Our seasonal reading night at Backhaus Projects invites people to share work around a theme. The series is aimed at shy writers in particular – anyone with half-finished poems in their notes app or a head full of potential plotlines. It’s an intimate space where you can share your own words or words you love, or simply listen and enjoy the ride. We welcome prose, poetry, fact, fiction, the personal and the political. Anything and everything, as long as it loosely fits the theme. Our themes so far have been tenderness, unhinged, and reverie. Edition 4 will take place in autumn 2025.

All photos taken by Alana Neumann ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚