STORIE: EXPERIMENTS IN PROSE
Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 .
Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 & another eclectic night of experiments in prose featuring a full line-up of West Midlands-based writers including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL.
ELFRIEDE ATWAL is a writer studying narrative design in videogames. They spend most of their time either accidentally breaking their own games or working on their novel, a trans horror reimagining of ‘The Road’.
THOMAS GLAVE was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. He is the author of five books, including a forthcoming essay collection (Jacaranda Books, 2026), and editor of the anthology ‘Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles’. A two-time Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards, Glave has been a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick, and Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT. He is an associate editor of Wasafiri, a trustee of Writing West Midlands, and a trustee of Peepal Tree Press. An honorary visiting professor of English at the University of Liverpool, Glave is professor of English and creative writing at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
SJ KIM was born in Korea and raised in the American South. She is the author of ‘This Part is Silent’, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Burn Prize. Her writing on racial, gendered, institutional and political violence has appeared in Wasafiri, Oxford American, TOLKA, and The Hanok Review among other publications. She resides in the UK and teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick.
LYZA LAWAL is a writer & book blogger based in Birmingham. She grew up in London & was schooled in Nigeria. A lover of African classical literature & magical realism, she explores books through a cultural lens. Lyza has contributed to readin.mag (2025) and Project Myopia (2021). She is currently working on a short story collection.
TICKETS: Free
Please reserve your ticket here on our Eventbrite page.
KILDER BAR is located at 5 Shaw’s Passage, Digbeth with step-free access via the entrance on Shaw’s Passage.
For further enquiries about the event, please email storie@vocebooks.com
Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 .
Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 & another eclectic night of experiments in prose featuring a full line-up of West Midlands-based writers including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL.
ELFRIEDE ATWAL is a writer studying narrative design in videogames. They spend most of their time either accidentally breaking their own games or working on their novel, a trans horror reimagining of ‘The Road’.
THOMAS GLAVE was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. He is the author of five books, including a forthcoming essay collection (Jacaranda Books, 2026), and editor of the anthology ‘Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles’. A two-time Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards, Glave has been a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick, and Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT. He is an associate editor of Wasafiri, a trustee of Writing West Midlands, and a trustee of Peepal Tree Press. An honorary visiting professor of English at the University of Liverpool, Glave is professor of English and creative writing at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
SJ KIM was born in Korea and raised in the American South. She is the author of ‘This Part is Silent’, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Burn Prize. Her writing on racial, gendered, institutional and political violence has appeared in Wasafiri, Oxford American, TOLKA, and The Hanok Review among other publications. She resides in the UK and teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick.
LYZA LAWAL is a writer & book blogger based in Birmingham. She grew up in London & was schooled in Nigeria. A lover of African classical literature & magical realism, she explores books through a cultural lens. Lyza has contributed to readin.mag (2025) and Project Myopia (2021). She is currently working on a short story collection.
TICKETS: Free
Please reserve your ticket here on our Eventbrite page.
KILDER BAR is located at 5 Shaw’s Passage, Digbeth with step-free access via the entrance on Shaw’s Passage.
For further enquiries about the event, please email storie@vocebooks.com
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- 2 hours 30 minutes
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5 Shaw's Passage
Birmingham B5 5JG
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