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Wordsoup Short Story Special: November 16th 2010

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
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Really looking forward to this: a night dedicated to the sometimes neglected short story! I’m going to be reading a selection of flash, including The Map, which was recently shortlisted by the Biscuit International Short Story Competition.

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WORDSOUP SHORT-STORY NIGHT:

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Our regular live lit night Word Soup will be a Short Story Night on
Tuesday 16th November, and we have a fantastic line-up of Short Story
performers.

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The headline act is short story writer Zoe Lambert, published by Comma
Press, a not-for-profit publishing initiative dedicated to promoting new
fiction and poetry, with an emphasis on the short story.

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Joining Zoe for Word Soup’s Short Story Night will be the short-story
talents of Philip Burton, Mollie Baxter, Stephen Jansen, and Catie
Smith.

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The regular Open Mic slot will of course be running – so don’t forget to
bring a 3-minute piece of your own!

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Rae Morris (likened to a young Alanis Morissette by Ark Magazine) will
be putting the cherry on the top with a fabulous music set.

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Word Soup Short Story Night at The Continental, South Meadow Lane,
Preston on Tuesday 16th November from 8pm, £3.00 on the door for an
evening of priceless entertainment.

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Review of ‘Five Rooms’ from Wordsoup 1.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

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Back in June I had a flash fiction piece published in the Wordsoup 1 anthology. I’ve just discovered there’s a review on the Lancashire Writing Hub.

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Sofie Fowler writes,  ‘Mollie Baxter’s Five Rooms is a beautiful comment on domestic life. Mollie skillfully utilises repetition to express tedium but also explores the theme of security in routine. The pace is fluid and the detail creates a very believable setting.’

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To read the full review which looks at pieces from Jane Brunning, Tom Fletcher, Rachel McGladdery, Norman Hadley and many other great writers click here and scroll to October 26th.

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Pumpkin Soup!

Saturday, October 16th, 2010
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Found these lights on www.ubergizmo.com

This is actually about next Tuesday’s Wordsoup, which as you can see has been given a Halloween twist! But their calling it Pumpkin Soup has got me thinking of my valiant annual efforts to get creative with pumpkin carving, best respresentative quote being, ‘But what is that?’ (It was Gromit) and making a disappointing soup out of the leftovers.

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This year I think I’ll limit my pumpkin efforts to the fabulous Wordsoup Halloween special. I’ll be performing the collaborative monologue written by David Riley based on a short story of the same name by Norman Hadley, so I’ve donned my rehearsal socks to get into the character of a young postgrad astrophysicist (Norman will probably correct me shortly on the true nature of her specialism…) who makes an amazing discovery whilst shooting lazers into bits of Mica.

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But there’s all sorts going on that night (see the corking line-up below), including an open mike, so get your fangs in and join us!

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Word Soup goes all Pumpkin flavoured for a Special Halloween Edition -
at The Continental on Tuesday 19th October, 8pm.

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The Lancashire Writing Hub are more than a little excited to announce
that multiple Award-winning Horror Meister Conrad Williams will be
headlining the next Word Soup Live Lit night – Pumpkin Soup – at The
Continental in Preston.

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Peter Straub said about Conrad:

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“This is horror literature unabashed and entire, at full imaginative stretch, beautiful and blazing. Williams possesses a fearless heart and an absolutely gorgeous soul.”

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Joining Conrad for a fantastic literary set will be the fabulous talents
of Mollie Baxter, Rachel McGladdery, and Nick Garrard, plus there’ll be
an Open Mic session, of course, so feel free to bring along a 3 minute
set of your own, and it’ll be a magical evening – with Mark the Magician
offering delightful sleight-of-hand moments throughout the evening – and
music from Three Four. We’ll also be showcasing some suitably sinister
short films from the Version Film Festival to round off a fantastic
night.

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Word Soup’s Pumpkin Soup, Tuesday 19th October at The Continental, South
Meadow Lane, Preston PR1 8JP, £3.00 on the door – don’t miss it!

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Gigs and readings Summer 2010

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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Hi Peops,

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Until I get the gig calender up and running on the homepage, here are the shows I’ve got coming up over the next couple of months.

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MUSIC:

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mona-houseFriday 2nd July 2010: Mona House Art, Comedy and Music Night. Mollie Baxter, Sam Wilson, Jess Thomas, Al Alvarez, Ron Scowcroft, Dee Sidlo. 7.30pm, FREE

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Friday 16th July: Spotlight Club, Storey, Lancaster. Moll Baxter band finishing off a night of  spoken word with music. 8pm, £4.00/£2.00

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Thursday 5th August: Moll Baxter Band play The Golden Lion, Lancaster from 9pm. FREE

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Saturday 14th August: Moll Baxter Band at the Music Coop’s festival in Warton. More details tbc.

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WRITING:

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tringe-logo-2-280x351Tuesday 27th July: Wordsoup Tringe special, a second chance to see the dramatisation of ‘Keeping Light,’ a collaboration between Mollie Baxter, Norman Hadley and David Riley. The Continental Preston, 8pm £3.00

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WORD SOUP 1!

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Last night we convened at the Continental to celebrate Wordsoup’s first anniversary and the launch of the new anthology, presented in little bundles done up with string – can’t beat a bit of Julie Andrews wrapping! (Not to be confused with Julie Andrews rapping. ‘I say super calli fragilistic expialidosious (one time – uh!)’

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The Word Soup 1 Anthology

The Anthology! Available to buy from the Lancashire Writing Hub!

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It was a fantastic night and I got to try out some of my new pieces: ‘The Self Sufficient Opinion Grower’ and ‘Hen’.

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There were a whole plethora of performances, I particularly enjoyed Rachel McGladdery’s final piece, which I think was called ‘My Dead Dad,’ – the subject matter was risky, but executed and performed with total assurance and integrity. And Johnny5thWheel’s music was fantastic: lyrical substance, a light touch on the strings and real energy. Wordy without being heavy! Yup – Instant fan.

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Sarah Hymas treated us to a selection of poetry from a sequence in bedrock: really inspired to hear the narrative told through four generations;  Socrates Adams did a fantastic piece about, well, shall we say, young parenthood; Norman Hadley not only performed but in a multi-tasking powerhouse recorded the whole night too – three cheers for Norm! Tom Fletcher read two extracts from The Leaping which I reckon is going to be the thing to read when summer is over and the winter starts to draw in like a Great Dark Thing.

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And that’s not to mention the Open Mic! Max Wallis, Sarah Fiske, Kev McVeigh, Dave,  James Diable and his performing orange, Ron Baker, Pascal the Rascal  and Mark Mace Smith.

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And I came home with a tray of chips and a short story in a little blue book! Who could ask for anything more! But apparently extracts from the anthology are going to bus-stopped around the North West too and this continues from earlier in the week when Jane and Ruth donned balaclavas and projected extracts from the anthology in Preston and Lancaster, at the Harris Museum and Lancaster library respectively. Thanks guys!

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From 'Five Rooms' in the Word Soup 1 Anthology

From 'Five Rooms' in the Word Soup 1 Anthology

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For more info about the night and for details on buying the anthology, goto the Lancashire Writing Hub.

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And all Norman’s videos from the night are here.

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