Spineless 3 Announcement!

We are excited to announce that our 3rd Spineless Authors' event will take place on the 11th September and will feature a science fiction double bill of authors Stephen Oram and Temi Oh. Our regular artist @Toadlunch has accordingly created this stunning Penguin Science Fiction homage. Seethe and reel at the beauty of the thing!

The night itself will, as usual, be open mic and therefore not 'themed', but if you were thinking of performing and happen to write in the speculative vein, this may be a good time to step forth. Either way, we look forward to seeing you there.

Stephen Oram is one of the writers for SciFutures and co-created the Virtual Futures Near-Future Fiction series for which he is now lead curator. He is a member of the Clockhouse London Writers and a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Stephen is the author of the novels Fluence and Quantum Confessions, as well as two short story collections.

Temi Oh graduated from King’s College London with a BSci in Neuroscience and in 2016 received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her debut novel, DO YOU DREAM OF TERRA-TWO?, was published by Simon & Schuster on March 7^th 2019

Spineless 2!

Spineless Authors' Night No 2 has happened! Sadly, Sophie Mackintosh was unable to attend due to ill health but we managed to make the night a huge success nonetheless. We'd like to say a huge thank you to those who attended for being such a supportive audience and of course to this month's readers. They were...

Miranda Roszkowski

Miranda is crowdfunding the book '100 voices'.
100 years after getting the Vote, 100 female writers share their story. You can find out more about it here.



Stefan Nicolaou

Stefan runs a writing group at Pages of Hackney, who are soon to release an anthology of their work through their own Clapton Dragon Press. For updates visit @claptondragonpress

Harriet Smith Hughes

Harriet is a product designer and ux writer at @meet_cleo and one of three editors at literary magazine The Eyot. Her recent essay 'Regarding Susan Sontag' was recently published in Another Gaze and can be read here.

Kate Smalley Ellis

Kate is a short story writer represented by Matthew Marland at RCW. Her work will appear in the forthcoming '100 Voices'.

Rachel Renee

Rachel is a North American photographer, calligrapher and author recently transplanted to the UK. Her work can be seen here.

Amy Foster

Amy will also appear in '100 Voices'. This was her first public reading.

Tracey J Boothe

Tracey writes poems, songs and educational children's stories. Her book The Angel's Smile can be bought here.

Joel Kosminsky

Joel writes fiction and memoir, which he describes as 'tales and experiences of a world long gone'. A talk he delivered to Nunhead Labour Party can be read here.