Upcoming Events
Annual Salon in Brussels September 2025
When: 12-14 September 2025
Where: Full Circle Brussels
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Our Annual Salon will include three days of open mics, featured readings, workshops, and panels—interspersed with wine, cheese, camaraderie and engagement with our wonderful host city. Most of it will take place in the beautiful Full Circle event space in Flagey, Brussels' vibrant cultural Art Nouveau and Art Deco neighbourhood.
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In addition to Full Circle events, you’ll have the opportunity to take part in tours, writing in a local park, and a welcome dinner. For a taste of this event on a smaller scale, check out our Past Events page, where we detail the inspiring trial salon we held in September 2024.
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​Save the dates, and subscribe to our newsletter for updates on this and other events. Booking will open early in 2025 and tickets will be limited. We hope to see you there!
Pop-up Salon: Madrid
When: 16 October 2025, 7 pm GMT
Where: Desperate Literature
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EWS is travelling to Madrid to host an open mic salon in partnership with international bookstore, Desperate Literature. All are welcome!
We'll listen to excellent readings, drink wine and get to know writers from Madrid and across Europe in a friendly setting.
Further details will be made available nearer the time, including how to sign up to read and exact timings.
This will be a friendly and welcoming event - if you are planning on coming alone, don't worry! We will be in touch with everyone in advance and will arrange opportunities to meet/write/eat/book accommodation together around the evening event so that everyone meets new people and feels part of our community.
Ticket prices include wine and soft drinks.
We look forward to meeting you in Madrid!
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Book here.
Online Open Mic Salon
When:15 July 2025, 7-8:30 CET
Where: Online via Zoom (link sent on registration)
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Back by popular demand, our online open mic salon hosted by Kik Lodge. This event is free.
As always, we’ll talk books, get to know each other through an open mic reading, and take a highly serious and competitive quiz. This month’s quiz theme: Road Signs.
Reading spots have filled up, but we’d love for you to come along for the rest of the fun. BYO wine. We prioritise those who haven't read before, so make sure you subscribe to our newsletter to grab a reading spot next time! Book here.
When: 25 September 2025, 7pm CET
Where: Online
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Who’s Speaking to Us and How? Prose Writing Workshop
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This friendly and interactive workshop is for prose writers who want to take a fresh look at Point of View (POV) in their narratives. We’ll be looking at a range of available viewpoints and then concentrating on the ‘free indirect’ or ‘close third person’ style – a method that allows readers to follow the actions of characters whilst also sharing their interior perceptions and thoughts. We’ll be exploring a series of writing prompts that bring in location, language and culture and you’ll be taking away new writing that modulates between interior and exterior viewpoints. We aim to have fun! – and you’ll get a set of notes as an aide memoire to the main points of discussion.
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Graham Mort has published ten books of poetry and three volumes of short fiction. He has written for BBC radio and his flash fictions have appeared in many journals. His literary prizes include an Eric Gregory Award for poetry, the Bridport short fiction prize and the Edge Hill prize for a book of short fiction. He is emeritus professor of Creative Writing at Lancaster University, an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape, and a Higher Education Teaching Fellow. He has taught creative writing throughout the UK and internationally. See: grahammort.com
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