Call for spoken word contributions for The Writers’ Room @ PAGES Artists’ Book Fair
Contributions are welcome for a spoken word event at Leeds Art Gallery and Central Library on 22 March, organised by The Writers' Room.
The Writers’ Room is a Wild Pansy Press initiative with a current base in Holy Trinity Church in Cloudesley Square, London.
It provides a space for artists, writers and creatives working at the cross-over of Art and Writing to propose and install temporary projects and events.
The Writers’ Room will be hosting an open call for anyone wishing to read from their artist’s book, their poetry, or any other form of text or performance-based reading at the PAGES Artists’ Book Fair on Saturday 22 March (12 to 4pm).
The readings will take place in the Central Library’s Room 700 exhibition space, adjacent to the fair.
If you are interested, please email Lucy Cunningham at lucyrosecunningham@gmail.com with your name, title of the reading, and duration by Friday 21 March.
Individual readings should be no longer than 10 minutes.
More information
The Wild Pansy Press was established in 1995 by Simon Lewandowski (Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds) and Chris Taylor (Professor in Fine Art Practice, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies). It is a collective art practice and small publishing house which has built up a considerable catalogue of books and projects, often linking a publication to an exhibition in ways which extend and confound the usual notions of a catalogue.
Based in Leeds and London, The Wild Pansy Press actively develops partnerships with other groups to build a network of practitioners who explore and advance publication – in its widest sense – as both a distributional strategy and medium of practice.
The Writers’ Room is a working and meeting space made available to The Wild Pansy Press by the Florence Trust as part of their new studios and gallery development in the former Holy Trinity Church building in Cloudesley Square, Islington. It is a site for intense full- or part-time residential periods at the intersection of fine art and literature – be that of art writing, memoir, auto-fiction, science fiction, fan-fiction, zine culture, sound art, broadcasting or the spoken word.
The Writers Room is coordinated by fine art alumna Lucy Rose Cunningham, Simon Lewandowski, Postgraduate Researcher Hang Zhang and Chris Taylor.
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The Writers Room Readings, 2024. Photo by Chris Taylor.
