Scratch Club is a space where performance poets at any stage of their career can share work in progress and get constructive, supportive feedback on their performance from their fellow poets.

Apples and Snakes started running Scratch Clubs in 2010, in Newcastle, as a way of responding to local poets’ need for both skills development and community-building.

Clare Currie approached Jumped Up’s Creative Producer, Kate Hall, and suggested they ran a Peterborough Scratch Club together.

Our final session was on March 10th, 2020 facilitated by spoken word performer Sandy Wardrop, looking at mic technique and stage presence.

Sandy is a writer and stand-up poet from Peterborough where he has been ‘Good Shout' slam champion, and was runner up for Peterborough Poet Laureate, 2020. He has also been Brewer Slam champion in Lincoln, runner up at Hammer & Tongue, Cambridge and runner up at Say Owt in York.

Sandy's graphic poem ‘It’s Safe Here’ went viral in 2019, gaining 14,000+ shares across the UK, USA, Australia and the Philippines. He recently completed and filmed his first commissioned residency for the Syntax Poetry Festival.

In 2019, Sandy joined Eastern Angles Young Writers' Group and was a finalist in BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's New Voices competition. Sandy also holds an MA in Stand-Up Comedy from the University of Kent.

“This one particularly stood out” - BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (Juggy Sohal, Upload)

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Previous sessions have been led by Kirsten Luckins, Apples and Snakes Producer (North), and Hannah Davis, Associate Artist at Say Owt as part of the SYNTAX Poetry Festival.