The Elephant in the Room September Signup Form
This event is being hosted on Zoom on Tuesday, November 24th, from 7.30pm.

Our featured readers for November are Emma Clowsley. Maria Cohut and S. Reeson.

Emma Clowsley is an award winning poet, performer, host and workshop facilitator whose work explores relationships, boundaries and stereotypes. Taking queer narratives into mainstream spaces, she aims to nurture understanding and compassion between communities. She has two pamphlets published with Flight of the Dragonfly, her latest 'The Mid-Life Lesbian' was adapted to a one woman show that is touring the UK. 

Maria Cohut is a Romanian writer living in Brighton. Her writing is haunted by questions of identity, displacement, and how to fight the banalisation of violence. It features widely online and in print, including the Borders & Belonging anthology, The Other Side of Hope, and The Madrid Review, and has also aired on the radio. Maria’s first chapbook, Spatter Pattern (back room poetry, 2023), explored the issue of gender-
based violence by reimagining detective fiction tropes. Her debut collection, Multiple Exposures (Flight of the Dragonfly, 2026), is a multi-layered meditation on migration, writing in an adopted language, and healing fractured identities.

S. Reeson (she/they) is a working-class, neurodivergent poet whose space and shape poetry is underpinned by mental health, existential angst, speculative fiction and the current state of the planet. They have been published consistently in anthologies, journals and online since their first publication with The Poetry Society in 2018. They have published two pamphlets and two chapbooks, and are currently working on a collection. 

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We will ask you to read only one piece (poetry, spoken word or flash fiction, no longer than three minutes) and also provide this to us as a Word document when selected. All work is screen-shared to make sure the performances are as accessible as possible to anyone either hard of hearing or deaf. Your poem will be collated into one document which will be deleted at the end of the event. A sound file is acceptable in place of a Word file. We will then transcribe this for you.

Please note that this does not count as publication as the event will not be recorded.

Our evening will be structured as follows:

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Open Mic Poets
Feature Artist #1
Open Mic Poets

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Feature Artist #2
Open Mic Poets
Feature Artist #3

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Once we reach our limit for Open Mic sign-ups you will be placed on a Reserve List. We will inform you on receipt of this form whether you are reading or not, and will then require a Word document of your poem by Saturday, November 21st at the latest.

Failure to provide a copy of your poem for sharing will forfeit your space.


Thank you for your Support
We aim to respond to all Open Mic requests as soon as possible.

The Zoom link for the event will be sent out on the morning of the event.

Please ensure that the email you register with Zoom is the same one as you have registered with here, or you may be denied entry to The Room.

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