cooking up connection and community through literature and spoken word
Word Kitchen develops events, workshops and networks to grow connection, confidence and wellbeing through literature, story-sharing and storytelling.
“We believe that whatever your age, background and story everyone is capable of finding their voice on the page.”
Word Kitchen nurtures current and emerging writers at different stages of their writing journeys. Our aim is to create environments which allow writers to share work, support each other, connect and create. We want to attract a diverse range of writers and voices both in terms of material and backgrounds.
“By shaping and sharing our stories, we come to see ourselves as empowered authors who can change our points of view and write our future narratives. Through sharing stories we learn that we are not alone, that we belong, and in the process we not only become more human, but more humane.”
Exeter Phoenix
November 12th Open Mic - get in touch if you would like to read, or come and listen to some wonderful and thought-provoking prose extracts and short stories. Bookable via Word Kitchen.
Brook Kitchen
Our regular events at Brook Kitchen in Budleigh Salterton continue with a Poetry Open Mic event on October 23rd. Please email David - sidmouthdavid@outlook.com – to book slots. More info on the EVENTS page.
Our Winter Fandango is another key date for your diaries – November 20th at Brook Kitchen. A night of irreverent fun and poetic merriment with Ed Tripp and Chris White, and additional festive treats! More details on the EVENTS page.
All open mic events are bookable via Word Kitchen.
Open Mic events at Brook Kitchen, Budleigh Salterton and Exeter Phoenix
Word Kitchen hosts one prose and one poetry event each quarter in the Brook Kitchen cafe with delicious food and drink on offer. We attract an impressive and inspirational array of writers from near and far, some reading from published novels and poetry collections, some sharing work in progress, some stepping up to the mic for the first time.
In Exeter, our prose open mics take place each quarter.
For all our tickets, go to WORD KITCHEN
For more information have a look at our EVENTS page up the top; to book a place to read or get in touch: sidmouthdavid@outlook.com
Creative Writing Sessions
All of us are made of stories
Word Kitchen offers a range of one-off sessions and courses (both face-to-face and online). There we get words down on paper and, maybe, share them with each other. No writing experience is necessary, and everyone is welcome.
Pippa Marriott has taught for over thirty years, and runs creative writing workshops in schools, colleges, prisons and communities. She also writes and directs for the theatre.
“Pippa provides a supportive, non-judgmental, non-competitive environment in which to practise writing and develop skills irrespective of one’s level of experience or ability.”
“It’s the highlight of my week!”
“It lifted my spirits up and encouraged me to carry on learning new skills”
“Pippa always holds us together so lovingly and beautifully.”
Dunkeswell Youth Club Project
A series of drop-in sessions with a range of wonderfully imaginative young people in this thriving youth club.
We developed characters, we created settings and understood how important a sense of place is. We wrote dialogues. We thought about different genre. We ate pizza, and we chatted about stories and books and ones that we love and what we enjoy about reading.
