Tuesday
18th December
, 8pm-11pm, FREE
The Forest,
141 Lauriston Place,
Edinburgh
The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place every
fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone
to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.
We want to hear from everybody. We want
your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your
experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your
summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and
extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want
to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way
words are performed.
This month we’re bringing you a feature
from Bram E. Gieben, a Glasgow-based writer, emcee and musician. Bram is
awesomely talented and hugely prolific: his crime novel was nominated for the
2012 CWA Debut
Dagger Award; his short fiction has been published by Timid Pirate
Press and Drey Magazine, and received
a special mention in the Boing Boing
‘Gadget Fiction’ contest of 2009; and he set up Weaponizer Press, an open-source site
publishing edgy, groundbreaking fiction by emerging authors. Under the
name Texture,
he also makes loop-based hip-hop with dubstep, electro, and lo-fi influences,
and he also helped set up the netlabel Black Lantern Music,
releasing music by more than thirty artists from Scotland and worldwide. Find
out more at www.bramegieben.co.uk.
NOTE: WE’VE MOVED BACK! After a year being
supported by the lovely Lothian St project, we’re back in our original home of
The Forest, now at 141 Lauriston Place.
Open Mic slots are five minutes long;
e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com
to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com
for more details.
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