Great to perform at the awesome SPEAK Thanks Alex Slater & @rosiefleeshman for a great night! 🙌🏼

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October’s SPEAK was an absolute Treat 🎃 👻 9 SPEAK virgins graced the open mic 🎤 . . Our brilliant headliner Bróccán 🇵🇸 dropped a side splitting set & the room was absolutely heaving!! . . There’s just one more SPEAK to go until next year!! Who’s joining us?? 🔥💃🔥💃🔥💃🔥

And we're off! Applications for The Greater Manchester Fringe 2020 are now open! See our website for details. greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk

The sun may be starting to set on Manchester but our National Creative Writing Industry Day is still going strong with aspiring writers pitching their work to agents and publishers Manchester Metropolitan Uni #NCWID19

🚨This is your 60 minute warning🚨 Slots for our final SPEAK event of the year - Thursday 21st November go live in one hour time! Email: [email protected] Slots go live at 6pm & are released on a first come first served basis, with priority for first time speakers! 🎤

💥10 DAYS💥 🎤MORE EMAILS FOR OPEN MIC PARTICIPATION THAN EVER BEFORE 🎤 🔥🔥🔥POETRY G Ben Mellor 🧡 HEADLINING 🔥🔥🔥 🧨LAST EVENT OF THE YEAR 🧨 Jimmy's Manchester November 21st #seeyouinthebasement

Word Central returns Thurs 5 Dec, hosted by Tony Sheppard (Tony Curry) with special guest alan keogh. Manchester Central Library, doors open 5.30pm for 6pm start and free entry. FlapjackPress Manchester Libraries Library Live Danny Middleton Manchester City of Literature What's On MCR CityLife Manchester Poetry Manchester

🚨 90 minutes until these luscious doors to the Jimmy's Manchester basement 🚨 Roll up, roll up and get yourself down early for a seat, to feast on the finest words, rhymes and beats from here to the Middle East. It’s this year’s final SPEAK!! #seeyouinthebasement

**15 minutes until kick off*** 🔥 The lineup is in the pad 🔥 Check out all these SPEAK first timers read to pop their cherry on the SPEAK stage!!! 🎤⚡️ 💥

🔥We’re back🔥 With a new look, a new venue and an event that’s going to make your eyes water, details to follow. Joshua Brooks 19th March 7:30pm Tickets: tinyurl.com/t94uabh

All performers attend free! Slots open at 6pm on the 1st of March! See you there 😎♥️

🎆 It’s officially time poetry heads, our 10 open mic slots have gone live!! 🎆 If you want to apply for a slot at our big return on Thursday 19th at Joshua Brooks just email: [email protected] #seeyouinthebasement

💪 Happy Belated International Women’s Day 💪 We have just 2 slots left on offer for ladies or those who don’t identify as male. If you wanna grab them just email: [email protected] #seeyouinthebasement 🏃🏽‍♀️ 🏃🏽‍♀️

There’s just 6 days until SPEAK #30 crashes back onto the scene... Our next headliner announcement is the marvellous @ScottyTyrrell returning from his fire spot at SPEAK #18 🔥 . What a corker next week is gonna be 🍾 . Still one more headliner to go 🤫 #seeyouinthebasement

Please donate a couple of quid if you can guys. These amazing volunteers are getting food and essentials to the moment vulnerable in our community. Even a £1 goes six a long way. We support the amazing work you’re doing @HumansMCR 👏 👏

We're announcing something GOOD tomorrow... Sarah-Clare Conlon Manchester City of Literature @YoungIDmcr Contact Fred's Ale House @forbookssake Bad Language Manchester Writing School True Stories Live SPEAK Manchester Poetry Library Word Central

SPEAK hosts Alex Slater and @rosiefleeshman made a short film with Northern Broadsides Theatre Company in response to the corona virus... 🦠 👀 Check it out here 👇👇👇