The Elephant in the Room September Signup Form
This event is being hosted on Zoom on Tuesday, September 29th, from 7.30pm.

Our featured reader for September is Maria Jastrzębska.

Maria was born in Warsaw, Poland and came to the U.K as a child. She is a poet, editor and translator: her most recent publications were Small Odysseys (Waterloo Press) and Justyna Bargielska’s selected poems The Great Plan B (Smokestack Press) translated from Polish. Maria’s own work has been translated into Polish and Romanian. She co-edited Queer in Brighton (New Writing South). Her poems are widely anthologised, most recently in Woman, Mapped (Rebecca Swift/Fly on the Wall Press 2026).

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Additional Information
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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Five Open Mic Poets

Feature Artist Part 1

BREAK

Five Open Mic Poets

Feature Artist Part 2

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Once we reach 10 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, September 26th at the latest.

Failure to provide a copy of your poem for sharing will forfeit your space to the next person on the Reserve List.


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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