Lily Dunn, Creative Conversations University of Glasgow
Monday 26 January, 2026 at 1 p.m. Campus Bookshop, University of Glasgow, Fraser Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ Author Lily Dunn reading and in conversation In her new book, Into being, the acclaimed author of Sins of My Father Lily Dunn shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir. As a memoirist, teacher and mentor, Dunn demystifies […]
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Sunday, January 25, 2026 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Autumn Voices: Online Reading with Sukhema Butler
Tuesday 3 February, 2026 at 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Continuing their Letting Go programme, Autumm Voices are delighted to invite you to an online reading from Glasgow-based poet, publisher and facilitator Sukhema Butler. Sukhema as Larry Butler was born in the USA , and has been living in Glasgow since 1981. Convenor for Lapidus […]
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Friday, January 16, 2026 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Matt McGinn Remembrance
Saturday 17 January, 2026, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. The Olde Burnt Barnes, 179 London Rd (corner of Ross St) Glasgow G40 1PA Annual remembrance event for the Legendary Matt McGinn at the Old Burnt Barnes in Ross Street the very street where Matt was born on the 17th January 1928
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Thursday, January 15, 2026 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Burns Events, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Music
ARC Conversations: Failure, Collaboration and the Culture of Research
Wednesday, 11 February, 2026, 4 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Chapel Lane, off Byres Road, G11 6EW Nicol Keith, Professor of Molecular Oncology discusses how researchers create meaningful impact beyond academia. Over his career, Nicol Keith, Professor of Molecular Oncology at the School of Cancer Sciences, has seen a growing […]
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Louise Welsh in conversation with Chris Brookmyre – The Cut Up
Thursday 29 January, 2026 7 p.m. Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3EW A stylish, atmospheric detective story – the third featuring the gay auctioneer Rilke – from the author of the award-winning cult classic, The Cutting Room. ‘I loved everything about this book – the engaging characters, the credible backdrop to a clear, sharp […]
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Sunday, January 11, 2026 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Inclinations Film Club – Resisting Militarism
Saturday 10 January, 2026, 7.30 p.m. Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Militarism shapes everyday political life in the UK: from recruitment in schools and research in universities, to the global reach of British military power and the arms trade that sustains wars, occupation, and repression – including Saudi Arabia’s war […]
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Rachelle Atalla – Creative Conversations
20 January, 2026, 1 p.m – 2 p.m. University Chapel, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, West Quadrangle, Glasgow G12 8QQ Author Rachelle Atalla reading and in conversation Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. Her short stories have been published widely, she has written for BBC Radio 4, […]
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Monday, December 22, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Nemo Arts Winter Showcase
Friday 12 December, 2025, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. The Briggait, WASPS Studios. Opposite the Nemo Arts Studio in the Clydeside Market Hall. Celebrate the achievements of Nemo Arts community with an inspiring afternoon of creativity, collaboration, and wellbeing – featuring performances from our Drama, Choir, Guitar, and Taiko Drumming Groups, and exhibitions from our […]
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Sunday, December 7, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Solstice – Glasgow Joint Novel Launch
Sunday 7 December 7, 2pm to 4pm Garnethill Multicultural Centre, 21 Rose St, Glasgow G3 6RE Solstice by Ruth Aylett & Greg Michaelson Ruth Aylett and Greg Michaelson invite you to come and celebrate their joint novel Solstice, from Stairwell, with mulled wine and mince pies. Readings from Solstice – a stand-alone follow-up to Equinox […]
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Sunday, November 30, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
A Line of Water – Scottish Writers Centre
Sunday, 9 December, 2025, 7 p.m. CCA Clubroom, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G1 3JD A Line of Water – Catherine Eunson and Mary Thomson | Q&A | Readings A Line of Water was created by Catherine Eunson and Mary Thomson in response to the story of the great Victorian engineering project which brought a clean […]
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Thursday, November 27, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Liz MacWhirter – Creative Conversations
Monday 24 November, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, Main Building, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ Poet and Novelist Liz MacWhirter in Conversation Liz MacWhirter is a writer, speaker and theologian. Her debut novel, ‘Black Snow Falling’ (Scotland Street Press, 2018), gained a Carnegie Medal nomination, and her poetry is published by Lucy Writers, […]
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Sunday, November 23, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Paper Birds – Workshop Book Week Scotland
Tuesday 18 November, 2025, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 232-242 St Vincent Street, G2 5RJ Join illustrator Helen Kellock for an afternoon of crafting and companionship inspired by beautiful volumes of the Birds of America by John James Audubon. Free book your place Come along on the […]
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Saturday, November 15, 2025 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2025: Denise Mina and Helen Fields in conversation with Bryan Burnett
Saturday November 15, 2025, 4.15 p.m. Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW BBC Scotland’s Bryan Burnett is joined by two crime writers extraordinaire as they peel back the layers of a good mystery. Described as “crime-writing royalty” by none other than Ian Rankin, Denise Mina draws us into the world of blood […]
Aye Write 2025: The Pen is Mightier: Edward Tudor Pole with Teddy Jamieson
Saturday 15 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. The Mitchell Library, Norh Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Edward Tudor Pole takes to the Aye Write stage to discuss his autobiography, The Pen is Mightier. In a series of amusing, nostalgic and sometimes outrageous stories, all told with candour and wit, Tudor Pole recounts his pre-punk youth, the time […]
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Alasdair and Others: Willy Maley at ARC University of Glasgow
18 November, 2025, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW By The Alasdair Gray Archive Announcing the First Event in the New Themed Programme: Alasdair & Others The Alasdair Gray Archive is delighted to launch the first event in their brand new themed programme, Alasdair […]
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‘That famed place of aquatic gamboling’ : Swimming in Victorian Glasgow
Tuesday November 18, 2025 7.30 p.m.- 9 p.m. Arlington Baths Club, 61 Arlington Street, Glasgow G3 6DT Part of the Arlington Talks collection Overview How stories and poems are revealing the watery world of the 19th century residents who enjoyed swimming in Glasgow’s rivers. On sunny days in 19th century Glasgow, city-dwellers flocked to the Clyde and […]
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Friday, November 14, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Chiels and Quines – A Tribute to Sheila Templeton
Tuesday, 2 December, 2025 at 7 p.m. Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Host: Linda Jackson Seahorse Publications launch a new collection of poetry, Chiels and Quines, by Sheila Templeton, AC Clarke and Maggie Rabatski. There will be memories, music and poems. Performers include: Lesley Benzie, Ann MacKinnon and Keeks Mc
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Thursday, November 13, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Mirrorball Showcase CCA
Thursday 20 November, 2025, 7 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. St Mungo’s Mirrorball presents: Another great night of poetry with renowned Scottish poet Robert Crawford joined by Vicki Husband, David Kinloch, Finola Scott and Eloise Birtwhistle Tickets CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, GlasgowG2 3JD
Living With Rain – Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow
Launch of Report by Andrew Hoolachan 3 December, 2025, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Collective Architecture, 13 Bath Street, G2 1HY Overview Launch of Dr Andrew Hoolachan’s report ‘Living with Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow’ You’re walking through Glasgow in the height of summer. A heavy rain shower leaves behind a soaked urban […]
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Launch: The Great North Road – Stuart Campbell
Saturday 22 November, 2025, 2 p.m. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP The Great North Road manuscript that Robert Louis Stevenson left unfinished at his death has now been completed by the noted Stevenson scholar and novelist Stuart Campbell. Acting as a literary sleuth he has located a list of twenty-five intended chapter […]
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Battlefield Writers Book Launch – Glasgow Tales
Part of Book Week Scotland 17 – 23 November, 2025 17 November, 2025 – 6 p.m. – 7p.m. plus Second date on 13 November at 6 p.m. Couper Institute Library presents the launch of Glasgow Tales. Join the Battlefield Writers for the launch of their new collection Glasgow Tales – A Collection of Short Stories and […]
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A Kick Up The Arts Sanjeev Kohli in conversation with Nicola Meighan
Thursday, 13 November, 2025, 2.3o p.m. (Doors 1.30 p.m.) The Stand Comedy Club, 420 Great Western Road, G4 9HZ Join writer and BBC broadcaster Nicola Meighan for a late lunch live recording of her Scottish arts and culture podcast, A Kick Up The Arts, with some of our best loved actors, musicians, artists, comedians and […]
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Monday, November 10, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write: Blitz: Robert Elms with Stuart Cosgrove
Tuesday 11 November, 2025, 7.45 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont St, Glasgow G2 3NW Acclaimed author and broadcaster Robert Elms makes his Aye Write debut to discuss his new book, Blitz: The Club That Created the 80s. The short-lived Blitz club in London’s Covent Garden was more than just a place to hang out […]
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Aye Write 2025 – Jeanette Winterson
On Aladdin Two Lamps Friday 14 November, 2025, 6 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont Street, G2 3NW Literary trailblazer Jeanette Winterson at Aye Write for the first time. Forty years on from her era-defining debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps. Weaving together fiction, magic and […]
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Marginalia – The Stand Comedy Club
Thursday 6 November, 2025 7 p.m. Kevin Gilday and Nasim Rebecca Asl The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow 333 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow G3 6NG Buy tickets This month with comedy colossus Darren Connell, who headlined the esteemed King’s Theatre as part of this year’s comedy festival; chatting about gruesome crime with bestselling author of The Malt Whisky Murders, […]
Action Time Vision: Grant McPhee, Katy Lironi & Douglas MacIntyre with Nicola Meighan
Thursday, 13 November, 2025, 9.15 p.m. The Mitchel Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Aye Write 8 – 16 November, 2025 Broadcaster Nicola Meighan discusses the development of the DIY aesthetic in the Scottish music scene with three authors who’ve been there, done that, and got the band t-shirt. Douglas MacIntyre cut his teeth […]
Thursday, October 30, 2025 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Creative Conversations: Akshi Singh
Monday 3 November, 2025 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free event – Register at Eventbrite Writer Akshi Singh, author of In Defence of Leisure, in conversation about her work. This week’s Creative Conversations guest is Akshi Singh, who is an associate editor atParapraxis and deputy editor atCritical Quarterly, […]
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Woody’s – Nora Guthrie: Scottish Huntington’s Association
Thursday, 23 October, 2025, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. The Clutha Bar – 167-169 Stockwell Street, Glasgow Grammy winner Nora Guthrie, daughter of US folk singer Woody Guthrie, and her friends will be at The Clutha, when Nora will be retracing her famous father’s footsteps. Woody played an impromptu set at The Clutha while on […]
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: Gutter and Alasdair Gray Archive
Monday 20 October, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Showcasing the work of Lucy Lauder and Joey Simons University Chapel, Main Building University of Glaagow, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Lucy Lauder (she/her) is a writer originally from the Scottish Borders now living in Glasgow. Lucy studied at the University of Glasgow from 2019-2024, gaining an […]
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Sunday, October 19, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Aye Write 2025: Happy, Healthy, Sober – Janey Lee Grace with Frankie Burr
Sunday, 9 November, 2025, 12.45 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN With her signature blend of honesty, humour, and holistic wisdom, former WHAM! backing singer Janey Lee Grace discusses her book, Happy Healthy Sober, with host Frankie Burr. Since ditching the drink in 2018 and stepping into a life of energy, clarity, and […]
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Thursday, October 16, 2025 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2025, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
