FRUIT SALON - Readings & Art @ The Hoxton

Ready to share your Creative Fruits?

Writer/performer Demi Anter (as seen at Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic and EdFringe) hosts the autumn edition of FRUIT SALON, a new night combining the best of poetry open mic, interactive art salon, and quirky community space, in the swanky Hox Wintergarden.

What to expect?

Our event on November 5th features: a short performance by your host, open mic slots, special audience games and prizes, and an art raffle featuring ceramics from @volistudio, books by Cat Hepburn, and more artists to be announced.

How does it work?

• Sign up for an open mic slot in advance for a reduced ticket.
• Eight slots are available per event, with four slots reserved for attendees of Creative Fruits Mornings, the monthly workshop at the Hoxton.
• Each open mic slot is five minutes.
• Readers are welcome to share work in any language (the night is primarily hosted in English).
• All types of writing are encouraged, from page poetry to spoken word to fiction, essays, scripts, travel writing, you name it.
• The only thing we don't want to see is AI-generated writing, and anything racist, sexist, fascist, ablist, etc.

The aim of FRUIT SALON is to create a fun, high-energy, and supportive event for writers of all experience levels and backgrounds across Berlin.

We can't wait to see your work, whether it's something brand new, something highly polished, or something you've left in a drawer for years and forgot about until right this second.

Silly, serious, overly ripe, or not ripe enough: FRUIT SALON is ready for you!

About your host:

Demi Anter is an award-winning writer and performer, with work spanning poetry, creative nonfiction, script- and playwriting. She has been published in the US, Europe and the UK by Magma, Cheerio and The Times (UK), and has performed poetry at festivals around the world. Her teaching focuses on the power of writing from personal experience, and she has regularly teaches for the Royal National Theatre, London's Irish Cultural Centre, and YEN, among others. Her poetry collection Small Machine, which documents her first years in Berlin, was published by Write Bloody UK in 2022. Chanel Miller called it, "Strikingly luminous and soothing." Musa Okwonga called it, "Tender, visceral, beautifully vulnerable."

About Cat Hepburn:

Cat Hepburn is a Scottish screenwriter, author and poet working across screen, stage and page. She has written for British TV dramas, sketch shows and soaps, alongside award-winning short films recognised by the Royal Television Society and nominated for Prix Europa. Her solo show #GIRLHOOD debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim. Cat reached more audiences with books such as Dating & Other Hobbies, and her sapphic romantasy novel, I Kissed a Werewolf and I Liked It which was published in 2025. Her latest collection of poetry and short stories, Graveyard of Skinny Jeans came out earlier this year. You'll have a chance to win both books at the next Fruit Salon!

About @volistudio:

Lisa Vogel is a Berlin-based ceramic artist. Experimenting with texture, color, and illustration, her work through @volistudio takes inspiration from nature and the elements.