Speak Easy - September 2025

 

Enclosed above are the readers for September's Speak Easy (Spoken Word Open Mic night - our 10th anniversary special) at Chorlton's Dulcimer Bar , all of whom will read out their work in 4-minute segments on 04 September 2025. 

Guest Host is the original creator of Speak Easy, David Hartley. 

To go on the cancellation list (You never know), drop Andy N an email on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk, and we will see you on Thursday 04 September 2025. 

Admission is free. 

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Andy N

Amanda Nicholson 

Steve Smythe

David Hartley 

Grant Curnow

Mark Quinn

Andy Cash

Rachel Hammond

Norman Dearlove Scott

Michael Hulley (Volodya Gorky)

Beth Cater

Daniel Findell

Joe Tetley

Martin Elder

Jared More 

Dylan Sayers

Martin CM (Martin Corlettmoss)

Anne Delargy

Karen Kendrick

Ria Jones

Anthony Briscoe

Antonia Fusaro

Trystan Lewis

Stuart Atkinson

Jenny Pilkington

Thomas Marsden 

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David Hartley is a writer, researcher, tutor and performer with a taste for the strange and the wonderful. He is the author of 'Fauna' (Fly on the Wall Press) and 'Incorcisms' (Arachne Press), and has a PhD in Creative Writing with The University of Manchester where he currently teaches. In 2024, he was writer-in-residence in Tartu, Estonia where he created 'The Forest of Ink & Skin' an immersive storytelling experience about folktales, forests, and tattoos. He is also the creator and host of The Embassy of Utopia at the Festival of Libraries.

He was also the original creator and host of the very first Speak Easy, back when it started life in a small upstairs room at the Sip Club in Stretford. Reading his work in front of small audiences in weird little rooms in random pubs is still one of his favourite things...