Shade yourself at STORIE this summer where we’ll be hearing some brand-new work from the West Midlands very own STUART KANE, ELIZABETH LEE & CHARLOTTE TAYLOR alongside writer & host of Folkestone-based prose night Club Verbal Discharge, JIMI ODELL.
STUART KANE has been writing for a decade after completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham in 2016. Bloomsbury Academic published his interview with author Kevin Barry in ‘Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions Across the Globe’ in 2019. He has self-published two fact-based novels about the 1970s maverick footballer Robin Friday, ‘Man Friday: The First Half’ and ‘Man Friday: The Second Half’ – a duology collectively known as The Life and Times of Robin Friday which took five years of research & writing. Kane has recently completed Robin Friday’s biography, & a true crime biography based on a reformed London bank robber who became the first person in the UK to face trial without a jury for four hundred years.
ELIZABETH LEE is an author, editor & writing mentor. Her work has been selected for Penguin's WriteNow Live & she was awarded the Curtis Brown Creative Marian Keyes Scholarship. Her debut novel, ‘Cunning Women’, is published by Penguin.
JIMI ODELL is a graduate of City University’s novel writing MA. His short fiction has been published in Quiddity, Storyteller’s Refrain, & the Interpreter’s House, & his story ‘The Stash’ was highly recommended for the London Short Story Prize. Having spent most of his life in London, he now lives in Folkestone where he hosts the local branch of Club Verbal Discharge, a night for writers to share their work in progress.
CHARLOTTE TAYLOR is a writer based in Bearwood, Birmingham. Growing up on a council estate in Bartley Green, she was shaped by the contrasts of poverty & the semi-rural sprawl—a childhood bordered by vast farmland, council estates, & the roar of the M5. Her work explores themes of family history, memory, & identity through deeply personal, regionally inspired narratives. Her writing has appeared in The Derwent Press & she is currently working on a collection of short stories celebrating a 30-year friendship. Alongside her creative pursuits, Charlotte works at a women's centre supporting women in mental health care, & she is a proud mother of three boys.
TICKETS: Free
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KILDER BAR is located at 5 Shaw’s Passage, Digbeth with step-free access via the entrance on Shaw’s Passage.
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