Featured EVENTS
VDN4 28/8
Verbal Discharge North
Great readings, cold beer, the smell of lost dreams.
Under the pavements of Harringey, rivers!
Curtain at 7:30pm. Bar open till late.
£5
August 28th 2025
VD75 ERrOL TAKEs OVEr 5/9
We celebrate the publication of Something To Take Off The Edge by vacating the stage and letting Errol do his thing to full effect.
Doors 7pm
£12.99
September 5th 2025
cOMPLETE THE ARC
With Award-Winning author Rene S Perez II.
The Queens Larder, Holborn, classes will be every Saturday 12 noon till 2 for six consecutive weeks. One-to-one feedback. A chance to perform work at the legendary Club Verbal Discharge.
£150
Saturdays
October 4th - November 8th
Events
vdn4
28/8/25
All Good Bookshop
35 Turnpike Ln, Harringay Ladder, London N8 0EP
DOORS 7PM
Verbal Discharge North @ All Good Bookshop
35 Turnpike Ln, Harringay LadderN8 0EP
Doors 7pm
August rolls in, the tint of autumn on the foliage, nowhere does heartbreaking melancholy like Club Verbal Discharge.
Great readings, cold beer, the smell of lost dreams.
Under the pavements of Haringey, rivers!
Curtain at 7:30pm. Bar open till late.
Our new residency at All Good Bookshop continues. Lovely people. Local vibes. Same great readings.
vd75 5/9/25
errol mcglashan takes over
The Queens Larder
Holborn
WC1N 3AR
DOORS 7PM
We celebrate the publication of Something To Take Off The Edge by vacating the stage and letting Errol do his thing to full effect. Entry gets you copy of the book and if you ask nicely Errol might even sign it for you.
Complete the arc
A creative writing course
Award winning author Rene S Perez will introduce you to all the key elements of narrative craft enabling you to complete the arc of your story. Prose, poetry, scripts, spoken word…all forms welcome. In the relaxed setting of one of Bloomsbury's last remaining pub theatre rooms @ The Queens Larder, Holborn, classes will be every Saturday 12 noon till 2 for six consecutive weeks. One-to-one feedback. A chance to perform work at the legendary Club Verbal Discharge. Editorial advice from Insurgent Press. Oct 4th - Nov 8th. £150.
The Queens Larder
Holborn
WC1N 3AR
12pm-2pm
Every Saturday
October 4th - November 8th
Rene S Perez II
Scavenging (2024)
Two Twins (2022)
Seeing Off The Johns (2015)
Along These Highways (2012)
Winner of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award and the 2013 NACCS Tejas Award for Fiction
VDN1 Club Verbal Discharge North
Club Verbal Discharge goes North for our first night (kind of) in All Good Bookshop, Turnpike Lane. Great readings and draft beer from the Goodness Brewery mean it’ll be a brilliant night.
Stranger Than Fiction - Writer's Retreat
We move to a super secret location to get the words down for our next collaboration writing anthology: STRANGE THAN FICTION. The first volume will be around the theme of work. More details to follow.
VD72 CLUB VD's Sixth Birthday Party
On May 2nd
Queens Larder, Holborn
We turn six and do what six year old's do. Cake, baloons, poppers, clowns and a few readings inbetween.
VD71 Club Verbal Discharge
VD71 sees our residency in the Queens Larder move to a Friday for April which also happens to be the eve of Brian’s birthday. We had a full house last time, they’ll be hanging from the window cills in April!
VDE9 Club Verbal Discharge East
VDE9 begins our monthly residency in Horns of Plenty, Stepney Green. Levi will be reading from his granddad’s war journal, Hope will be reading something goth, Brian will be doing God knows what.
VD70
With tears in our eyes and pizza in our guts we say goodbye to Pontis and bring Club VD to the Queens Larder. Bloomsbury are ya ready?
Tickets here: https://www.insurgentpress.co.uk/shop/p/club-verbal-discharge-70
The Turnpike Torch
In collaboration with The All Good Bookshop, Turnpike Lane we are starting our own fanzine about books, writers and the beautiful beautiful people and places that make up Turnpike Lane. In the spirit of the fanzines of the 70s we’ll be getting the razor blades and glue out. All stories will be written on the day. Then we’ll photocopy the whole thing for mass distribution.
VDE7
Club Verbal Discharge goes East for a night of readings in The Horn of Plenty, Stepney Green.