Hello from Paul Amber and the Sheffield team!

Welcome to the site for creative writers, open mic and more!

Since we started this site in Feb 2007 we have made lots of new friends and inspired many to start writing poetry and stories, not to mention the enthusiasm shown from talented local singers !

We would like to offer a big thank you to all who are supporting us with this voluntary project and have helped us to achieve our success so far. It is so good to see so many people now showing an interest!

We have now established the regular "Open Mic  Roadshow" which has proved to be really popular at the Roebuck Tavern, it is planned to stage this on a monthly basis!  Special events are also in the pipeline for other locations!

Hopefully you will now be aware of our new permanent internet domain which is listed in all the major search engines and verified by Google:  www.wordsandthings.co.uk, it is also easy to remember.  Please spread the word and tell your friends to visit us!

We will always welcome more contributions to the WaT pages from any creative writers (old hands and first timers) and would like to invite all our "browse only" visitors to take the plunge by submitting something, we can't wait to hear from you!

Why not record a spoken version of your poem (Mp3 format) and send it to us for our "words to hear"?

Please do keep  sending us you poems, stories, and also hopefully some sadly neglected Philosopy and Lyrics!  Don't forget your photos are welcome as well in our Photo gallery (which is now very easy to upload to!) and why not take a look at our new video section with all new content including music video and clips from our live events! 

Don't forget that you are invited to our next live event - "Open Mic Roadshow" on the 24th November at the Roebuck Tavern in Sheffield! Why not bring your own poetry or stories to read at this really entertaining evening! Can you sing or play an instrument? It would be great to see you perform on the night!

Please come along even if you have a remote interest in the spoken word and song and would enjoy a night out with a real difference!. All ages and performance styles are welcome! don't have anything to read but fancy a bash on the mic, don't worry we will have lots of poetry and other stuff to read. Just turn up, put your name on our performance list and wait for your turn! UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVE POTENTIAL ! Listen to our previous events here!

Open Mic Roadshow presents an entertaining celebration of the spoken word and song, it is your chance for your voice to be heard on the web as we will digitally record the entire evening, this will be featured as a high quality stream on words and things sound archive in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile we hope you add us to your favourites list as you can be assured that over the coming weeks there will always be something new!

Paul Amber and the W a T team    

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