Next Buzzwords, Sunday May 6th
7pm - workshop led by Jane Commane and Tania Hershman
8pm - open mic and guest readings
Guest Poets: Jane Commane and Tania Hershman
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Waged £5, unwaged £3
Jane Commane
is a poet, editor and publisher. Her first full length collection,
Assembly Lines, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018. In 2016, she was
chosen to join Writing West Midlands’ Room 204 writer development
programme. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, for a decade she
also worked in museums and archives. Jane is editor at Nine Arches
Press, co-editor of Under the Radar magazine, and is co-author, with Jo
Bell, of How to Be a Poet, a creative writing handbook (Nine Arches
Press). In 2017 she was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship.
Tania Hershman's debut
poetry collection,
Terms & Conditions, was published by Nine Arches
Press in July 2017 and her third short story collection,
Some Of Us Glow
More
Than Others, by Unthank Books.
Tania is also
the author of a poetry chapbook,
Nothing Here Is Wild, Everything Is
Open, and two short story collections,
My Mother Was An Upright Piano,
and
The White Road and Other Stories, and co-author of
Writing
Short Stories: A Writers' & Artists' Companion (Bloomsbury,
2014). Tania
is
curator of short story hub ShortStops (
www.shortstops.info),
celebrating short story activity across the UK & Ireland, and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle
physics. Hear her read her work on
https://soundcloud.com/taniahe rshman and find out more here:
www.taniahershman.com
