Multi award winning poet updates the scandalous, bawdy and colourful Georgian ballad storytelling style for the modern ear in his eleventh full length poetry show. It visits The Edge, Theatre & Arts Centre in Manchester on 14 and 15 October

Emily Goulding has recently joined HarperCollins Publishers as a Public Relations Assistant for their fiction department.

We speak to Lise Bell, former Exec Director at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, and visual artist Than Hussein Clark about the new spaces and wraparound support they are making available to artists as we look towards a post-recovery creative sector. 

Bursting with comedy, lust, tragedy and so much more. Impromptu Shakespeare combines the world of Shakespearian humour with modern-day culture to craft a unique show every night that left an audience howling. 

How The Word is Passed: A Reckoning With The History of Slavery in America is Clint Smith’s first work of nonfiction. By interweaving the past with the present, Smith sketches a history of slavery that is both informative and poetical. 

Brining to the forefront topics that were off-limits to Regency-era novelists, Reputation is a feminist twist on the classic novel. From alcohol to sex, Reputation touches upon all that would once have been considered scandalous.

Exploring unpublished materials and responses to societal issues, Nicola Abram’s Black British Women's Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics has received the Theatre Book Prize for 2021 by the Society for Theatre Research.

Is there value in studying a creative degree at University? This is my experience.

“Peter Barret certainly gave his great grandmother, Alice Hawkins, the credit she deserves for fighting the courageous battle for women’s rights to vote!”

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Patrice Lawrence won big at the 2021 Jhalak Prize Awards for their respective titles, The First Woman and Eight Pieces of Silva. Both authors received £1,000 and a unique commissioned trophy.

BBC Radio 1Xtra are collaborating with BBC Asian Network and Contains Strong Language Events to find the best emerging spoken word talent in the UK. 

The fundraiser aims to raise money to help vaccinate the world against Covid-19 using signed novels and mentoring sessions with star agents, among other lots.