Cafe Writers September 2025

Welcome to Cafe Writers September 2025!

Join us for a virtual gathering of writers from around the globe. We invite both new work and professional polish. There are open mic opportunities at every meeting.

Date: 8th September 2025

Location: Online.

Amanda Dalton is a poet, playwright and essayist. Her poetry collections How To Disappear, Stray and Fantastic Voyage (May 2024) are published by Bloodaxe Books. Poetry pamphlets include an experimental ‘sketchbook,’ 30 Poems In Thirty Days (Arc 2021) and Notes on Water (smith|doorstop 2022). For theatre and BBC Radio 4 and 3 she writes original drama, essays and adaptations and she frequently works in collaboration with other artists and artforms. She is a visiting lecturer at Manchester University and MMU’s Writing School. Amanda lives in Hebden Bridge.

Kathy Pimlott has three pamphlets with The Emma Press: After the Rites and Sandwiches (2024), Elastic Glue, (2019) and Goose Fair Night (2016). Her collection, the small manoeuvres, was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2022. Her poems have been published widely in print and onilne magazines, including Magma, Mslexia, The North, Poem, Finished Creatures, Under the Radar, And Other Poems, The Friday Poem and London Grip and in several anthologies. Kathy was born and brought up Nottingham but has lived for close on fifty years in Seven Dials, Covent Garden, home of the broadsheet and the ballad.

Please register for EITHER a place in the audience, an open mic slot or a reserve open mic slot - please don't book both.

If you book an open mic slot please DON'T book a reserve or audience place as this wastes a ticket.

Open mic is first come first served, so if you register for a place please make sure you attend the event - or let us know beforehand so we can give your place to someone on our reserve list. If you read at our July event please leave this month's opportunity for others. Open mic slots are for ONE poem or two minutes of prose.

You should automatically receive confirmation of your booking from Eventbrite followed by a link on the day of the event - this link is often sent very close to meeting time so don't panic. If you don't see the eventbrite emails please check your spam filter. You should be able to access the event from the eventbrite page too - just go to your ticket.

Virtual doors will open at 7.30pm and be locked at 7.45pm, when the readings start

Please note you will need to have a basic (free) zoom account as it may ask you to log in using your email address.