OPEN MIC PODCAST - episode four Open Mic Podcast

Episode Four of Open Mic Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Alfie Prendergast @AlfiePrenderga1
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*CONTENT WARNING* There are several poems, from the end of the second intro and until about the 28 minute mark, which contain references to rape and sexual assault. 
 
Thank you to the fantastic readers in episode four, please search out and support their work:
 
Hannah Levene
poet and one of the editors over at @JournalFruit
https://www.livingwage.org.uk/news/poem-basket-goods-hannah-levene
 
Inga Vesper - @wekesperos
The Long, Long Afternoon was published on 4 February by Manilla Press and is available in all good bookshops and online. There is also an audibook available. 
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-long-long-afternoon-the-most-atmospheric-and-compelling-debut-novel-of-the-year/9781838772260
 
Georgia Leishman - @GeorgiaLWriter
Georgia Leishman is a writer and video creator.
Find her website here:
https://www.gleishmanwriter.com
 
Edwin Stevens - @irmavepmate
Edwin’s debut novel Seagulls is published by Very Bon Books and is available, amongst other work, at:
https://edwinrstevens.com
 
Faye Alexandra Proctor – @FayeAlexandraR1
Faye is the poetry Editor for @smallleafpress
  
Aimee Bea Ballinger – @BurningHouseBo1
Aimee runs Burning House Books, a Bookshop with a focus on art, experimental writing + counterculture based in Finnieston, Glasgow. She writes a brilliant newsletter and runs a Patreon bookclub
https://www.thewhitereview.org/contributor_bio/aimee-ballinger/
https://www.patreon.com/burninghousebooks
https://tinyletter.com/Aimee-BHB
https://www.burninghousebooks.com/pages/about
 
Lindz McLeod – @lindzmcleod
Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class Scottish writer and poet, who has been published by the Scottish Book Trust, Twist in Time magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, and more. Her work can be found at:
www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
She’s working on her second novel right now (which is a massive expansion of the short story read in this episode.
 
Benjamin Kritikos – @MunsonGoober
Ben’s writing can be found in his newsletter at:
https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com
as well as:
https://spaghettiforbrains.com/category/zines/
He also co-hosts a podcast: Spaghetti For Brains, which describes itself as a ‘Transatlantic pollical comedy podcast in which Ben and Norm make fun of capitalism because it’s stupid.’
During Ben’s piece he mentioned the activist organisation Sister’s Uncut. They can be found here:
https://www.sistersuncut.org
 
Thanks for listening!