BIKE SLAM June 17th, 7.30 – 11pm Free Oil your microphone, inflate your poetry and check the tension in your performance — Edinburgh Festival of Cycling and Inky Fingers are […]

PEACE SLAM! Friday May 17, 8pm, Summerhall As part of the Edinburgh Peace Initiative’s Peace Festival (www.epipeace.com), Inky Fingers is running a peace-themed poetry slam.As we’ve only got a 30 […]

Inky Fingers presents… ‘WE ARE POETS’. Tuesday 28th May, Doors open 7pm The Banshee Labyrinth, Niddrie St followed by free open mic! WE ARE POETS swept the boards of international […]

Welcome to Episode 6! Here you’ll find a mysterious text from an anonymous writer, that looks like it’s been written just for our deadline; a comic story or lesson from […]

Welcome to Episode 5! This is an episode of real contrast. We’ve a comic story from Andy Todd and a comic poem from Max Scratchmann, but also a surrealist script […]

Welcome to Episode 4, opening the second half of the event! We have for your delight Scots poetry from Georgi Gill, an ambient words and music track from Halsted Bernard, […]

Welcome back for Episode 3! It’s lovely to have you. There’s some wee  treats in here: flash fiction from Vicki Jarret, compact poems from Alan Waddell and Laura Bilton, and […]

Welcome to the second episode! We’re glad you’ve come back. Here we have poetry from Rosa Macpherson, Stuart Jones and JA Sutherland, a flash fiction grenade from Stu Anderson, and […]

Welcome, welcome, welcome! Welcome to our first ever Virtual Open Mic! It’s wonderful to have you here, it really is. This is the first of six episodes, each with new […]

Have you wanted to perform your work to a live audience? To learn how to write the poems that use sound, rhythm and rhyme to connect with people? To stop […]