Inside.Out Open Mic for Writers

Bring your writing - poetry, flash fiction, short story, performance poetry, life writing etc - to read at the open mic (up to 6 mins max), or come as audience to hear what's brand new. To read, just sign up on the open mic page as you arrive.

A star performance - high octane and fully mindful - is guaranteed when your guest musician is Caitlin Smith.

"Caitlin Smith's stage presence is as enormous as the Empire State Building, her voice as smooth as Baileys. This jazz singer, it seems, can handle anything with the greatest of ease, from Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most ,to Burt Bacharach's swingier What the World Needs Now, or the more introspective Trains and Boats and Planes. An icon of the New Zealand music industry, Caitlin has a strong reputation as a talented jazz singer and as a vocal coach for other professional singers." - Mark Laurent, Saturdays at One2one

Caitlin writes songs and poems, and in her hands, a song transforms into a sung story. https://www.facebook.com/caitlinsmithmusic/

Five Word Challenge: Employ the five words - Pressure - Tree - Blood - Mahi (work) - Forever in a short piece of writing < 50 words all up and place in the Red Box of Mystery for randomly-awarded book prizes & chocolate bars. Plus, scoop up fliers on lit events & competitions.

Inside.out thanks Chris Priestley and the team at Cafe One2One, and the fine people at the NZ Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa Auckland Branch, for their support of this open mic writing event in Tamaki Makaurau .https://authors.org.nz/

Bring koha for our hard-working musician/s please! With your emcee Anita Arlov. ph 021 100 40 77.

See you there!