Write to Speak Presents Kate Fox News at Hull Truck on Wednesday 12th January 2011 Show starts at 7.45pm Tickets £10 Hull Truck Box Office (01482) 323638

Write to Speak, Yorkshire's first theatre based spoken word night, returns to the studio space at Hull Truck theatre for its final night of the season on Wednesday 12th January to present Kate Fox News, with support from 4 local up and coming female poets. The evening will be hosted by Joe Hakim and Mike Watts. She once made the news, then she wrote the news, now she writes poems about it. But what is news? Everybody's life story is a news story, this is Kate's. She wished Tony Blair was her Dad, found out the Yorkshire Ripper worked for her Auntie and watched the Satanic Verses being burned through the window of the 576 bus.

Kate's journeys through news saw her looking for a voice, a father and a snappy headline. This is the story of what she found and what she lost.

Kate Fox is a Newcastle based writer, comedian and poet. Poet in residence on Radio 4's Saturday Live, she has written and performed poems for BBC2's Daily Politics Show and BBC2's Chelsea Flower Show coverage, as well as for conferences, schools and festivals. '... funny, quirky and a wonderful writer': Sarah Millican 'Had the whole audience laughing': Daily Telegraph Supporting Kate will be 4 new local female poets; Catherine Scott, Kerry-Joe Pulford, Michaela Bamber and Pam Scobie, bringing a diverse range of entertaining and thought provoking performance poetry to the Studio Theatre stage.

Co-produced by New Writing North and ARC Write to Speak is funded by Hull City Council.

Links: www.katefox.co.uk www.hulltruck.co.uk www.thisisUll.com Media Contact: Cilla Wykes Email: cilla@thisisUll.com Phone: (01482) 470829 Mobile: 07745 578380

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