Ghost Willow Press is a new indie publisher run by me, Mathew Gostelow. We’ll be launching with a collection of my own short stories in Spring/Summer 2025, followed by a charity anthology entitled The Whispering Gallery in the Autumn.

The Whispering Gallery will feature ‘quiet horror’ short stories and flash fictions, collected in ebook and paperback editions, with all proceeds donated to Mind, a mental health charity in the UK.

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We are a Nottingham, UK based poetry collective. We're nice and we don't always rhyme.

Our aim is to give budding poets the opportunity to perform their work in public and get their work published and we're proud to have members of all ages, shapes, sizes, experiences and styles, from brand new poets and occasional hobbyists to slam winners and published writers.

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Bunkers Hill, Nottingham

Speech Therapy bids farewell to 2024 and hello to festering festive fun at our last monthly gathering of the year on Friday 6th December 2024! We will have all the usual fun and games and extra festive fings occurring. There will be a single featured artiste in the form of the mighty Restless Spirits...whereby the ever excellent poetry of Matt McAteer is somehow made even better filtered through a sonic air fryer of invention and imagination (trust me, it is better even than that description).

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New Art Exchange, Nottingham

Join us for a magical evening featuring the incredible talents of:

Davina Songbird: Prepare to be enchanted by her soulful voice and captivating lyrics.
SUNIQUE: Angelic voice of a singer who is of Swiss-Jamaican heritage and a semi-finalist on The Voice Kids UK.
Frank LaFunk: Local Rap Icon should get you moving and shaking with a premier flow and expert penmanship.
Khandasi: From Birmingham a singer/poet who graces our microphone with Swahali

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Five Leaves Bookshop 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG12DH

Dandelions Poetry is back at Five Leaves for our special reading between Christmas and New Year. Come and join us for a dose of poetry at the ‘in between’ time of year. We are very pleased to have Rory Waterman as our featured poet. Rory has four collections of poetry published by Carcanet press. Come Here to This Gate, his fourth collection, was published in 2024. Rory’s poems have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, The Best British Poetry, PN Review, the Guardian and the Financial Times. He is also a reviewer, critic and Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Nottingham Trent University.

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