The photos for our Fiction Night at Five Leaves Bookshop are here! Thanks to all that came along and those that performed, it was a great night! Also a big thank you for everyone at Five Leaves for letting us take over for the night 🙂
David Belbin
Fiction Night Tonight!
Not long left until Fiction Night
ENTRY IS FREE
Come down to the Five Leaves Bookshop and join us for an evening of Fiction.
Copies of Restless Minds will be available for £5.
“Join us for an evening of readings on topics such as falling in love with Death, the last man living in an empty tower block doomed for destruction, and narrowly escaping a necromancer.” – You can R.S.V.P to bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk
7 Days to Fiction Night
ENTRY IS FREE
Come down to the Five Leaves Bookshop and join us for an evening of Fiction. Whether you’re interested in YA, fantasy, comedy, horror, contemporary, our contributors have concocted a fantastic blend for your imagination!
You can catch: Paul Adey, Sana Aslam, Oliver Clark, Nick Jowett, L. D. Lapinski, Marie Peach-Geraghty, and Clare Stevens reading. Also, special guests David Belbin and Jonathan Taylor, will have a tale or two to share.
Copies of Restless Minds will be available for £5.
“Join us for an evening of readings on topics such as falling in love with Death, the last man living in an empty tower block doomed for destruction, and narrowly escaping a necromancer.” – You can R.S.V.P to bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk
Restless Minds presents, Fiction Night!
ENTRY IS FREE
On April 29th, the Five Leaves Bookshop are letting us use their space to host our very own Fiction Night. Our special guests for the evening are David Belbin and Jonathan Taylor.
We can confirm that the following contributors: Paul Adey, Sana Aslam, Oliver Clark, Nick Jowett, L. D. Lapinski, Marie Peach-Geraghty, and Clare Stevens will be reading. Kristina Adams will be compering.
Along with readings from the anthology, some of our contributors will read new things they are working on at the moment, and even continuations of stories from Restless Minds.
Copies of Restless Minds will be available for £5.
“Join us for an evening of readings on topics such as falling in love with Death, the last man living in an empty tower block doomed for destruction, and narrowly escaping a necromancer.” – You can R.S.V.P to bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk
Fiction Night! Coming soon…
Well the 29th April is only a few weeks away and the awesome people at the Five Leaves Bookshop are letting us use their space to host our very own Fiction Night.
Our special guests, David Belbin and Jonathan Taylor, will be reading along with a host of other Restless Minds contributors. There will be some extracts from the anthology but our Fiction writers are planning to read a host of new stories they’ve been working on since you last saw them at our launch!
Entry is free! Copies of Restless Minds will be available for £5, only a handful remain.
“Join us for an evening of readings on topics such as falling in love with Death, the last man living in an empty tower block doomed for destruction, and narrowly escaping a necromancer.” – You can R.S.V.P to bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk
Totally Wired Poetry Photos
Becky Cullen opening the night.
Rory Waterman introducing us.
Lauren C. Terry reading from her notebook.
She read ‘Priority’, ‘Marina’ and ‘Brick by Brick’.
Peter Newman read his poem ‘At Taverna Giuseppe’.
He read all four pages of it from memory!
Peter Newman
Kristina Adams read ‘Portait of my Nan as an Armchair’, ‘Domestic Bliss’ and ‘Hypoglycaemia’.
Despite how it looks in this photos, she did not break out into song.
She only does that around Christmas time.
Group photo!
He’s a cheeky one, that Rory.
He didn’t actually pour it. Luckily.
Totally Wired photos coming soon!
Impromptu reunion at Totally Wired last night featuring a cheeky Rory! More photos coming as soon as Kristina and her camera get along again.
Jazz & Poetry Photos continued…
Here are more photos from 12th November Jazz & Poetry night. These photos are courtesy of Kristina Adams who clearly had the better camera!
Mark Done reads his poems in Restless Minds, ‘Canal’ and ‘Manor Street’.
Mark Done also read ‘The Piano Teacher’s House’ and ‘Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station’, which are not in the anthology
Kristina Adams reads her poem in Restless Minds, ‘Portrait of my Nan as an Armchair’
Kristina also read ‘Hypoglycaemia’ and ‘Domestic Bliss’ which are not in Restless Minds
Lauren C. Terry reads her poem in Restless Minds, ‘Priority’. She also read ‘Marina’ and ‘Dust to Dust’
Matthew Sweeney
Cathy Grindrod
Four in the Bar playing some classical jazz
Jazz & Poetry Videos
Here is our Jazz & Poetry playlist featuring Mark Done, Kristina Adams and Lauren C. Terry reading their poems at Guitar Bar.
You can subscribe to our YouTube account to watch our videos as soon we upload them. There is now a YouTube link in our menu at the top of the page which will take you straight to it. As we do more reading events we hope to upload more videos, so stay tuned. Launch Night videos are being prepped!
Mark Done reads his poem, ‘Manor Street’.
Kristina Adams reads her poems, ‘Portrait of my Nan as an Armchair’, ‘Hypoglycaemia’ and ‘Domestic Bliss’.
Lauren C. Terry reads her poems, ‘Priority’, ‘Marina’ and ‘Dust to Dust’.
Thank you to Kristian Elliott and Jon Plummer for filming the readings. Although, Kristian has realised that filming in portrait is never the best option.
You can watch Matthew Sweeney read his poem, ‘The Ghost’, and also watch Cathy Grindrod read her poem, ‘The Domino Effect’ on the Jazz & Poetry group page. The videos were filmed by David Belbin. Jazz and Poetry night happens once a month, the next event will at 8pm on December 10th with more details announced in the future. There are always fantastic a poets lined up to read! If you join the Jazz & Poetry group page on Facebook, you can keep up-to-date with all their upcoming events.
Restless Minds 