Say Owt Slam feat. Maria Ferguson

21st February 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Say Owt Slam feat. Maria Ferguson
Friday 21st February, 7.30pm
Tickets are £8 or £13 (+ b/f) in advance (choose whichever tier you want to pay) and available from See Tickets.
All tickets £15 on the door.

*This is a seated show with all seating unreserved*

Say Owt Slam is a raucous evening of poet vs poet in a fun night of verse. Poets have three minutes to wow YOU the audience. Expect poetry with humour and heart, comedy and charisma, stories and sizzling spoken word!
Fancy slamming? Email info@sayowt.co.uk.
(We prioritise people living in York and the surrounding villages).

Featuring guest poet Maria Ferguson. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. Her debut collection, Alright, Girl? (Burning Eye, 2020), was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. On the stage, her one-woman show Fat Girls Don’t Dance (Oberon, 2017) won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show; Essex Girl (Oberon, 2019) was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award and won Show of the Week at VAULT Festival. She has been commissioned by the Royal Academy of Art, Stylist magazine, The Bronte Parsonage and BBC Radio. She is the Associate Producer of LIVEwire Poetry and teaches creative writing in a variety of settings. Her second poetry collection, Swell, will be published by Penguin in 2025.