Online Speakeasy with Ulrike Durán Bravo

This event is now online - zoom links will be emailed to you.

Join us for an inspiring evening of creativity and connection! The event begins with a reading and Q&A session featuring guest writer Ulrike Durán Bravo to hear some work from writers living in Cornwall. The second half of the online event will be a relaxed open mic for you to share your work with other participants. Everyone's welcome, weather you're a writer who wants to share their work or if you just want to come and listen to some local talent.

This event is free, and online event. Please book a ticket so we know who's coming. 

If you'd like to read at the event, please email Lucy who is hosting, lucy@lucybeckley.com

Ulrike Durán Bravo is a German-Chilean writer and teacher, who lives in Cornwall, UK with her husband and children. She grew up moving between countries and learning languages, finding solace in a wide range of literatures. For most of her adult life she has worked as a teacher, sharing her love for words. In 2009 she earned an MA in Creative Writing from Southampton University with distinction. In 2024-25 she took part in the Literature Works mentoring programme WordSpace. Her short play Draco and Juno has been performed at the Berry Theatre. Ulrike’s short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines, including Solent Press, Cornwall Writers, and The London Reader. Her poetry has appeared in the Holyer an Gof shortlisted Mordardh and Mordros, being part of the all-female Mor Poets collective; as well as in Steel Jackdaw, Inkfish and Porridge magazines. Her favourite tree is the Monkey Puzzle and she loves swimming in the sea.

Publications in the last 5 Years

2025

Poetry:

Dear Seal-People and Breeding Storm Petrels: Volume 17 Steel Jackdaw Magazine Edition 17 is Available to Buy. Edition 17 — Steel Jackdaw
Ode the Palta: Porridge Magazine, Comfort Foods – Porridge

2024

Poetry:

Ode to the Palta: Amaranth Journal Home - Amaranth Journa
I Suggest Rock Pooling on Mother’s Day’; ‘Lately, the Hermit Flaunts Flamboyance’; ‘While Searching for Cowries, I see’ , Mordros: Sound of the Sea, Cornwall Writers
Waiting: Inkfish Magazine Waiting – Inkfish Magazine
Mother Exile: longlisted for Heroica Poetry Prize Heroica Poetry Anthology — Heroica Women

Short Story

Starry Night: Cornwall Beneath and Beyond, Cornwall Writers

2023

Poetry:

‘Putting my Face into Water’, ‘Ode to the Belly-Board’, ‘sideways’, ‘Horizon Therapy’, ‘I Like to Remember’, ‘Golden Ball’: Mordardh: Surf Poetry, Cornwall Writers

Short Story:

‘There is Copper in Abundance’ exhibited at The Royal Cornwall Museum: Spirit of Cornwall exhibition.
'Kissing the Stars’ London Reader Vol 26: Plant Life Edition
‘Permission’: Homecoming Edition, Poolfrog Publishers
2022 ‘Kissing the Stars’: Cornwall Secret and Hidden, Cornwall Writers
2020 ‘There is Copper in Abundance’: Cornwall Legends, Curiosities and Misfits, Cornwall Writers