STORIE: EXPERIMENTS IN WORKING-CLASS PROSE

STORIE: EXPERIMENTS IN WORKING-CLASS PROSE

Hear from a line-up of West Midlands-based writers at this specifically curated evening of EXPERIMENTS IN WORKING-CLASS PROSE.

By Voce Books

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Location

KILDER

5 Shaw's Passage Birmingham B5 5JG United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours 30 minutes

Hear from a line-up of West Midlands-based writers as they step up to the mic at Digbeth-based new writing night STORIE for a specifically curated evening of EXPERIMENTS IN WORKING CLASS PROSE.

Selected from their first ever open submissions call—& in direct response to the sobering data released by the Sutton Report in 2024 that people from working class backgrounds are 4 times less likely to pursue careers in the creative industries—Birmingham writers & STORIE co-curators TAYLOR BURNS & CLIVE JUDD introduce new working class writers to experiment with the boundaries of prose: expect narrative detour, formal invention, & a proper celebration of West Midlands writing all set under the arch of Digbeth’s KILDER BAR.

This event is hosted as part of the BIRMINGHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2025.

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

Organized by

Voce Books is a new independent bookshop for Birmingham, located at The Warehouse in Digbeth. We focus on the vibrant and boundary-breaking independent publishing scene, the site of some of the most eclectic and future-focused writing. We stock fiction, translations, poetry, the most interesting titles on culture and politics, magazines, zines & a little bit of art.

New books. New voices.

We believe that the best books have their own unique character, their own specific and distinctive voice, hence our name, Voce: the Italian word for voice. With carefully curated shelves categorised by individual publisher and two experienced booksellers dedicated to recommending books that showcase the true breadth and diversity of the independent publishing landscape both at home and across the world, Voce Books is an entirely contemporary and inclusive book space, inspired by the new, the unusual and the unexpected.

Free
Oct 16 · 7:00 PM GMT+1