Verbose with Maz Hedgehog and Adam Farrer

Manchester's award-winning spoken word event - every last Monday of the month at The King's Arms! Verbose brings a vibrant mix of spoken word and live literature from a talented bill of open mic acts and wonderful headliners. Expect poetry, prose and everything in between from a real community vibe that gladly welcomes all newcomers.

Tickets are FREE at the point of service but donation tickets are available and greatly appreciated! Email us at verbosemanchester@gmail.com to apply for an open mic slot.

HEADLINERS

MAZ HEDGEHOG

Maz Hedgehog is a writer, performer and editor working in the spaces between real and unreal, poetry and theatre, self and other. Their debut chapbook, Vivat Regina, was published in 2019 and their first solo show Let Me Count the Ways is touring with HER Productions and Ink & Curtain over the summer. Outside the arts, Maz dabbles in knitting, baking and excessive swearing. Find them on twitter and instagram @MazHedgehog

ADAM FARRER

Adam Farrer is a memoirist, the Editor of the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story and the Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford. You can find his writing in numerous publications, including Lunate, Hinterland and Test Signal, an anthology of northern writing published by Dead Ink Books and Bloomsbury. His memoir, Cold Fish Soup, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards. He has performed his work at a number of arts and literature festivals, including Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Manchester Literature Festival, the Ilkley Literature Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician, a music journalist, and currently works at the University of Salford.