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Flash Fiction Competition Winners!

Congratulations to Karl Russell, Clare Kirwan & Clive Roberts, who took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place at our superb final
event of our Flash Fiction at the End of the World Competition. Competition was fiece and the readings were excellent, and our guest Judge, X-Men writer, Mike Carey, admitted it was hard to select the final three. Our winner, Karl Russell, will soon be in possession of a collection of signed books by Mike Carey. All finalists will now be published in an e-book with a foreword by Mike Carey.

Click on the link at the bottom of this page to read all the entries.

Here is Karl Russell's winning entry:

The Only Living Boy in New York

In the morning, when our lips were bruised from kissing all night, Nate gave me a going away present. It was a radio, tuned to an Argentinian station, so that I could listen to the comings and goings down there while I waited for him to come home. It was one of his great ideas, typical Nate, so sweet and thoughtful and never mind the fact that I knew less than a dozen words of Spanish.

From Spare Rib to Slutwalk

Liz Kelly, Helen Walsh, Bidisha and Helen Millne ask ‘Has the women’s movement really moved on?’

Constable Michael Sanguinetti, speaking in Toronto on crime prevention in January 2011 caused outrage with his comment, "I've been told I'm not supposed to say this – however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized." The response was a wave of 'Slutwalks', starting in Toronto on April 3rd, and then sweeping across America and Europe and to countries across the world, as hundreds of thousands of women, often dressed in the 'provocative' clothing that Sanguinetti sought to advise against, marched both in protest and in a move to celebrate their sexuality. The movement provoked controversy, not least of all within the women's movement itself, with some claims that the word 'slut' is too far gone and too mysogynistic to be reclaimed. Nevertheless, the women's movement seemed to be visible and on the march again. To explore this and many other aspects of feminism and the position and role of women today, WoW is delighted to have some of the leading names involved in the women's debate today to try and answer whether the movement has really moved on.

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99% of Nothing: Can Change Ever Come from Below?

Thursday 10th May, 6.30pm, The Bluecoat, £6/£4
Danny Dorling (Fair Play), Peter Hitchens (Mail on Sunday), and others talk about the recent round of protests in the face of coalition cuts, and seek answers to the questions the movement throws up.

In September 2011 a new movement 'Occupy' was born. With the slogan of 'We are the 99%', Wall Street itself came under siege. Like the Arab Spring that inspired it, Occupy soon spread, with camps springing up in cities across the world. In the UK Occupy had its biggest impact and highest profile when, forced back from Occupying the square mile of The City itself, they set up on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. Much murmuring and mayhem ensued, with a Dean resigning and the Cathedral nonsensically closing its doors for the first in many years. Tolerance was the by-word, while the protesters bought time and built a Bank of Ideas, and tried to spread the word and keep it all going. The movement argues for participatory democracy, with General Assemblies to decide on policy and action. But amidst the celebrity support (Radiohead and Russell Brand) the movement, accused of having no clear direction, came under increased pressure and police intervention. Now, outside of the main centres, the movement appears to have been forced back and the 1% are still holding all the cards. Our panel will discuss where it's now and whether Occupy could ever really mimic the Arab Spring and force change at the top from a movement below.

Benjamin Zephaniah Rebel Rant Reviewed

Reviews are starting to come in from Tuesday's Rebel Rant, a big hit on all accounts!

Remote Goat Review in full here

Even on the raised stage of the grandopulent concert room of St. George's Hall, renowned poet Benjamin Zephaniah seems down-to-earth and approachable, transparent yet complex. Flirtatious but feminist, he is an openly heterosexual man who joined Amnesty International's campaign against homophobia in Jamaica; a martial artist who appreciates the fact that the art he follows was created by and for women; an egalitarian who quotes Prince Charles. A man of many parts, then.

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Waiting for Brando

The Play is now Sold Out. To be notified of future performances you can sign up to the mailing list at www.waitingforbrando.co.uk.

Waiting for Brando is a two-act play written by Mike Morris & Steve Higginson. Its debut is at The Unity Theatre, Liverpool, from Tuesday 22nd to Thursday 24th May.

The play is set in December 1953 at a pivotal moment in time; ‘Crazy Man Crazy’ by Bill Haley and his Comets has just hit the Billboard top 40 – the first Rock and Roll song to get into the charts, and the age of the Teenager is about to dawn as Marlon Brando becomes the poster boy of his generation following his iconic appearance as Johnny Strabler in The Wild One.

Loyalties and friendships are tested in this fast tale of brotherhood and betrayal, secrets and showdowns. And all the time, Brando waits for his moment….

Below Decks – WoW Festival 2012

28^th April – 31^st May

Festival 2012

If Liverpool, a city of the sea like no other, were to set sail on one of the many ships that have left its shores, Below Decks is where it would find itself. Below Decks, where George Garrett’s ‘Subterranean Theatre’ puts in its nightly shift, is where WoW's annual Festival will celebrate all things below the water line.

Conrad’s crew of ‘Liverpool hard cases’ were ‘made of the right stuff’, and our merry crew of writers, artists and commentators, are scrubbing the decks and raising the mainsail, getting shipshape to pipe you aboard.

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From Spare Rib to Slutwalk

99% of Nothing: Can Change Ever Come from Below?

Benjamin Zephaniah Rebel Rant Reviewed

Waiting for Brando

Below Decks – WoW Festival 2012

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