TAye Write: Diana Gabaldon – Outlander
Wednesday, 19 July, 2023, 6.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Kelvin Gallery Glasgow G12 8QQ Diana Gabaldon, the author of the bestselling Outlander series returns to Glasgow this July. This special event takes place in partnership with the world’s first academic Outlander conference. Diana Gabaldon will discuss the books that influenced her writing and the making […]
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Wee Write Family Day 2023
Saturday 3 May, 2023 Spark your little bookworm’s imagination. This jam-packed day is full of creativity and book-based fun at the Mitchell Library. With Horrible Histories, Dennis the Menace mischief and a flying visit from Bookbug, The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN See the full programme and buy tickets Chai Strathie – Scotland, […]
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Kids and young people
Aye Write: Stuart Braithwaite – Spaceships Over Glasgow
Sunday 28 May, 2023, 9.15 p.m. – 10.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3NY Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in Mogwai, one of the Glasgow and Scotland best loved bands. Spaceships Over Glasgow spans a delinquent childhood, rock star hedonism […]
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Saturday, May 27, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write: Pat Nevin – Football and How To Survive It
Sunday 28 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Pat Nevin’s memoir Football and How To Survive It takes us on a journey to the less glamorous side of football. rom Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he’s ever played. Then, in […]
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Aye Write: Neil Lancaster, Carole Johnstone and Fulton Ross – Something Dark Up North
Saturday 27 May, 2023 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In Neil Lancaster’s The Night Watch a lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost tip of Scotland. It was supposed to be his honeymoon, but now his wife will never see him again. The case is linked to several mysterious deaths, […]
Friday, May 26, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Ones to Watch – Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott, Wiz Wharton
Saturday 27 `May, 2023 11 a.m. – 12 noon The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Sarah Tomas, JJ Scott and Wiz Wharton will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event which platforms some of our best new writers. On […]
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Master Gardener at GFT
Friday 26 May – Thursday 1 June, 2023 Paul Schrader‘s latest film follows meticulous horticulturist (Joel Edgerton), who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate owned by a wealthy dowager (Sigourney Weaver). When he’s told to take on her troubled great-niece (Quintessa Swindell) as an apprentice, his life is thrown into chaos […]
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Thursday, May 25, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Cinema
Aye Write 2023: Jim Carruth and Liz Lochhead – The Tannahill Event
A Happy Makar Birthday Sunday 28 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Stgreet, Glasgow G2 3NY Join Glasgow’s two living laureates to celebrate two milestone birthdays. Liz Lochhead has just turned 75 and has been Makar for both city and country and has been awarded the Queen’s Gold […]
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Aye Write 2023 Arthur Snell: How Britain Broke The World
Saturday 27 May, 2023, 4.15 p.m. – 5.15 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Suchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 4NY How Britain Broke The World is by former senior British diplomat Arthur Snell. It critically assesses UK foreign policy over the past 25 years, from Kosovo in 1998 to Afghanistan in 2021, while also scrutinising British policy […]
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Aye Write 2023 – Ones to Watch – Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater
28 May, 2023 12.45 – 1.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Martin Griffin, Callum McSorley and Alice Slater will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event. Martin Griffin’s The Second Stranger finds a hotel worker trying to […]
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Aye Write 2023: Lesley Riddoch and Neil Findlay, The Future(s) of Scotland
Friday, 26 May, 2023 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Lesley Riddoch’s new book Thrive explores why Scots won’t simmer down and why they continue to talk about independence when there was a no vote a decade ago. Scotland is not as populated as Yorkshire, nor as wealthy as London. But it’s also not as Conservative, nor as […]
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Aye Write 2023: Coinneach MacLeod the Hebridean Baker
28 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Coinneach MacLeod is a Global TikTok baking sensation known as The Hebridean Baker and he is serving up a fresh selection of exciting new recipes, charming stories and breathtaking photography from the Hebridean Islands. The landscapes, stories, history and […]
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WestFest One Button Benny – Alan Windram
Alan Windram events with WestFest, ARC and The Children’s Wood Sunday, 4 June, 2023 2.30 p.m. Part of WestFest Children’s Book Programme in partnership with the Children’s Wood and ARC, University of Glasgow. ARC, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW Benny and his friends decide they need a bit more ‘robot dancing’ […]
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write 2023: Michael Pedersen and Tanya Frank, Memoirs of Love and Humanity
Thursday, 25 May, 2023, 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. In Boy Friends he […]
Aye Write 2023! Lennie Goodings ‘A Bite of the Apple’
Tuesday 23 May, 2023, 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Lennie Goodings joined Virago in the 1978 when “women wanted a voice, women wanted to understand their history, women wanted to see themselves on the page.” As an editor, she has worked with many of the finest writers of the last half-century, including Angela Carter, Maya Angelou, […]
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Aye Write 2023. Dave Rich – Everyday Hate
Tuesday, 23 May, 2023, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Antisemitism is supposed to have disappeared long ago, but despite our abhorrence of racism and oppression in all its forms, this ancient prejudice continues to thrive. At a time of economic, political, and social turmoil, fuelled by conspiracy theories on your smartphone or conflict in the […]
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Friday, May 19, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Stuart Cosgrove – Hey America!
Sunday, 21 May, 2023, 9.15 – 10.15 p.m. Stuart Cosgrove’s Hey America! is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis Armstrong’s spat with President Eisenhower and Eartha Kitt’s stormy encounter with […]
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Aye Write 2023: Timothy Phillips – The Curtain and the Wall
Sunday 21 May, 2023 – 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. In The Curtain and the Wall Timothy Phillips tells the tale of a landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain – from the Arctic Circle to Turkey’s eastern border – tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live […]
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Aye Write 2023 Politics: A Survivor’s Guide – Rafael Behr
Sunday 21 May, 2023, 4.15 – 5.15 p.m. We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financial crisis, Brexit, pandemic, war in Ukraine, inflation, strikes. Prime Ministers come and go, but politics stays divided and toxic. It is tempting to switch off the news, […]
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Aye Write 2023: Ryan Love, Fran Littlewood and Lynsey May
Saturday, 20 May, 2023 at 2.30 p.m. Aye Write prides itself on spotlighting new talent and punchy stories. Debut novels by Ryan Love, Fran Littlewood and Lynsey May will feature in this ‘Ones To Watch’ event which explores personal journeys in families. Ryan Love’s Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out tells the story of a grandfather and […]
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Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2023: Bringing Down Goliath Jo Maugham
Saturday 20 May, 2023 4.15 – 5.15 p.m. Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple The Powerful is a revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law Project. Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and […]
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Aye Write 2023: Pip Fallow and Daniel Gray, Working Class Heroes
Saturday 21 May, 2023 12.45 – 1.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY Pip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family of eight lived, in a village near Durham. Pip was destined to join his father down the pit, but the closure of his village’s mine in […]
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Aye Write 2023: Val McDermid in conversation with Louise Welsh
Saturday, 20 May, 2023 at 6 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3NY The Queen of Crime writing discusses her latest Allie Burns thriller 1989, set a decade after the bestselling first novel in the ground-breaking, iconic new series. 1989 – The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie […]
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Monday, May 15, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Aye Write: Janey Godley with Nicola Sturgeon
26 May, 2023 at 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Janey Godley in conversation with former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP. Janey Godley’s Nothing Left Unsaid tells the story of Senga and Sharon spanning Glasgow in 1976 and 2019. Glasgow, 2019. Sharon has rushed home at the news her […]
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Thursday, May 11, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog
Aye Write 2023 -Music Events
Aye Write 2023 has an eclectic selection of music events on the programme including a retrospective of The Jam from a former band member, an exploration of goth culture and several live music performances, they all guarantee to hit the right note. Highlights Stuart Cosgrove, Hey America, 21 May Concert Hall, 9 15 p.m. Information […]
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Monday, May 8, 2023 | Filed under: Aye Write 2023
Aye Write 2023 – Billingham and Brookmyre’s Dirty Weekend
20 May, 2023, 7.45 – 8 45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Mark Billingham is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers. A former actor, television writer and stand-up comedian, his series of novels featuring D.I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel of […]
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Aye Write 2023 tickets now on sale
PRE-SALE TICKETS OUT NOW First chance to secure your tickets for this year’s event from 27 April, 2023. The much-loved celebration of books and literature makes its highly anticipated return this year with a packed and dynamic programme. More than 120 events will showcase a broad range of both established and emerging writing talent. These […]
