Wildfire Words presents free international Zoom events to celebrate outstanding writers we publish and record audio for our online anthologies. Places can be booked in advance and the link to each event is emailed as soon as a ticket is ordered plus reminders near to the date.
Recording events are open mics for writers published in, or submitted to, Wildfire Words to read their work. That produces the audio for which this ezine/website is renowned.
Next events
Saturday 31 January 2026
11 am London Time (UTC+1)
7 pm , London Time (UTC+1)
Reserve your private, open mic or audience place
Audio recording online on Zoom
11am bookings are for PRIVATE recordings. You will be sent a 10-minute time slot between 11 am and 12:30pm.
Your text will be shown on screen while you read.
Reserve your private recording place
7:00 pm event is an OPEN MIC recording session for writers of Short Comic Verses. Free audience tickets are also available for friends and family invited by the writers.
Your text will be shown on screen while you read.
Reserve open mic or audience places.
Saturday 7 February 2026
7 pm, London Time (UTC+0)
Reserve your audience place
Winners Showcase for Audio Book Competition
The prizewinners, and shortlisted writers in our first annual audio-book competition will be reading some of the works that made them winners. They include 4 prize-winners who have each gained a cash prize and will have their winning books of text and audio published by Wildfire Words during 2026.
Major Past Events
Saturday 13 December 2025
7 pm, London Time (UTC+0)
Reserve your audience place
Winners Showcase for Conflict & Collaboration competition
The prizewinners, shortlisted, and longlisted writers in our sixth annual single-poem competition will all be reading the poems that made them winners. Among these 17 poets are two first-prize winners, one for best audio, one for best text. They are from opposite sides of the Atlantic, with contrasting voices and approaches to the theme.
Saturday 20 September 2025
7 pm London Time (UTC+1)
Launch of Waves at the arboretum audio book by Howard Timms plus friends and OPEN MIC
An audio book has two big advantages over print — it saves cutting down trees to make paper and readers can see and hear the author’s work. So what better topic for a poetry audio book than trees and how they relate to highs and lows in the author’s life?
Audience members agreed with that during the discussion at the end and some supported the idea by reading their own work in the open mic — not necessarily about trees.
For free access to this audio book, click on this link.
Saturday 30 August 2025
7 pm London Time (UTC+1)
UKRAINE Open Mic Online on Zoom
Writers in the Ukraine Anthology shared with other writers and audience, by reading from their text already published in Wildfire Words.
Reader’s text was shown on screen while they read.
Saturday 19 July 2025
7 pm , London Time (UTC+1)
Winners’ Showcase for our third Limerick competition
All winners of prizes or commendations in this competition celebrated their success by reading and recording their limericks for an anthology with audio published later in July.
Saturday 31 May 2025
7 pm only, London Time (UTC+1)
Annie Ellis launches her audio book Tempo of Colour with OPEN MIC, in a free Zoom launch
Annie and friends will show the extra rhythm and colour that audio can add to poetry supported by an open mic including distinguished audio poet Kate Copeland and the publishing team Marilyn & Howard Timms.
First come/first served audio places available.