We're BACK for a night of queer poetry and community! Join us for our first FLINTA* Poetry Night at Goldie Saloon on 26 February 2025 @ 19:30 withticket proceeds donated to The Common Press' fundraiser.
We'll have guest readings from award-winning and prize-commended queer poets, whose work has featured across a range of independent journals and publishers:
🎤 Helen Bowell is a poet, producer and editor. Her debut pamphlet The Barman (Bad Betty Press, 2022) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her poems, reviews and translations have been published in bath magg, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and elsewhere. Helen ran Bi+ Lines, a project for bi+ poets, and edited the first anthology of bi+ poets (fourteen poems, 2023).
🎤 Maureen Onwunali is a Dublin-born Nigerian published poet and a two time national slam champion. She is currently a Resident Artist at the Roundhouse and her work has been featured by various musicians, radio shows, and organisations including BFI, Pearson, Penguin, BBC Radio London, and the Poetry Society.
🎤 Hetty Cliss is a poet from the Fens in East Anglia and a graduate of University East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA. Her poems can be found in fourteen poems, Propel Magazine, Bi+ Lines, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry pamphlet is forthcoming with fourteen poems.
🎤 Cat Faux is a poet from Cornwall who specialises in messing around (with form). Her poems are soon to be appearing in Safeword's debut magazine this summer, and maybe other places if she remembers to submit to them.
🎤 Cia Mangat is a poet from London. Her work has been published in fourteen poems, gal-dem, Propel, and bath magg, and has been broadcast by the BBC. She loves writing about bodies, gossip, and Lady Di, and her debut pamphlet is forthcoming with The Poetry Business later this year.
🎤 Clara-Læïla Laudette is a writer and journalist. After reading English at Oxford, she studied Arabic in Palestine. She won Magma Poetry’s 2023/24 Judge’s Prize and was shortlisted for the Oxford Poetry Prize and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. Her poems have been longlisted for the 2023 National Poetry Competition and Mslexia’s Women’s Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in fourteen poems, Poetry Review, Propel Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Pulp Poets Press and Magma, among others.
After the readings, we'll be hosting an OPEN MIC — make sure to bring those beautiful and dangerous poems you've been working on, just started, or that need a bit of a dust off. Give us all the flavour of your work.
See you there.
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What we're about at Queer Poetry Collective:
A new community of queer poets and poetry lovers, we come together to celebrate, hear from and meet new, emerging and established LGBTQIA+ poetry voices. Through this, we promote and protect queer spaces and causes.