Plenty
A seasonal celebration of local writing

Wednesday 26 August 2026, Zoom, 7.00pm

Tickets: £3/£2*
(Writers selected to read admitted free)

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Entries close: Monday 3 August 

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As August turns to September, the growing season reaches its peak. The vagaries of the British climate allowing, this is a time of, well… plenty: our theme for our next online event that celebrates local writing. 

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As ever, we’ve picked a theme where we encourage you to draw on many possible interpretations: the joy of abundance at the height of summer, the sheer quantity of modern life and all its options and choices, the anticipation of the promised (the jam tomorrow will always be plentiful), the threat of feeling (or being) overwhelmed. ‘Plenty’ can be a triumph or a crisis: having plenty of things to be getting on with might be a blessing or a curse. And that’s before irony speaks up. (To quote The Rocky Horror Picture Show: ‘I ask for nothing’ begs the instant reply ‘And you shall receive it. In abundance.’ Plenty of nothing, after all, is a trillion times zilch.) 

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So let us have your poems, flash fiction or short creative non-fiction on the theme of plenty by 3 August. The more the merrier, appropriately enough. We’ll pick a dozen or so (a generous dozen, of course) for their writers to read as we gather online on 26 August to share the verbal bounty.  
 
Entries close at midnight on Monday 3 August 2026.

Writers selected to take part in the event will be notified by 14 August 2026. 

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