Monday, July 22, 2024

Next Buzzwords Sunday September 8th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday September 8th

 

 Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Frank McMahon 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Frank McMahon

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Frank McMahon lives in Cirencester and is a member of Somewhere Else Writers Group and Wordbrew.

His third book of poems, The Light Will Always Return, was published in April 2024.He has also been published in various journals in print and on-line. Last year he read at the Cheltenham Poetry and Literature Festivals.

He won the GWN prize in 2022 and is a runner up in this year’s competition.. In June 2023, with others he set up Writers in the Library in Cirencester and it is going strong. Later that year he worked with two Primary Schools who took part in the national Poetry Together Initiative. Both schools were shortlisted out of 400 and each won £250 for their school library.

He worked as a volunteer to support the 2024 Cheltenham Poetry Festival.