27 May. Doors 6.30pm | Start 7pm
£4 – £6
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UK Poetry Slam Champion Tyrone Lewis teams up with Writer and Director Kayla Martell Feldman to bring you PROCESS, a monthly Spoken Word night featuring some of the most exciting acts across the scene.

It’s Kayla’s birthday month! And with the glorious weather, we bring you our regular open mic plus a headline set from the multi-award winning superstar Dean Atta, and a feature from Storytime’s Adam RW! We’re bringing back our pre-booked open mic slots but if you don’t manage to snag one, you can still sign up on the door and hope the poetry gods smile upon you…

Dean Atta is an award-winning Black British writer from London known for his heartfelt storytelling rooted in his Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage. He writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for all ages. For adult readers, his poetry collection, I Am Nobody’s Nigger, was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, and his memoir, Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body, received praise from Michael Rosen as “wonderfully original”. His young adult verse novels are The Black Flamingo, Only on the Weekends, and I Can’t Even Think Straight.  The Black Flamingo won the Stonewall Book Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Jhalak Prize. Malorie Blackman praised the book, saying, “I loved every word.” Dean has also contributed to middle-grade anthologies like Happy Here: 10 stories from Black British authors & illustrators and the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood. His picture book, Confetti, illustrated by Alea Marley, is a colourful celebration of love and life.  Additionally, Dean is a screenwriter and executive producer of the animated short film “Two Black Boys in Paradise”, which was selected for the BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival and numerous others worldwide.

Adam RW is a writer and poet based in London. He runs Storytime, a monthly storytelling night, and Literatours, a literary history walking tour group. His favourite writer is Sarah Hall and he frequently indulges in whimsy.