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SUPERCULTURE PRESENTS: "The biggest spoken word night in London for women" (Evening Standard) and shortlisted for Best Spoken Word Night in the UK (Saboteur Awards, 2017), That's What She Said showcases the best new writing and performance by women, featuring iconic and emerging authors with a mix of performance, poetry, storytelling, slam and more.

Speaking on the night:

Headliner Victoria McNulty is a poet and spoken word artist based in Glasgow. Her work has been circulated by BBC the Social, Speculative Books and Literary Orphans, while she has performed at a number of festivals throughout the country including the BB6 Music Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Belfast’s Feile an Phobail. Victoria is the current Sonnet Youth Slam Champion, with a heartfelt and hard hitting delivery that has lead to her performing alongside seasoned performers including Liz Lochhead, Kate Tempest, Darren ‘Loki’ McGarvey and Hollie McNish. She will be performing an extract of her debut long form show Confessionals, produced by Sonnet Youth, and accompanied by Glaswegian folk musician Abi Normal.

Mel Bradley (@meljbradley) creative genius with the attention span of a gnat. Performance poet, writer, actor, designer, burlesque and drag artiste. General show-off-know-it-all, that sparks magic from her fingertips. An unapologetic outspoken queer feminist performer, she has just finished her term as Community Writer in Residence with The Rainbow Project, Derry and the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin. In 2014 at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival she was a recipient of the Eva Gore Booth Award for Best Female Performance in Life and Love - Lesbian Style. A former All-Ireland Poetry Slam finalist and the current Tyrone Poetry Slam Champion. She can be found performing regularly with The Monday Night Cure, Derry and Red Pill, Belfast and has been a featured performer at various festivals including Stendhal, Body & Soul, CreatEVE & Women Aloud NI.

Jess Glaisher (@jglaisher) is a writer and performer living in London. She is a queer feminist and activist, whose writing focusses on LGBTQ+ character representation, mental health visibility, and the lives of women. Her story ‘Destiny’ appears in For Books' Sake’s anthology ‘(Re)Sisters’. Her work has also appeared in Novelty Magazine and on Dear Damsels. She is currently working on a novel, Dear Lina, a speculative piece on the subject of inheritance. She writes alongside an incredible, inspiring creative collective of women who met through the Write Like a Grrrl course. And (because she wasn't quite busy enough already) she has recently started performing as a drag king. She is often to be found procrastinating with cake. 

Grace Flahive (@toomanystories) is a London-based Canadian writer of contemporary fiction who has published stories about shrimp bibs, VR headsets, cats named Gazpacho, and more. Her latest novel You Must Be Bathtub follows a transatlantic chase to recover a priceless USB drive, the only item that can spoil a blackmail plot against a young female tech CEO. The novel is seeking an agent, and Grace is seeking to eat brunch with Beyoncé by 2024. 

EMY (@emypmate ) a 28 year old Spoken Word Artist and Musician born and raised in Essex. On a personal mission to raise awareness and de stigmatize the negative viewpoints surrounding mental health, EMY’s honest writing approach and dark humour delves into the minds of everyday people as well as her own wired brain. Describing herself as “Passionate, Chaotic and Scruffy” EMY’s relatable stories and electric performance is already proving to be very popular on the London poetry and Spoken word scene.

Annum Salman (@writeroholic) left the PR world in Pakistan to travel to the UK for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Surrey. She is currently in the midst of writing her debut novel. As a spoken word poet, she'll often be found reciting on stages across UK, hopefully making you think. 

Inci Atrek is a writer and editor living in London by way of California, Ireland, Singapore, and France. Her poetry has appeared in The Wellesley Review, North Central Review, and Columbia Journal, among others. She's previously performed at The New Shit show in San Francisco, and SpokenWord at Au Chat Noir, Paris. 

WHAT THEY SAY...

"To put it bluntly, I'd never come across a spoken word night with such a fantastic lineup. 'How have I never come across this before?', I kept asking myself, 'this is everything I've ever wanted from a night out...'

I was blown away. I left feeling inspired, with renewed confidence in my own abilities, and almost missed my tube stop on the way home trying to write down scraps of poetry and prose.

Not only is That's What She Said a great place to see talented literary performers, for everyone and not just women, but it provides a space for women to shout and scream their anger, their frustrations, their desires; a space without censorship, without objectification and without the dreaded “it must be her time of the month” quip. I think For Books’ Sake is doing some really important work." (Thanks SexyVeg for this recent review of one of our London shows!)

Open mic walk ups on the evening are welcomed but with limited places it might be advisable to email paul@forbookssake.net if you have a burning desire to speak 
out and speak up.

Get your tickets for only £7 now while you can, or come along on the night for £10 on the door. 

And remember - For Books' Sake is a volunteer led, community organisation so all your pennies will be going back into championing women writers!