Virtual Young Poets Takeover open mic with The Poetry Society

Hive poet Luke Worthy will be headlining a virtual Young Poets Takeover open mic with The Poetry Society on Friday 7th Nov!

Anyone aged 14-25 is welcome to join, regardless of how much experience they might have with poetry.

Open mic participants will be invited to share their work for up to two minutes. Please make sure that you are definitely available to perform before you sign up for an open mic slot!

Sign up here.

Luke Worthy is a queer poet and fiction writer from Sheffield. His work has been published in Poetry Wales, fourteen poems and Broken Sleep’s Masculinity: an anthology of modern voices (2024). In 2023 he was commissioned by the British Library to write a piece of children’s literature and was Runner-up in the New Poets Prize. Luke is a member of Hive Poetry Collective.www.lukeworthy.com