STORIE

experiments in prose curated by taylor burns & clive judd produced by james trevelyan in association with @vocebooks & @kilder_bar [email protected]

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🎤 Join us for the final event of our third season & hear work from from: JOSH ALLEN, ANIA BAS, TAYLOR BURNS, SASHA BUTLER, CURTIS EBANKS FALCONER, ALAN KANE FRASER, CLIVE JUDD, TOM MAGUIRE, KATE MASCARENHAS & BETH PREECE

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✍️ BETH PREECE is a fiction writer, essayist, and PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Birmingham. Her short fiction and essays can be found in the likes of The Stinging Fly, Folding Rock, Extra Teeth, and The London Magazine.

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🎤 Join us for the final event of our third season & hear work from from: JOSH ALLEN, ANIA BAS, TAYLOR BURNS, SASHA BUTLER, CURTIS EBANKS FALCONER, ALAN KANE FRASER, CLIVE JUDD, TOM MAGUIRE, KATE MASCARENHAS & BETH PREECE

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✍️ KATE MASCARENHAS is an author based in Birmingham. Her novels include ‘The Psychology of Time Travel’, ‘The Thief on the Winged Horse’, & most recently, a roaring twenties supernatural horror called ‘Hokey Pokey’.

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✍️ TOM MAGUIRE is a writer and DJ from North Brum. His fiction and essays appear in Floodgate Press, Derwent Press, Concrete Mag and elsewhere. He is perpetually working on his first novel about a flooded Birmingham.

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✍️ CLIVE JUDD is an award-winning writer, literary curator, and bookseller originally from Worcester, now based in Birmingham. He is the co-owner of Voce Books, & Festival Programmer for the Birmingham Literature Festival 2026. He is the co-curator of STORIE.

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✍️ ALAN KANE FRASER is a writer originally from Handsworth, Birmingham. His novel ‘The Muse of Hope Falls’ was published by Lightning Books in 2023. He still lives in Birmingham and now writes predominantly about the city and the wider West Midlands.

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✍️ CURTIS EBANKS-FALCONER grew up in Handsworth, Birmingham but now lives in the Black Country He is currently in the process of publishing his historical novel, ‘The French Bet’.

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✍️ SASHA BUTLER lives & writes in Birmingham. Her debut novel ‘The Marriage Contract’ (Salt) was published in 2025, and was listed as a Sunday Times best historical fiction book of 2025 & awarded ‘Best historical fiction to take you back in time’ by the Cosmopolitan Book Awards.

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✍️ TAYLOR BURNS is a writer from Birmingham & current Writer-in-Residence at Voce Books. His debut novel ‘Trav’ will be released in July 2026 on Zer0 Books. He is the co-curator of STORIE.

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✍️ ANIA BAS is an artist, writer and arts organiser working across text, performance, publishing and social engagement. Her debut novel Odd Hours (2022) was named the Irish Examiner’s Novel of the Year.

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✍️ JOSH ALLEN is a Birmingham based creative non-fiction writer. Much of his current practice revolves around walking, especially in the Midlands region, with pieces recently published by Left Cultures, Floodgate Press, Heath & Mud and the Derwent Press.

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🗣️♦️ Our Spring edition of STORIE flew by in a blink last week with GRACE BEARD, LAURA BLAKE, JAKE TRELEASE & BEN WADDINGTON joining our ever-expanding & illustrious list of alumni. Incredible work from four incredible writers!

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🎤 This Thursday: STORIE returns for Spring with new prose works from GRACE BEARD, LAURA BLAKE, JAKE TRELEASE & BEN WADDINGTON

🎟️ Last few tickets available at the link in bio. We want 🫵 there!

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🎤 Head to Kilder Bar for our Springtime STORIE session & hear new work from another scintillating line-up of writers including GRACE BEARD, LAURA BLAKE, JAKE TRELEASE, & BEN WADDINGTON.

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✍️ BEN WADDINGTON has lived in Moseley since 1994 and has been leading guided walks around Birmingham and beyond since 2006, researching and revealing the city's unremembered stories. He is the author of ‘111 Places in Birmingham that You Shouldn't Miss’.

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🎤 Head to Kilder Bar for our Springtime STORIE session & hear new work from another scintillating line-up of writers including GRACE BEARD, LAURA BLAKE, JAKE TRELEASE, & BEN WADDINGTON.

🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

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✍️ JAKE TRELEASE is a writer from South Shields who runs Tales About Nowt, a radio show about North East writing. He is currently working on a collection of short fiction about regional identity in post-industrial towns.

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✍️ LAURA BLAKE is a Birmingham-based writer of English and Jamaican descent. Her debut novel, ‘Go Home Birdie Brown’ (HarperFiction), will be published in June 2026.

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✍️ GRACE BEARD is a writer and editor from Birmingham. She has worked in travel journalism for ten years and is currently the travel editor at Time Out. Outside of journalism, she's slowly but surely working on a collection of short stories.

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🗣️♦️ We returned to the mic last week as STORIE began it's 2026 slate with four incredible new works from ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL each story invisibly linked to each other by ghosts, folklore, & personal & cultural histories. Another great night!

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🎤 Few weeks left until our first STORIE of 2026, featuring another full West Midlands based line-up including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL.

🎟️ Tickets are currently SOLD OUT, but please check the Eventbrite (link in bio) for any returns

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🎤 Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 & another eclectic night of experiments in prose featuring a full line-up of West Midlands-based writers including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL.

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