Launch and November Newsletter
Launch and November Newsletter
Hi there, Okay, so we skipped a couple of months! We fully intended to get a monthly newsletter going, and then there was the competition deadline and the issue deadline and Fire This Time, and it all got too much, to be honest. So just before the parties start and the shopping begins, here’s the November newsletter. We hope to see you at one or more of this month’s events. 1. Prizegiving and Launch of Issue 5, 19 November The judges have decided and the winners have been announced, so please join us for the prizegiving on Sunday, 19th November. The awards ceremony is also the launch of our fifth Issue, which includes all the winning stories and poems alongside some great new writing and artwork. The event will take place at The Pool, 104 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London EC2. We’ll start at 5pm. There’ll be free pool (it is the Competition Issue, after all), some free subscriptions to give away, and 5 pairs of tickets to the Hockney exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. 2. Chroma Reading at Waterstone’s, 23 November If you can’t make it to the launch, or you’re just hungry to hear more Chroma writers read, and you want to chill out with a glass of wine and a mince pie before the shopping really gets frantic, Chroma contributors will be reading from their work on Thurs, 23 November at Waterstone’s, 311 Oxford Street, London W1. 7pm start. 3. Nina Rapi Does Bad Girl Behaviour, 17 November Chroma contributor (Issue 1) and general bad girl, Nina Rapi, is amongst the Bitch Lit writers in an evening of sinful readings, diva excitement and bad girl behaviour. Organised by Spread the Word, in association with Chroma. Friday, 17 November at 6pm. Lower Nettlefold Hall, 1 Norwood High Street, London SE27 9JX. 4. Andra Simons Performs Freshwater, 15 November And another badly-behaved boy, the outrageous genius-poet, Andra Simons, leads an evening of spoken word assailants at the RADA Foyer Bar on Wednesday, November 15th at 7.30pm. Read his work in Chroma, Issue 4. Katie Southall will also be performing, and others, too. Malet Street, London WC1. 5. Moj of the Antarctic, 14-18 November And uber-bad boy, Del LaGrace Volcano (see cover of Issue 4) does the Visual Art for Mojisola Adebayo’s Moj of the Antarctic at the Lyric Hammersmith. The first Black woman to set foot in Antarctica fuses performance, music, and photographic projections. 14-18 November, 8pm. Lyric Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King Street, London W6 0QL. 6. Chroma’s Telephone Number Yes, we now have a telephone number. So don’t be strangers. It’s 020 7193 7642. If you’re calling from abroad, drop the first 0 in 020 and add +44 at the beginning. 7. Sarah Waters to Judge Next Queer Writing Competition We’re excited to announce that Sarah Waters will be one of the short story judges of our next Writing Competition. Please send entries to Chroma Writing Competition, PO Box 44655, London N16 0WQ. Poems up to 50 lines, stories - 5,000 words. Entry fee is
