🗣️ 🎄 ☃️ ❄️ VOCE BOOKS IS NOW CLOSED UNTIL THURSDAY 15TH JANUARY 2026

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Join Voce Writer-in-Residence @tayburns.bsky.social for DON'T KILL YOUR DARLINGS: EDITING & MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION—the second in his series of free writer drop-in sessions. 🎟️ Please reserve a space via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 We are delighted to welcome award-winning writer @lukekennard.bsky.social to Voce for a publication day event with @keirangoddard.bsky.social discussing his new off-kilter campus novel BLACK BAG 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚🇮🇹 Vi aspettiamo in Allison Street per il primo VOCE ITALIAN BOOKS (CLUB) del 2026. Parleremo di LA RICREAZIONE È FINITA di DARIO FERRARI pubblicato da SELLERIO. 🎟️ Riservate il vostro posto su Eventbrite, link in bio.

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Celebrate the emergence of a stunning new voice in contemporary poetry as Birmingham-born writer ZAIN RISHI & guests launch NOON—Zain's luminous debut pamphlet of faith & family. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🎤 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

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Join writer KAYLEIGH GARTHWAITE to explore her new book HUNGER INC.: BUILDING SOLIDARITY BEYOND THE FOOD BANK & the work taking place at the heart of the on-going food crisis. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Meet the editors of Birmingham publishers @theemmapress.bsky.social at this writer's drop-in session as their submission window re-opens for new novellas & essay collections. 🎟️ Please reserve your ten-minute timeslot via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Join us for the first VOCE BOOKS (CLUB) of 2026 & discuss the award-winning BEFORE THE ROCKET by LORANNE VELLA, translated from Maltese 🇲🇹 by KAT STORACE & published by PRASPAR PRESS. 🎟️ Please book your place via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ WINTER EVENTS 2026 AT VOCE BOOKS ✍️ Join Voce Writer-in-Residence @tayburns.bsky.social for this long-form workshop, where he'll taking you through the benefits, demerits, history & practitioners ON STYLE. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️📚 We are proud to announce another packed & fully West Midland’s focused event programme for the first months of 2026. 🎟️ For full details & to book/reserve tickets, please visit our Eventbrite page, link in bio.

🗣️ KWAN ANN TAN: THE WAITER 🎤 in conversation with JAMES TREVELYAN 📚 published by THE EMMA PRESS 🗓️ THURSDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2025 📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, NOVEMBER 2025

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚🇮🇹 Vi aspettiamo in Allison Street per l’ultimo VOCE ITALIAN BOOKS (CLUB) del 2025. Parleremo di PIETÀ di ANTONIO GALETTA pubblicato da EINAUDI. 🎟️ Riservate il vostro posto su Eventbrite, link in bio.

🗣️ MORAG ROSE: THE FEMINIST ART OF WALKING 🎤 in conversation with RACHEL SEGAL HAMILTON 📚 published by PLUTO PRESS 🗓️ THURSDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2025 📸 PERI CIMEN

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 We’ve teamed up with our friends @theemmapress.bsky.social to bring you London-based Malaysian author KWAN ANN TAN & her speculative, haunting new novel (with 12 different endings!), THE WAITER. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️📚 We are delighted to announce the VOCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025—a selection of books we feel have best reflected the depth & range of our shelves here in Birmingham over the last twelve months.

🗣️ ALAN BEARD: AFTERNOON DRINKING 🎤 in conversation with WENDY ERSKINE 📚 published by FLOODGATE PRESS 🗓️ THURSDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2025 📸 PERI CIMEN

🗣️📚 WENDY ERSKINE: THE BENEFACTORS - WEDNESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 2025 🎤 in conversation with TAYLOR BURNS 📕 published by SCEPTRE 📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Introducing a special edition of the VOCE BOOKS (CLUB) where we'll be discussing ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, I & II translated from Danish by BARBARA J. HAVELAND, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎟️ Please book your place via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Explore local histories & personal narratives with lecturer & anarcho-flâneuse @thelrm.bsky.social as she navigates us through her new @plutopress.bsky.social book THE FEMINIST ART OF WALKING. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️📚 VOCE IS THREE YEARS OLD! 🙏 A huge thank you to all the customers, writers & publishers who have kept us alive. We wouldn’t be here without you ❤️

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Join Voce Writer-in-Residence @tayburns.bsky.social for BEFORE THE BOOK: PREPARING YOUR WORK FOR SUBMISSION—the first in his series of free writer drop-in sessions. 🎟️ Please reserve a space via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, OCTOBER 2025

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 We are thrilled to be hosting acclaimed writer @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social as she heads to Voce to discuss her daring, multi-perspective debut novel of motherhood, class & money THE BENEFACTORS. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🎤 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

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚🇮🇹 Vi aspettiamo in Allison Street per l’ultimo VOCE ITALIAN BOOKS (CLUB) del 2025. Parleremo di PIETÀ di ANTONIO GALETTA pubblicato da EINAUDI. 🎟️ Riservate il vostro posto su Eventbrite, link in bio.

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 We’ve teamed up with our friends @theemmapress.bsky.social to bring you London-based Malaysian author KWAN ANN TAN & her speculative, haunting new novel (with 12 different endings!), THE WAITER. 🎟️ Please book 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

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Introducing a special edition of the VOCE BOOKS (CLUB) where we'll be discussing ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, I & II translated from Danish by BARBARA J. HAVELAND, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎟️ Please book your place via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️📚 JEN CALLEJA: FAIR - THURSDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2025 🎤 in conversation with MARIA LOMMUNO JUDD, published by PROTOTYPE 📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Explore local histories & personal narratives with lecturer & anarcho-flâneuse @thelrm.bsky.social as she navigates us through her new @plutopress.bsky.social book THE FEMINIST ART OF WALKING 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️📚 ANTHONY CARTWRIGHT: NECROSMOLOGIES - THURSDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2025 🎤 in conversation with TAYLOR BURNS, published by THE BRAAG 📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Join Voce Writer-in-Residence @tayburns.bsky.social for BEFORE THE BOOK: PREPARING YOUR WORK FOR SUBMISSION—the first in his series of free writer drop-in sessions. 🎟️ Please reserve a space via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Hear from a true specialist of short-form fiction as Birmingham-based writer @alanbeard.bsky.social joins WENDY ERSKINE to launch his new @floodgatepress.bsky.social collection AFTERNOON DRINKING. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 We are thrilled to be hosting acclaimed writer WENDY ERSKINE as she heads to Voce to discuss her daring, multi-perspective debut novel of motherhood, class & money THE BENEFACTORS. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS WILL BE CLOSED ON SUNDAY 5TH OCTOBER FOR BIRMINGHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL PREP 🎟️ For this year's full festival line-up & to book your tickets, head to the link in our bio

🗣️📚 SASHA DEBEVEC-MCKENNEY: JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME - WEDNESDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER 2025 🎤 in conversation with LUKE KENNARD, published by FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS 📸 REBEKAH LYNDON

🗣️📚 VOCE BOOKS OF THE MONTH, SEPTEMBER 2025

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Excited to welcome @jencalleja.bsky.social back to Voce with an invitation to join the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣✒️ We are delighted to announce the appointment of Birmingham writer & @storiebrum.bsky.social co-curator TAYLOR BURNS as the inaugural VOCE BOOKS WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE. 🎟️ For more info & to book for Taylor’s writer drop-in sessions & workshop, please follow the link to Eventbrite in bio

🎤 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

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 We are thrilled to host a visit from American poet SASHA DEBEVEC-MCKENNEY to unravel her intimate, unashamed & hilarious new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social collection JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️♦️ 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.

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚🇮🇹 Il VOCE ITALIAN BOOKS (CLUB) torna in autunno con un libro scritto da una delle nostre autrici italiane preferite: TUTTI I NOSTRI IERI di Natalia Ginzburg, pubblicato da EINAUDI. 🎟️ Riservate il vostro posto su Eventbrite, link in bio.

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation for the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new @prototypepubs.bsky.social book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Submerge yourself in subterranean mirror-worlds with acclaimed Black Country author ANTHONY CARTWRIGHT & his brand-new @thebraag.bsky.social collection of speculative stories NECROSMOLOGIES. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 We are thrilled to host a visit from American poet SASHA DEBEVEC-MCKENNEY to unravel her intimate, unashamed & hilarious new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social collection JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Join translator GEORGIA WALL at the VOCE BOOKS (CLUB) & unravel Italian author SUSANNA BISSOLI’s delicate family portrait STRUCK—the latest book from new publishers @lindeneditions.bsky.social 🎟️ Please book your place via Eventbrite, link in bio

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT KILDER BAR 🎤 Welcome back @storiebrum.bsky.social for a new season of experiments in prose & a line-up of exceptional Birmingham writers inc. JOEL BLACKLEDGE, GARETH GAVIN, ANDY HOWLETT & JESS SHANNON 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio