Upcoming Events
Annual Salon, Madrid
When: 25-27 September
Where: Ateneo de Madrid and other venues TBC
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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. It will take place in the beautiful Ateneo de Madrid event space and other venues across the city.
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In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to take part in tours, writing in a local park, and a welcome dinner.
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​Save the dates, and subscribe to our newsletter for updates on this and other events. Booking will open early in 2026 and tickets will be limited. We hope to see you there!
Pop-up Salon: London
When: 11 February 2026, 8 pm GMT
Where: Mimosa House
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EWS is hosting a salon with the theme of LOVE to celebrate our 2nd birthday.
We'll listen to excellent readings, drink wine and get to know writers from London 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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Booking open soon. Save the date!
Online Open Mic Salon
When: 28 January 2026, 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: 21 January 2026, 7pm CET and onoing
Where: Online
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Writing What Can't Be Said - with Mark Bowles
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Four writing workshops tracing how we write with what resists language: trauma, rage, madness, silence. Suitable for all levels.
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Join writer Mark Bowles (All My Precious Madness) for a series of four creative writing workshops that explore writing as a means of touching what language can barely contain — trauma, rage, madness, silence — and finding form, vitality, or even grace within that tension.
Across the four sessions, we’ll explore how writing can hold or accommodate that which is “too much.”
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Through talk, reading, laughter, silence and cunning, these workshops invite you to approach your own truth; not to explain or fix it, but to give it rhythm, shape, and voice.
Above all, we will seek to honour the emotional and existential intensity that fuels art.
Sessions can either be taken as a course or as individual sessions, as you choose.
Level: Suitable for novices and experienced writers alike, the only criteria is that you bring along something of your body and soul.
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More details and booking here.
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