An Evening With Shola Von Reinhold at Scottish Writers Centre
Tuesday, 7 February, 2023 at 7 p.m Scottish Writers Centre, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD With Strathclyde University and University of Glasgow Creative Writing Shola von Reinhold, author of the dazzling, lush, award-winning novel LOTE will join Creative Writing @ Strathclyde and Glasgow UofG Creative Writing for an evening of readings and discussion […]
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Friday, February 3, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Maya MacGregor at Creative Conversations
Monday 06 February 2023, 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow,Glasgow G12 8QQ Free & Open to the Public Maya MacGregor is an author, singer, and artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. A fluent Gaelic speaker, Maya is active in many community activities in Gaelic music as well as writing […]
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Kevin Gilday: Spam Valley on Tour
February and March, 2023 If you missed it at the fringe (or just want to see it again!), Kevin Gilday, award winning poet, writer and performer, will be performing his five show Spam Valley at specially selected venues in February and March, 2023. It’s a hilarious show about class and belonging with some great contemporary […]
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Thursday, February 2, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Tidelines Book Festival presents: Scrievin & Scran
27 January, 2023 – An Evening of Spoken Word Tidelines Book Festival Harbour Arts Centre, 116 Harbour St, Irvine KA12 8PZ Chase away those January blues with the return of this hugely popular event, brought to you by Tidelines Book Festival. A warming evening of spoken word, with a half-time hot pie included in the […]
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Burns Tasting, Glasgow University Malt Whisky Society
Sunday, 22 January, 2023 at 8 p.m. After the massive success of their first tasting, GUMWS are super excited to continue this semester’s tastings with their annual Burns Tasting! Come through for some unique Burns-inspired drams, some rousing poetry from our friends at Scot Lit, and further shenanigans! IN ADDITION: Limited edition GUMWS Glencairns (Whisky […]
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Saturday, January 21, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Burns Events
Friction Burns Supper 2023
Saturday, 28 January, 2023 6 p.m. Room 2, 69 Nelson Mandela Place, G2 1QY You Call That Radio hosts the 13th annual edition of the Friction Burns Supper which returns to a live audience for the first time since 2019. Expect a fast-paced underground cabaret of musos & wordsmiths attempting to stick to a vague […]
Address to Burns – Scottish Writers Centre
January 24, 2023, 7 o.m. – 9 p.m. CCA, 50 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD and Onlin HOSTED BY TOM MURRAY e Writers! You are invited, in the form of a letter, to address Robert Burns on one, or more, of the following topics: His…WORK; POLITICS; RELATIONSHIPS + LEGACY It can be poetry, prose, or song […]
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Burns Events
Best Laid Schemes – Dexter Gordon Place
Two Novellas – Crimes for our Times Donning another hat, Ian R Mitchell who has written several books on mountaineering and on Glasgow history, turned during the years of Covid to writing a couple of crime stories which he has published pseudonymously – with the new name to go with the new hat. Tales for […]
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Writing Wresolutions with Christie Williamson
January 17, 2023, 7 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre Online Event Scottish Writers’ First Online event of the year to help shape your writing and goals in 2023 with Co-chair Christie Williamson! Limited Places Available. Bring yourself and a favourite text for a reading list gift exchange. It can be anything, your own […]
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Monday, January 16, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
The Prescription – Glasgow creative writing group in medical humanities
New creative writing group working with a significant Glasgow medical archive Apply to join The Prescription – Closing Date 15 January, 2023 The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow’s St Vincent Street is an internationally-renowned centre for training and professional examinations and holds an important collection […]
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Peter May, Aye Write – special event
23 January, 2923 at 6.30 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, G3 7DN Peter May is back with an enthralling crime thriller set in a frighteningly plausible near-future, ravaged by climate crisis. A Winter Grave centres on the discovery of an investigative reporter’s dead body entombed in ice on a Highland mountain top. Cameron Brodie, […]
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Thursday, December 15, 2022 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2022, Aye Write Book Festival 2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Mackintosh Group of Writers – Evening with at Helensburgh Library
Thursday, December 8th, 2022 at 7 p.m. The Mackintosh Group of Writers would like to invite you to ‘An Evening with Local Writers at Christmas. Helensburgh Library, 59 W King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB. There will be a chance to meet local authors, buy books – signed, many at discount prices with no postage costs […]
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Monday, December 5, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Community event, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Scottish Writers Christmas Speakeasy 2022
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 – 7 – 9 p.m. Come and join Scottish Writers’ annual speakeasy celebration at the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD For those who cannot attend in person, please register for a Zoom link to this event. Everyonewelcome – members, friends and first timers to come along and share their […]
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Sunday, December 4, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Christmas in Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Andrew O’Hagan and Andrea Gibb – Mayflies on page and on screen
29 November, 2022, 7 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD The Scottish Writers’ Centre is delighted to welcome: CREATIVE WRITING @ STRATHCLYDE, Novelist ANDREW O’HAGAN & screenwriter ANDREA GIBB to discuss the novel MAYFLIES & BBC TV adaptation. Register for event ANDREW O’HAGAN is one of the UK’s most celebrated novelists, […]
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Sunday, November 27, 2022 | 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
Aye Write: Bobby Gillespie
8 December, 2022 Hear Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie reading from his memoir taking him from Glasgow tenement to the release of the iconic Screamadelica. Bobby will be signing copies of his book Tenement Kid after the event. Born into a working-class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, Bobby Gillespie’s memoir Tenement Kid begins in Springburn, […]
Launch of Ruby McCann Writing School – Book Week Scotland 2022
Tuesday 15/11/2022 at 7 p.m. Launch of the Ruby McCann Writing School with Inaugural Tutor Rodge Glass CCA Clubroom, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Join Scottish Writers for a night they have been looking forward to and working on for a long time. They will have the immense privilege of launching a writing school […]
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Don Paterson, St Mungos Mirrorball Showcase
Wednesday, 16 November, 2022 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Multi award winning poet Don Paterson will be performing at St Mungos Mirrorball Showcase – reading along side Mark Russell, Morag Smith and Tracy Patrick. £7 on the door. Clubroom – 7 p.m. Event info CCA
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Book Week Scotland: Chris Brookmyre and Denise Mina
Monday, 14 November, 2022 6.30 p.m. (chaired by Tariq Ashkanani) Chris Brookmyre’s The Cliff House is set on a luxury getaway on a private island where Jen’s hen party is going to be out of control. . . As well as Jen, there’s the pop diva and the estranged ex-bandmate, the tennis pro and the fashion guru, […]
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Creative Conversations: Togara Muzanenhamo
Monday 07 November 2022, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Togara Muzanenhamo was born to Zimbabwean parents in Lusaka, Zambia in 1975. He was brought up in Zimbabwe, and then went on to study in The Hague and Paris. He became a journalist in Harare and […]
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Jackie Kay reads Maud Sulter
6 November, 2022 Pollok House Pollok Country Park 2060 Pollokshaws Road Glasgow G43 1AT Jackie Kay, award-winning writer will be at Pollok House on 6th November to discuss the significance of Maud Sulter’s cultural legacy and how Sulter has inspired her own work. This event is part of the programme for the new special exhibition Maud […]
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Week Scotland 2022: The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy:Scotland & Caribbean Slavery with Dr S Mullen
Wednesday 16 November, 2022 at 6 p.m. Dr Stephen Mullen discusses his new book, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Dr Stephen Mullen (University of Glasgow) will be at the Mitchell Library to discuss his new book The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean […]
Monday, October 31, 2022 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events
Book Week Scotland 2022: Paul Smith – The Road to Barcelona
Thursday, 17 November, 2022 at 6.30 p.m. Ibrox Library, 1 – 5 Midlock Street, Glasgow G51 1SL Book Week Scotland 14 – 20 October, 2022 Scottish author Paul Smith is no stranger to spilling Scotland’s sporting stories, having written 18 sport and biography titles charting the stories being the headlines of some of Scottish football’s […]
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Graeme Macrae Burnet at Book Week Scotland 2022
Monday, 14 November, 2022 – 4.30 p.m. – 6 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Award winning Scottish Author Graeme Macrae Burnet returns to the Mitchell Library during Book Week Scotland to delight and inspire current and potential book group members. Graeme will be discussing his Booker Longlisted new novel, Case Study- […]
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Sunday, October 30, 2022 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book Week Scotland 2022: Scotland’s Stories –Tales from the people of Scotland with Sally Magnusson
Monday 14 November, 2022 7 p.m. Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB Join Sally Magnusson to celebrate stories from four vibrant Scottish communities as part of Book Week Scotland 2022. Book Week Scotland runs 14 – 20 November, 2022. Whether it’s the tales from childhood that captured our imagination, the larger than […]
Friday, October 28, 2022 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland, 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
Mary Irvine’s Blog: ‘Blackbird Singing’ – an evening with Graham Morgan
‘Blackbird Singing’ – a review Thirty souls came along to the latest ‘An Evening with…’ event at the Helensburgh library, last Thursday. This time the author was Graham Morgan, who was in conversation with Robin Lloyd-Jones. Under discussion was Graham’s second book, ‘Blackbird Singing’, a sequel to his debut book ‘Start’. Pictures in words In […]
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Monday, October 24, 2022 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
A Mixter O Makars: Scotland’s City Makars
November, 1, 2022 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Scottish Writers, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street G3 2JD The Glasgow leg of the A Mixter o Makars event series! As well as Scotland’s National Makar there are also Makars for many of Scotland’s cities too. For the first time, all five City Makars will perform live […]
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Sunday, October 23, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
An Evening with Mary Edward, Helensburgh Library
Thursday, November 24th at 7 p.m Helensburgh Library, 59 West King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Mary will talk about her latest book, Gallowgate, the author’s third historical novel. She will talk about the book, the research required and writing in general. Gallowgate is a story about three Irish sisters fleeing poverty and starvation in Wicklow, […]
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C.J. Cooke – Creative Conversations
Monday 31 October 2022, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, UniversityAvenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free event – Register at Eventbrite CJ Cooke, also known as Carolyn Jess-Cooke, grew up on a council estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the height of the Troubles. She started writing at the age of 7 and […]
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Friday, October 21, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
An evening with Graham Morgan – Helensburgh Library
Thursday 20th October, 2022 7pm Helensburgh Library, 59 W King St, Helensburgh G84 8EB Free entry and refreshments Black Bird Singing’ is Graham’s second book. In his first, ‘Start’, published by Fledgling Press in 2018, he writes honestly about the breakdowns in his life and the torn relationships with those nearest him. But he also […]
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Thursday, October 13, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Black Cuban Short Films: A Contemporary Wayward Selection
Havana Glasgow Film Festival – Wednesday 9 November, 2022. 5.50 p.m. – 8 p.m. Event by CCA Glasgow and Havana Glasgow Film Festival CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Purchase Tickets BLACK CUBAN SHORT FILMS: A CONTEMPORARY WAYWARD SELECTION (N/C 18+) What are you expecting from Black Cuban Cinema? It is probably not here. This event […]
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
