Viva la Wedding / Verbose

Verbose is a spoken word night on the 4th Monday of each month at Fallow Cafe in Manchester. Each night has a theme with three headliners and around 15 open mic-ers. It's a very friendly, supportive night, hosted by Zena Barrie and Jo Howard. We welcome a huge range of published writers from big names such as DJ Dave Haslam, to rising stars like Lisa Harding and Sophie Mackintosh as well as plenty of local talent such as Maz Hedgehog and Melanie Rees. We are proud that our night attracts such a variety of individual voices, sharing poetry, fiction, theatre and creative non fiction all held together by our monthly theme. It's definitely a fun and sometimes an emotional experience. We are establishing a writing community; encouraging new writers to share their work and seasoned writers to write and share new material. Our headliners are inspiring and our open mic-ers no less so! There are always surprises, laughs and usually tears as well.