Word Central Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word.
Presented by Flapjack Press and Manchester Libraries.

Tuesday 26th August, 6.00pm – 7.45pm, at Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD.
Doors open 5.40pm and free entry.
Hosted by Tony Curry with special guest goodnighttheskye.

Book your open mic slot from noon on Tuesday 12th August via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk.
N.B. Open mic slots are 3 minutes per performer – it is essential that you stay within this timeframe.
Performance slots are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis from the stated booking time. If they are already filled you will be offered a place on the reserve list.

Our special guest goodnighttheskye is an agender poet and spoken word artist from West Yorkshire. They write about transness, chronic illness, and growing up working class in alternative subcultures, all refracted through the lens of a world populated with vampires, faeries and dragons. They have headlined at Sounds Queer Sheffield, Attic Stories Huddersfield, High Tide Festival in Twickenham, Bone Down in Leeds and Leeds Goth Requiem, and a collaboration with abstract sound artist Cam Naylor was shortlisted by the BBC Sounds Podcast Commission. In 2023 they came fourth in the UK National Slam Championships, and their debut chapbook, New Fables for Transformation, was published by Written Off Publishing in 2024.

Event host Tony Curry is a performance poet, playwright and workshop facilitator. Raised in Crawley by English and South African parents, he has lived and worked in Manchester for three decades, running literature-in-the-community projects with a specific leaning towards mental health and wellbeing. His play, The Teddy Bear, was staged at Manchester’s Contact Theatre, whilst his solo spoken word shows include Brit Boy, Complicit Relations, Moving and The Odyssey, performed at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Tony has recently toured his solo show Tall Tales for All Men, adapted from his collection Tall Tales for Tall Men Who Fall Well Short (Flapjack Press, 2012), at the Brighton Fringe and Chorlton Arts festivals.

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