{"product_id":"first-october-book-club-writing-group-ticket","title":"October Book Club\/Writing Group Ticket","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYour ticket for this event is your email confirmation, please ensure you have input your email address correctly and get in touch if you have any questions. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur monthly book club and writing group will be on the following dates:\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThursday 1st October\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThursday 29th October \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThursday 26th November \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou are welcome to come to both the writing group and book club or one or the other. Please don't be put off coming if you didn't finish the book, you can still join in the discussion or listen to others chat about it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6:30 - 7:30 Creative Writing Session (all skill levels)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLocal poet Carson Wolfe, will be reading from their collection Coin Laundry at Midnight which\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e centres themes of motherhood, queerness, sex work, patriarchy, feminism, all the good stuff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. They will be leading the writing group with some writing prompts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarson Wolfe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Mancunian poet and Grand Prize Winner of The Disquiet Literary Program 2024. Their work has appeared with POETRY, The Rumpus, The Common, and Rattle. In 2023, they won New Writing N\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eorth’s Debut Poetry Prize, received awards from The Aurora Poetry Prize, The Edward Thomas Fellowship, and were longlisted in The Poetry Society’s National Competition. They are the author of two chapbooks, Boy(ish), and Coin Laundry at Midnight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe then take a short \u003cstrong\u003e5 minute break \u003c\/strong\u003ebefore \u003cstrong\u003echatting about that month's book\u003c\/strong\u003e. The conversation is informal and everyone's perspective is welcome but the conversation will be guided, so that everyone has a chance to speak if they want to. There will be questions and prompts to get the conversation going if people are feeling stuck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want to join our Whatsapp group, send us an email greyareabooks@gmail.com or DM us on instagram @greyareabooks, you will be the first to hear about our upcoming events. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNext book \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Queens of Sarmiento Park \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-  \u003c\/strong\u003e by Camila Sosa Villada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e10% off with code OCTOBERBOOKCLUB\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuntie Encarna's is the queerest boarding house in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Camila, it is a refuge, and the raggle-taggle band of queens who gather there are like family. At night they dress up and head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money. They stand together in the cold, sharing stories and a hip flask of whiskey, waiting for a car to slow down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil, one freezing evening, Auntie Encarna hears crying in the bushes and wades in to investigate. When she finds an abandoned baby boy, she will hear no arguments: she is bringing him home to care for him. Life for Camila and the others will never be the same again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a cast of larger-than-life, unforgettable characters, The Queens of Sarmiento Park combines brutal, unflinching realism with flourishes of surrealism to tell a story about the clash of hope with prejudice and fear. 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