With the festive season round the corner, the team at MIR (The Mechanics Institute Review) warmly invites you to its first live Open Mic event of 2025 on Friday, December 5th at the Keynes Library, Gordon Square, from 6pm to 9pm. The event will include between eight to ten readings, both prose and poetry, from current Birkbeck BA and MA creative writing students, lecturers, and a special performance from Birkbeck alumni Charlotte Northall.
Charlotte Northall is a London-based writer whose work moves between the raw and the transcendent. Her debut, Practicing Dying, blends autobiography and cultural criticism to explore addiction, capitalism, and spirituality. She works with rough sleepers, supporting those living with addiction and dual diagnoses. Copies available via the press’s website at www.pilotpress.co.uk/catalogue or for wholesale distribution through Public Knowledge Books.
We look forward to your reading and seeing you there!
Charlotte Northall pic © Housemans Books (@housmans_books Intagram)