Norwich poet makes Big Church competition final Norwich poet makes Big Church competition finalA spoken word artist and student minister from Norwich has made the final of the Big Church Festival Poetry Slam competition and hopes to be performing on stage at the event at the end of August. The competition is part of the spoken word stage at Big Church Festival . Big Church Festival is the numerically the largest Christian festival in the UK (last year it had over 35,000 people). “I was a fan of spoken word before I started writing and I began posting video content of my spoken words in 2014. They asked me to do a spoken word as part of a London mission.