Incwriters has brought events to festivals and venues across Europe, UK and the USA bring the finest critics, panels, workshops, poets and writers to audiences. Past events have included Poetry and Fiction Readings, How To Get Published Workshops, Journals and Publishing Panels. Incwriters have delivered events in London, New York, Manchester, Liverpool and at festivals across the North of England. From themed tours to one off events in conjunction with publishers and festivals. Incwriters continues to promote poets and writers who can engage live audiences on a project by project basis*. They are commited to live literature in the UK and abroad.Listed here are past and present events that Incwriters have worked on or in partnership with other organisations.

* From 2002-2008 Incwriters ran the successful INCWriters Client List. In that time it ran PR for 20+ poets from across the UK, did one off promotions for 300+ writers/poets and promoted the live events of 653 venues across the UK, Europe and USA. This list is now closed.

INCWRITERS WORKSHOPS 2009 took place in Dormouse and the Teapot, Kitschen, Woodend Mill 2, Mossley, Lancashire. The new workshop venue was a great success with participants, with beautiful views over the Tame River and the Huddersfield canal. The new venue provided workshops with the likes of Gaia Holmes (Comma Press), Ian Parks (Waywiser), Andrew Oldham (Route Books), Zoe Lambert (Comma Press), Helen Farrall between June – August 2009. The workshops included the sensory detail in poetry, re-writing, character based scene writing, narrative poetry, workshop for ongoing work, creating fictional characters and short stories. All workshops took place on a Saturday mornings and came with tea and refreshments.

Then in 2007 the Journeys Tour launched with artwork by Saatchi Winner, Lisha Aquino Rooney. The tour ran until 2009. In the tour, poets and writers bring to new audiences across the UK their views, their anecdotes, their humour and empathy with the Journey. They look at the personal & public journey, the fall from grace & the rise to power. In workshops, award-winning poets and writers will help new readers, poets & writers explore the mechanics of writing, the Journey from amateur to professional, from everyday to poetic. In talks, writers will debate the changing face of writing and the problems with being a writer today. The tour featured Gaia Holmes, Graham Mort, Pat Borthwick, Milner Place, Andrew Oldham and Ian Parks + Special Guests and led from the Incwriters successful 2006 tour, The Sea.

The Sea (2006) with artwork by Dan Lyons celebrated everything about The Sea, it started in Liverpool at the Everyman Theatre and ending in a bookshop in Whitby, the eight month tour took in some of the major ports of the North and the cities that thrived on them, from Liverpool to Manchester. The tour promoted the work of Pat Borthwick, Ian Parks and Milner Place, supported the work of Andrew Oldham (Liverpool), Peter Lewin (Lytham), Geraldine Green, Marita Over and Josephine Dickinson (Penrith) and Chris Firth (Whitby). Fusing national poets and local poetry before audiences. A live recording made of the primary poets on the tour is now available.

Then in 2006, Incwriters supported Tadeeb International at Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Festival first Mushaira with Aslam Kamal and Michele Roberts. The Festival welcomed leading Pakistani Poet and calligraphic painter, Aslam Kamal on a rare visit to England. Celebrating Ilkley’s Urdu, Hindi, English, Bengali and Gujerati poetry reading – with translations for English speakers.It welcomed some of the most eminent South Asian and English poets in the North. Incwriters worked in association with Bazm-E-Tadeeb International, Bradford Libraries,Archives and Information Service,The Incwriters Society and Leeds University Creative Writing Course. Then in October 2006, Incwriters returned to Ilkley to takepart in a debate about journals and publishing at the Ilkley Literature Festival in Yorkshire. The event aimed to help writers submit work for publication and was chaired by the writer, Char March and featured Tim Robertson (Magma), Shaun Levin (Chroma journal), Andrew Oldham (Incwriters) and poet Pat Borthwick.

This collaborative spirit came to the fore for Incwriters in 2005 when they went international and forged links with US poets and UK publishers. Incwriters worked with Slate (Cumbria), Manchester Libraries and Geraldine Green to bring Suffolk County’s First Poet Laureate, George Wallace (pictured), to the UK for a short tour that included venues in Leeds, Manchester and Cumbria. This led on from the 2004 tour that saw Peter Lewin take his poetry to the USA with his critically acclaimed collection, Silverdale. Peter read to audiences at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club before travelling to New Orleans. This was a a joint partnership between Kendal Press, Incwriters, The Bowery Poetry Club, Bob Holman. During the same year Incwriters sponsored Dave Wood’s poetry project in Northern Ireland which started in late August 2004 and finished in September 2004. It saw Dave go to Ireland to give readings, workshops and create new work. Incwriters was happy to sponsor this project and his columns regularly appeared in Incorporating Writing (ISSN 1743-0380) between 2004-2006. A blog of the project can be found here.