoken word artist KESOMI for the final STORIE of 2025! 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️♦️ Wow! From our first ever open subs call, five working-class writers stepped up to the mic to perform their own EXPERIMENTS IN WORKING-CLASS PROSE as part of this year's Birmingham Literature Festival. And what a night it was...?! Thank you to everyone who joined us 🙏 📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🎤 Announcing the full line up for EXPERIMENTS IN WORKING CLASS PROSE: five writers selected from our first ever open submissions call. ✍️ UTTARAN DAS GUPTA, SOPHIE HUCKFIELD, SAM HUNT, JULIE IRIGARAY & SHARONA KENWRICK 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️♦️ Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening STORIE event of season three & to our stunning all Birmingham line-up JOEL BLACKLEDGE, GARETH GAVIN, ANDY HOWLETT & JESS SHANNON! 📸 Here's some snaps from the night courtesy of our resident photograher Rebekah Lyndon

🗣️♦️ We are absolutely thrilled to announce that STORIE has been awarded an Arts Council England Lottery Fund grant to support our work until June 2026! 🙏 Thank you @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for supporting experimental prose writing & writers in the West Midlands.

🎤 We are delighted to welcome you to STORIE for a new season of experiments in prose feat. another line-up of exceptional writers from Birmingham inc. JOEL BLACKLEDGE, GARETH GAVIN, ANDY HOWLETT & JESS SHANNON. 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio