Sounds About Write with Adrian Scott

From poetry to podcasts, Adrian Scott promises us an evening that's rooted in the magic of Sheffield's rich history.

We're back and better than ever for Sounds About Write in September!

Join The Writers Workshop for its monthly live literature event downstairs at Sheffield Plate. Each month we invite a published author to share their work and insight into their writing journey, and then we open the floor to emerging writers in our open-mic segment. Your work doesn't have to be polished ... it just needs to sound about right!

The event begins at 6:45PM, but join members of the Workshop upstairs from 6:15PM for some socialising before the event.

To reserve an open-mic slot, please book an open-mic ticket through Eventbrite (Note: we will no longer be taking open-mic bookings over email).

We're pleased to welcome Adrian Scott as our guest for September. With poetry and podcasts to talk about, it's going to be a really interesting discussion, we're sure! We asked Adrian to tell us a bit about himself and he said:

I have been writing and publishing poetry for the last 10 years. I have four collections – The Call of the Unwritten, Arriving in Magic and A Night Sea Journey and A Sheffield Traipsing. Discovering this calling later in life has propelled me into spending more time in the Rivelin Valley, where I live -- a place with roots going back into the pre-Industrial Revolution. For me, the city reads like a collection of villages welded together by our industrial past, revolving around a struggling city centre whose civic buildings speak of past prosperity, whereas other parts speak of our present inequalities. My writing life was further opened up by my anxiety breakdown in 2014 and it has, once I learned to accept it, invited me to rich seams of creativity. I produce two podcasts The Anxious Poet’s Podcast and Grim Up North? With writer Matt Carr.