STST Word Club | The Way of the Roadwytch x Festival of Community

STST Word Club | The Way of the Roadwytch x Festival of Community

Join us for an evening of readings on plantlore, mythmaking and rural and urban folk traditions. For a Festival of Community special, readers will respond to and interpret the intricate world of artist Libby Bove, inviting the audience to step further into the exhibition.

Word Club at Staffordshire St is a space for collectives, curators and audiences to explore cross-disciplinary writing, from prose and non-fiction, to academia and poetry.

Line up:

Intro text from Elizabeth Bailey
Rowe Irvin
Hattie Morrison
Katrina Nzegwu
Phoenix Yemi

Info:

Thursday 24th September
19.00 - 22:00

Tickets:

£3 low-income
£6 general
£9 pay it forward

If you would like to attend but the cost is prohibitive, please get contact info@staffordshirest.com. If you are financially able, please consider choosing a pay-it-forward ticket. This helps keep events accessible to all.

Rowe Irvin | @bog__daughter
Rowe Irvin is a writer and artist. In 2025 she was named one of The Observer’s Best New Novelists. Her work has appeared in Prototype, Southword and The Stinging Fly. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester. Her debut novel, Life Cycle of a Moth, was published by Canongate Books in 2025, and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Award and longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.

Hattie Morrison | @hattie.mrrsn
Hattie Morrison is an artist working across sculpture, film and text. Based in rural Wales, her bilingual practice explores the notion of ’truth-telling’ and narrative inheritance. She has exhibited film at Tate Modern, art-books at The Scottish Poetry Library and London’s I.C.A, and completed residencies at Shakespeare & Company, Kyoto Art Centre, Ty Newydd and Arvon. She is signed by Erika Price from the C.A.A.

Katrina Nzegwu | @koenzegwu
Katrina Nzegwu is a London-based curator and writer. Her work skates and interrogates the line between the political and the absurd; galvanising dark humour, and often using referential or archival material to explore personal and collective memory and experience. Preoccupied with semi-fictional mythology, intergenerational storytelling, and embodied knowledge, Nzegwu has written for publications including Elephant magazine, émergent magazine, The London Magazine and Burlington Contemporary.

Phoenix Yemi | @phoenixyemoja
Phoenix Yemi is a Nigerian-British poet, artist, and curator whose work is dedicated to resistance through the erotic. Rooted in surrealist traditions of liberation, she works at the intersections of body and earth, desire and dissent, reimagining language to summon new ways of being. She has performed across London in spaces including Tate Modern, the Barbican, and the Serpentine. She writes A Worm Moon for Worms Magazine and is the founder of Black Geographies.

About the exhibition:

The Way of the Roadwytch will be the centrepiece of Staffordshire St’s annual Festival of Community 2026: a collaborative programme of workshops, events, exhibitions and drop-ins that will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets. Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Our Accessibility Pack is available here.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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