STORIE: EXPERIMENTS IN PROSE

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.

ELFRIEDE ATWAL is a writer studying narrative design in videogames. They spend most of their time either accidentally breaking their own games or working on their novel, a trans horror reimagining of ‘The Road’.

THOMAS GLAVE is the author of four books & the editor of an anthology, ‘Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles’. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, Glave's work has received numerous honours & awards including a prestigious O. Henry Award for his story ‘The Final Inning’. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, the University of Warwick, & a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is a trustee of Writing West Midlands, Peepal Tree Press, & an associate editor of Transition & Wasafiri.

SJ KIM was born in Korea & raised in the American South. Her writing on racial, gendered, institutional & political violence has appeared in Wasafiri, Oxford American, & The Hanok Review among other publications. She resides in the UK & teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick.

LYZA LAWAL is a writer & book blogger based in Birmingham. She grew up in London & was schooled in Nigeria. A lover of African classical literature & magical realism, she explores books through a cultural lens. Lyza has contributed to readin.mag (2025) and Project Myopia (2021). She is currently working on a short story collection.

TICKETS: Free

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KILDER BAR is located at 5 Shaw’s Passage, Digbeth with step-free access via the entrance on Shaw’s Passage.

For further enquiries about the event, please email storie@vocebooks.com