The guest speaker at the next Writers’ in the Library session on October 9th is author Chloe Jacquet.
Chloë is a multicultural, multifaceted, multi-slam winning spoken word artist based in Gloucestershire. She was 2017 Oxford Hammer & Tongue slam champion and reached the semi-finals of the National Slam Finals at the Royal Albert Hall in both 2018 and 2019.
With a preference for straight talking and a penchant for rhymes and opinions, Chloë’s poetry is both entertaining and meaningful. Her work deals with a wide variety of subjects, ranging from workplace discrimination and mental health, to the pressures placed on modern men, via her short term relationship with a biscuit.
As well as her own headline slots at poetry nights and festivals across the UK, she has supported artists such as Elvis McGonagall, Joelle Taylor and Hollie McNish and her work has featured several times on the BBC. She has been published in several magazines and anthologies and her poem “First Festival Back” was selected by the BBC to be included in a special archive at The British Library of Covid-related materials “for the benefit of the nation”.
Her first collection Take It By The Line is published by Black Eyes Publishing UK and is available now.
Located upstairs in Cirencester Library, sessions run for an hour on the second Monday of each month at 2pm. Tea and coffee are available, and the sessions are informal and friendly. You are sure of a warm welcome.
Somewhere Else Writers Group 