The Birkbeck Scribblers - 28 November 2012 - Benjamin Wood

The last Scribblers event I organised was on 28th November 2012 at The Plough pub close to the British Museum.  I compered again and managed to slip in an extract from a short story, Four Minutes.

We were fortunate to have our wonderful tutor, Benjamin Wood, read from his first novel, The
Bellwether Revivals.

The Birkbeck Scribblers - 2 May 2012 - Liane Strauss

The Scribblers events continued at The Hoop & Grapes and on 2nd May 2012 and I was back on duty again as compere and I also read a poem.  The audience were asked to join in by filling in feedback forms which were passed back to the readers, all useful stuff for fledgling writers.

We were very fortunate to have as our guest reader, Liane Strauss, who read from her books, Leaving Eden and Frankie Alfredo.

The Birkbeck Scribblers - 6 March 2012 - Anthony Joseph

The next Scribblers event on 6th March 2012 was held at The Hoop & Grapes pub in Farringdon.  Despite it being a little further from Uni, we still had a brilliant turn-out and I managed to get a poem selected (anonymously of course).

We were very fortunate to have as our guest reader, Anthony Joseph, who captivated the audience with his reading of poems from his books, Bird Head Son and his then forthcoming publication, Rubber Orchestras.

The Birkbeck Scribblers - Inaugural Event - 27 November 2011 - Richard Hamblyn and Jonathan Kemp

In my second year of the course at Birkbeck, I got heavily involved in a new literary group that ran reading evenings.  It became known as The Birkbeck Scribblers.  We invited submissions from across the Creative Writing BA and High Certificate courses then selected poetry and short fiction to be read at our live events.  

Here's me compering the inaugural event held at The College Arms pub close to Birkbeck

with guest readers, Richard Hamblyn 

and Jonathan Kemp.