Pigeon Park Press

Tag: Spoken Word

  • A Writer’s Year – 2014

    Oh, it’s been a busy year, for both Pigeon Park Press and myself as an author. This year we wrote the third and fourth Clovenhoof books (coming out in 2015, promise) and I also completed a number of steampunk chapbooks, all but the last one of which will be available before New Year. However, this year…

  • Pigeon Park Press’s Birmingham Readers’ Map celebrated at spoken word event

    Pigeon Park Press’s Birmingham Readers’ Map celebrated at spoken word event

    Finding locally set fiction is always difficult, but, says local author A.A. Abbott, “Birmingham based publishers Pigeon Park Press have sought to remedy this with the Birmingham Readers’ Map. Novels, poetry and short stories all featuring a local flavour have been collected and compiled into a GoogleMaps-style map allowing book-lovers to browse and discover stories set…

  • Pigeon Park Press presents another Birmingham spoken word event

      Pigeon Park Press is pleased to announced that its sixth spoken word event, “Saints, Sinners and Fools”, will be held on 30th April at the 6/8 Kafe in Temple Row, Birmingham. The event, running from 6:30pm – 8:30pm, which is free and open to all, will showcase some of the amazing poets, writers and…

  • Stories in Winter 2014 – A spoken word event for your diary

    Did you come along to the Pigeon Park Press All Hallows’ Read spoken word event? If the answer is “yes” then you’ll no doubt want to come along to our next spoken word event, Stories in Winter, which is being held on 29th January 2014. If the answer is “no” then let us tell you…

  • All Hallows Read spoken word event – October 23rd

      Pigeon Park Press is pleased to announced that its second annual All Hallows Read spoken word event will take place in the spooky dungeon (ahem, basement bar) of the 6/8 Kafe in Birmingham on Wednesday 23rd October 6:30pm – 8:30pm. The event, which is free and open to all, exists to promote the great writers…

  • Podcast of Saints, Sinners and Fools

      Iain Grant reads a short story at Saints, Sinners and Fools If you weren’t able to make it to Saints, Sinners and Fools, then checkout this podcast: http://www.mixcloud.com/PigeonParkPress/pigeon-park-press-saints-sinners-fools/ It was created for us by Paul McHale and you can see more of his work on his website here: http://olddeadeye.com/

  • Saints, Sinners and Fools – Spoken Word Event

      Pigeon Park Press is pleased to announced that its third spoken word event, “Saints, Sinners and Fools”, will be held on 24th April at the 6/8 Kafe in Temple Row, Birmingham. The event, running from 6pm to 9pm, which is free and open to all, will showcase some of the amazing poets, writers and…

  • ‘Stories in Winter’ reviewed

    Stories in Winter on 30th January was a second great success for Pigeon Park Press’s programme of spoken word events. However, why should we tell you how fantastic it was when we can let other people do it for us? UoB Blogfest said: “…a rich and varied bill kept a full house for the duration…

  • Winter Stories in the heart of Birmingham

    We at Pigeon Park Press are very much looking forward to the Stories in Winter spoken word event on 30th January. It is being held from 6pm – 9pm at the recently refurbished 6/8 Kafe on Temple Row in Birmingham. Our almost entirely full programme of poets and storytellers includes James Brogdan, Mark Faulkner, Luke…