BLF: Verve Open Door x BLF

BLF: Verve Open Door x BLF
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025
Date and time
12 Oct 2025 6pm - 7.30pm
Location

Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

Free - booking required

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"VERVE OPEN DOOR" "POETRY & SP WORD F TIV"

Birmingham Literature Festival: Verve Open Door x BLF

For three years VERVE Poetry Festival have been holding monthly open mic nights which are free to attend and provide a platform for local poet aficionados and dabblers to perform their work or try their hand. This year VERVE Open Door is landing at Birmingham Literature Festival. Hosted as usual by Rick Sanders, this is the chance for you to grace the festival stage with your very own poems. Or simply come and enjoy the fun!

Open Mic Slots: Sign up on the door for an open mic slot from half an hour before start time. This event is pure open mic – no headliner, no feature poet – so plenty of time for all to have a go. You get four minutes max to share your work. 16 slots are available to sign up for on the night – should more than 16 people want to perform names will be drawn from a hat.

Running time approx. one hour and 30 minutes

Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

Events include:

BLF: Poetry on Demand

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 12pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Workshop - Life Writing

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 10.30am
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Workshop - Smoke and Mirrors

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 10.30am
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: The Quiet Lives of Working-Class Men

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 12pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Workshop - Creative Non-Fiction

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 1.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Workshop - Writing Grief

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 1.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Boater with Jo Bell

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 1.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Falling Through the Cracks

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 2pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Searching for my Slave Roots

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 3.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Art Under Capitalism

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 4pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Rethinking the Nuclear Family

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 5.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: The Big Payback

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 7.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: A Guided Journey through The Infernal Garden

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 8pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025