Each month we feature a literary guest and their work in progress and then we invite you to share yours in our open mic and slam challenge

Words in Progress is our rebranded live literature event in place of Sounds About Write.

The focus of our first event on October 8th is Poetry and we're delighted to be featuring local poet, Susie Wilson

Join our founder, Beverley Ward, each month when she'll be chatting to a guest from the literary world and asking them about their writing journey and specifically about their current work in progress in a particular genre.

After the guest interview, we'll invite members of the audience to take part in our improv writing slam in which we challenge them to write on a specific theme in the genre of our guest and to include a variety of random prompts selected on the night.

Finally, we invite you to share your own new work in our open mic.

Each event will be themed around a different genre of writing and our first event of the year is Poetry (though you're welcome to share any genre of writing in the open mic.)

About Susie

Susie Wilson is a Scottish poet living in Sheffield. She has published two pamphlets, Skin the Rabbit (The Braag, 2025) and Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve, 2024) which won the Disabled Poets Prize 2024. She spent 2026 writing about rivers (the Don and the Spey) funded by the Arts Council, with pieces from that project published in Ambient Receiver, Tears in the Fence and forthcoming in Under the Radar, including writing in clown and collaborating with musicians. Her poetry has also appeared widely in magazines such as Acumen, Black Bough, Carmen et Error, Gather, Ink Sweat & Tears, Northern Gravy, Propel and Stand. Susie tutors, mentors and facilitates, such as for Writing East Midlands’ Beyond the Spectrum, Manchester Poetry Library and Sheffield Central Library's Sub Club and this Autumn is starting a TS Eliot Poetry Prize Shadow Judging reading group with Sheaf Poetry Festival. Further details available at www.susiewilsonpoet.com or @concordmoose on Instagram. She also voluntarily runs the free listing service, What’s On in Sheffield Poetry. To join, please go to: https://forms.gle/tefPGokrzLySnUhB6

To secure an open-mic slot, get an 'Open Mic' ticket (you might have to scroll down on the ticket page). If the Open Mic tickets have sold out, email beverleywardwriter@gmail.com to be added to the reserve list (in case we have no-shows or more time on the night). Slots are 5 minutes each.

This is a pay what you can event, so please make a donation when you book your ticket to help us to continue to put on this event for you.

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