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Word Soup is our monthly live literature night!

They Eat Culture and the Lancashire Writing Hub are pleased to announce the forthcoming Word Soup will be a “words on screen” special, and as well as a fantastic line-up of Lancashire writing talent we will be showing three films of “moving poetry” from the Version Film Festival, run by Manchester’s Comma Press.

The line-up on the night will be headlined by performance poet Mark Mace Smith, and includes Philip “Pip the Poet” Burton, novelist Sian Cummins, and poet Norman Hadley. There will be a fabulous music set from Bill Orrick, and a film screening of three short “moving poetry” films featuring the poetry of Gaia Holmes, Julian Daniel, and John Cooper Clarke.

There will, of course, also be the usual open mic slot where local writing talent can sign up for their 3 minutes of fame – so an all round fantastic night!

Word Soup “words on screen” will be on Tuesday 21st September at 8pm at The Continental, South Meadow Lane, Preston PR1 8JP. It’s £3 on the door.

For more information contact Jane at writing@theyeatculture.org or phone 01772 499207 during office hours. Check out our website www.lancashirewritinghub.co.uk .

Further information

Mark Mace Smith
Mark Mace Smith (aka Thud Dub) is a poet, artist, photographer and short film maker, and a poetry slam champion – he’s won competitions across the country, from Brixton to Barrow, including the Glastonbury Festival and on BBC Radio 4. He also works on the Streetspeak project at Preston North End football club.
http://www.streetspeak.org.uk/about/our-poets/mark-mace-smith/

Philip Burton
Philip Burton is a 2005 Lancaster Litfest winner. In 1998 he was short–listed for The Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition, and for the Thetford and Wymondham Annual Poetry Competition in 1999. Philip Burton is known to children as “Pip The Poet”. Twelve of his poems for children have been published in major anthologies in the last few years. Steve Rudd, Managing director of The Kings England Press, (publisher of the phenomenally successful Gez Walsh) said of the collection The Treasure Shop, “..…cries out for a national publisher.” Many of his poems have been illustrated by Steve Hutton. He was hailed by Rosie Rogosie as “a new voice come to Manchester”, and appeared in 2000 on the same bill as Adrian Mitchell at The Burnley Arts Festival 2000. http://www.philipburton.net

Norman Hadley
Norman Hadley is a Garstang poet, author, and mathematician who has written novels and poems, and his third collection of poems, entitled “A Whoop Above The Dust” is published on 14th September.
http://www.normanhadley.com/

Sian Cummins
Sian Cummins is a novelist based in Manchester who has completed her first novel, Fluids, and is currently working on her second novel The Elastica Principle. http://siancummins.wordpress.com/

Version Film Festival
The Version Film Festival is a new project which celebrates the transformation from page to screen. It is run by Comma Press in Manchester, and is a platform for new films but also a unique adaptation-only commissioning project. It showcases poetry-films by directors from across the country (commissioned in conjunction with Literature Northwest), as well as a host of new short story films including the Film4-funded ‘Five Miles Out’. Masterclasses and workshops offer budding filmmakers hands-on advice on the process of transforming textual narratives into film, whilst networking sessions enable crews to get together for future projects and put filmmakers in contact with writers. http://www.versionfestival.co.uk/

Comma Press
Comma Press is a not-for-profit publishing initiative dedicated to promoting new fiction and poetry, with an emphasis on the short story. It is committed to a spirit of risk-taking and challenging publishing, free of the commercial pressures on mainstream houses. http://www.commapress.co.uk