The Common Press Poetry Night + Open Mic is quickly becoming a popular event for writers and poets to showcase their work and launch poetry collections.
Join us on 23rd September from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM for an evening of poetry & OPEN MIC, hosted by Ethan.
If you’d like to read at the poetry night, arrive at 7:00 PM to sign up. There will also be opportunities to sign up on the night and hop on stage. Please note that while we will do our best to accommodate as many readers as possible, we cannot guarantee that everyone on the list will have the chance to perform.
Schedule
7:00 pm - Doors open
7:15 pm - Ethan Opening
7:30 pm - Open Mic slots
7:45 pm - Break
8:00 pm - Noah performing
8:15 pm - Open Mic slots
8:30 pm - Conan Tan performing
8:45 pm - Open mic slots
9:00 pm - Ethan Closing
Featuring
Ethan Chua is a Chinese-Filipino poet, translator, and community organizer. Their chapbook, Sky Ladders, won the 2022 Frost Place chapbook competition. Their graphic novel, Doorkeeper, is available in Philippine bookstores.
Noah is an interdisciplinary poet, performer and critic based in London of mixed Arab heritage. Her writing often explores the boundaries between human and unhuman, interrogating the poetry within biology, automaton, and nature. She was an editor and co-wrote a column on diaspora poetry for Zindabad Zine, and is an alum of Roundhouse Resident Artists and Barbican Young Poets. She is also an alum of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Apples and Snakes’s The Writing Room and T.S. Eliot Prize Young Critics. Her work has been featured at Love Supreme, We Out Here, 05: Redacted, Shubbak, Camden Inspire and Bloomsbury Festivals, as well as in Ink, Sweat and Tears, orangepeel, Hecate, and Kalopsia mags.
Conan Tan is a Singaporean Chinese poet. He is the recipient of the 2024 Martin Starkie Prize, a finalist in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize, and the winner of Singapore's 2022 National Poetry Competition. His poems have featured or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Salt Hill, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2025 Barbican Young Poet, a 2025 Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference Scholar, and an undergraduate at the University of Oxford.