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Elizabeth McGeown is a performance poet based in Belfast and is twice-running All-Ulster/Northern Ireland Poetry Slam Champion, finalist in the 2016, '17 and '18 All-Ireland Slam and the 2017 Farrago UK Slam Championships. She was the 'sacrificial' poet at the final of the All Ireland Poetry Slam 2015, also serving on the judging panel. She was chosen by judges from Dublin: UNESCO City Of Literature to take part in the Lingo Festival Slam 2015, placing third in the same competition in 2016. Her festival performances include Body & Soul, Lingo, Sunflowerfest, Stendhal, C.S. Lewis Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival she is a regular 'Cast Member' for Other Voices Alternative Spoken Word Cabaret.

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Waking Up | Notes on International Women’s Day

Elizabeth McGeown Mar 8, 2019 0

I first became aware of International Women's Day in 2010. I had friends in a theatre group and heard through the grapevine that they were putting on a play they had performed before: Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. Some of their…