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A Night for the Unpublished

17 April 2007
The Norwegian Church – 7.00 pm
£3 / £2

Are you an unpublished writer living in South Wales? Are you eager to get your work heard and to practice your performance skills in front of a live audience? Well, if you are, then our Night for the Unpublished is for you. As part of the BayLit Festival 2007, Academi is giving you the unpublished writers of South Wales the chance to step into the limelight. Your MC for the evening will be Lloyd Robson.

Be amongst the first to hear exciting, original work by writers who may soon be taking centre stage in the literary scene in Wales.

For more information, or to book your place, call Academi on 029 2047 2266 or email post@academi.org.

Introducing your MC Lloyd Robson :

Lloyd is a poet and prose writer whose texts often spill over into typography, photography, visual art and performance. He is also a broadcaster, freelance typesetter and book designer, occasional journalist, visiting university lecturer, visual artist, workshop tutor, Writer–in–Residence, writing mentor and ’gun–for–hire’ text operative. Previously he has been employed as a Writer–in–Residence by several organisations including the University of Wales College of Newports’ School of Art, Media & Design. He is also Writer–in–Residence at the annual Cardiff Christmas market, held in the Hayes during November and December. Lloyd also hosts the annual poetry slam at the Hay–on–Wye book festival and is a contributing editor for Rattapallax magazine in New York.

Some of his work has been engraved into the streets of Cardiff and has been translated into, then published, in Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian and Japanese. His work appears regularly on radio and television, including the BBC, Channel 4 & New York’s WNYE-FM.

Lloyd’s photography has been used by various publishers in their book designs. He received an Arts Council Writer’s Bursary to complete the collection Bbboing! and Associated Weirdness (Parthian 2003).