Liars' League

Shortlisted for Best Regular Spoken Word Night in the Saboteur Awards 2016!

Thank you all for all your nominations! Fans of Liars' League will be glad to know that the voice of the people was heard loud and clear, and thus we are now SHORTLISTED IN THE SABOTEUR AWARDS 2016! (We won the Best Spoken Word Night category in 2014, so we have form). Hurrah! Here's a bit more about us and our worthy competitors in the field, including flattering quotes in this Sabotage Spotlight article.

As a result of this honour we're already entitled to use the badge below ...

... but if you, like us, want to see the REALLY fancy graphic we'll get to display if we win (it might even be a gif!*faints*) then you can CLICK HERE to see who else is shortlisted and then vote for us (hopefully).

Since you have to nominate at least three categories for your vote to count, you could also do worse than pick Being Dad in the Best Anthology category, and Open Pen for Best Magazine - both are sprinkled liberally with LL alums, than which there is no higher recommendation. 

Voting is open until Tuesday 24th May. Fingers crossed!

Best Regular Spoken Word Night at Saboteur Awards 2014!

   
2014 must be our Year of Win - back in March we were named in The Guardian as one of the UK's Great Storytelling Nights and just last weekend we came back from the Saboteur Awards in Oxford clutching not one, but two gongs! (Well, sort of).

Sabotage Reviews covers the indie literature scene which is rarely featured in the mainstream press, including poetry, prose and spoken word, and their annual awards celebrate the very best stuff out there in each of those categories.

The first award was given to us for being Best Regular Spoken Word Night 2014, and the second really belongs to Cherry Potts of Arachne Press for her latest (best!) anthology Weird Lies, but it's made of Liars' League stories so we're counting it. Both awards were nominated and voted for by the public, so if you supported us, a massive THANK YOU.

Liars' League one of The Guardian's 10 Great Storytelling Nights!

... according to the paper's go-out-and-have-fun Do Something supplement, that is. And they should know. The article is linked here and in full below - it also mentions our compadres Stand-Up Tragedy (at which a few LL stories have had second outings) and several other nights around the country that sound well worth checking out ...

Ten great storytelling nights

 

The best places to listen to stories – or step up and tell your own

• How to start your own storytelling night
• Joe Dunthorne: Slickness doesn't help

• The Guardian, Saturday 22 March 2014

Tales of Whatever

Manchester

Now in its third year, Tales of Whatever has a dedicated following in the north west. Ten-minute tales, all true, are recounted live and without notes. It is also appearing at this year's Latitude festival in July.

Second Wednesday of each month, free, at Gullivers Ballroom, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LW. talesofwhatever.com

The Story Forge

Sheffield

Featuring open-mic and guest slots, this Sheffield fixture is a gloriously unpredictable jumble of folk tales, urban myths, riddles and poetry.

Third Tuesday of every month, £3 or pay what you can, at the Fat Cat, Alma Street, Sheffield S3 8SA.

timralphs.com

Standup Tragedy

London

This show alternates between the Hackney Attic and the Dogstar, Brixton. Performers explore tragedy through music, fiction, comedy, true stories and more, and the night culminates in a cathartic singalong. There's also an accompanying podcast available on its website. Monthly, £5 in advance, £7 on the door (£2 extra if you want a fanzine).

Hackney Attic: 270 Mare St, London E8 1HE.

The Dogstar: 389 Coldharbour Ln, London SW9 8LQ.

standuptragedy.co.uk

The Guid Crack

Edinburgh

Ceilidhs – exuberant Gaelic social events – are growing in popularity across the country, but they were originally far more focused on storytelling than the currently popular folk music and dancing. Reviving the old tradition, Scotland's leading story night meets on the last Friday of every month, with a £3 suggested donation, at the Waverley Bar, just off the Royal Mile on St Mary's Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TA.

scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Liars' League

Leeds, Leicester, London

Author Katy Darby's Liars' League enlists actors to read new short stories, from Lorrie Moore to Lydia Davis.

London: second Tuesday of every month, £5 on the door, the Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0PP.

Leicester: see website for dates, free, the Exchange Bar, 50 Rutland Street, LE1 1RD.

liarsleague.com