Aye Write: The Kavya Prize
Saturday, 21 May, 2022 at 8 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN The Kavya Prize aims to celebrate published work and new writing by Scotland’s ethnically diverse communities. The first winner of the Kavya Prize will be announced at the Aye Write Event on 21st May. Founded by Indian-born Scottish author Leela […]
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Thursday, May 5, 2022 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2022, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write: Graeme Thomson with John Dingwall
Themes for Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds Thursday, 19th May, 2022 at 8 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Buy tickets An illuminating new biography of one of Britain’s most influential bands, written with the full cooperation of Simple Minds Nobody owes us anything, but the Simple Minds story […]
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Aye Write: Beyond the Swelkie
Sunday 8 May, 2022 at 6.30 p.m. The Mitchell, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN A Celebration of the Centenary of George Mackay Brown in poetry and prose. ‘Beyond the Swelkie’ is a collection of poetry and prose in English, Scots and Gaelic celebrating the centenary of George Mackay Brown. Its contributors are based in Orkney […]
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2022, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
CARLA Book Launch at tell it slant
Thursday 26 May, 2022 at 7 p.m. Event by Tell it slant 134 Renfrew St, Glasgow G3 6ST Official book launch of the poetry collection, CARLA, by Carla Woodburn, published by Leamington Books, suitably held at Tell It Slant poetry bookshop, Locavore, Glasgow. There will be a recital from the book by the author, an interview […]
All Becomes Art – Poems to Joan Eardley
Friday 6 May, 2022, 3 p.m. until 4.30 p.m. Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QQ Poetry and Prosecco in the Hunterian Art Gallery to celebrate the publication of ‘All Becomes Art’. About this event Joan Eardley is one of Scotland’s best loved artists and has inspired poets from all […]
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Aye Write 2022: Scotland’s future. Gerry Hassan, Joyce McMillan & Prof Tanja Bueltmann chaired by Simon Barrow
Thursday 19 May, 2022 at 8 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY A welcome back to Aye Write in person after last year’s successful digital event. The session will be chaired by Simon Barrow who is the Director of Ekklesia, the beliefs, politics and ethics think-tank. Discussing the future of […]
Colonial Seeds / Seedy Social / Community Meal
Thursday, 12 May 2022, 6:30-8:00 Talk and Community Meal Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall St, Glasgow G41 1BA Glasgow Seed Library and CCA Glasgow All welcome Where do our seeds come from? How did they get here? Gather for a friendly discussion led by artist and researcher Désirée Coral, about the origins and stories behind some of […]
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Aye Write: MORE FIYA: A Celebration of Black British Poetry with Kayo Chingonyi, Janette Ayachi and Dean Atta
Thursday 19 May, 2022 at 6.30 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN One of our new poets form last year returns with an excellent new anthology of black British voices. In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi (author of A Blood Condition, SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD) brings […]
Aye Write 2022: Introducing Debut Authors
Aye Write, Glasgow’s Book Festival has a brilliant programme of events including many well known personalities and successful authors. It’s also great to discover new writers and some of my favourite events are those where panels of debut authors are given the opportunity to talk about their new books. This year’s events include: 8 May, […]
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2022, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write: Douglas Bruton introduces…Kenny Boyle, Claire Alexander, Adrian Keefe and Charlie Roy
Saturday 7 May, 2022 at 1.15 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, G3 7DN Douglas Bruton, introduces Aye Write 2022’s first panel of excellent debut writers. Douglas Bruton, who was recently longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for his novel Blue Postcards will be in the chair to introduce this varied panel of debut writers: Kenny Boyle – The […]
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Aye Write: Karen Campbell Introduces… Kirsty Capes, Louise Nealon and Emily Edwards
Saturday 14 May, 2022 at 11.30 a.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN The celebrated Scottish author Karen Campbell introduces this panel of debut writers. Kirsty Capes – Careless Sometimes it’s easy to fall between the cracks. At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she’s pregnant. She could tell her social […]
Aye Write: Matthew Keeley Introduces… Liam Konemann, Julie Owen Moylan and James Cahill
Saturday 21 May 2022 at 4.45 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN Glasgow-based writer and teacher Matthew Keeley introduces this panel of debut writers. Liam Konemann’s The Arena of the Unwell follows 22-year-old Noah as he is drawn into the co-dependent relationship of two older men in the indie music scene. After a gig by […]
Scottish Writers Centre Speakeasy New Voices
Tuesday 3 May, 2022 at 7 p.m.- 9 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Come along and read or be part of the audience at the CCA Clubroom for SWC’s 2nd Speakeasy event of the year Linda Jaxson will host the event. Welcome these talented writers: Peter A Lesley Benzie Donna Campbell David Chinn […]
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Saturday, April 30, 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
Aye Write: Ambrose Parry – A Corruption of Blood
Friday 13 May, 2022 at 8 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN The latest novel in this gripping historical series from husband and wife team Chris Brookmyre & Marisa Haetzman. Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed […]
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Thursday, April 28, 2022 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2022, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write: Aye Write: Louise Welsh Introduces Sukh Ojla, Claire Kohda and Ryan O’Connor
Thursday 12 May, 2022 – 8 p.m. event cancelled Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN Novelist, librettist and Professor of creative writing, Louise Welsh introduces this panel of debut writers. Sukh Ojla – Sunny Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her friends, she’s the entertaining, eternally upbeat, single one, always on […]
Aye Write: Louise Welsh Introduces Sukh Ojla, Claire Kohda and Ryan O’Connor
Thursday 12 May, 2022 – 8 p.m. Novelist, librettist and Professor of creative writing, Louise Welsh introduces this panel of debut writers. Sukh Ojla – Sunny Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her friends, she’s the entertaining, eternally upbeat, single one, always on hand to share hilarious and horrifying date stories. […]
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Aye Write: Claire Askew introduces…Siobhan MacGowan, Amen Alonge and Robert Gold
Sunday 8 May, 2022 – 6.30 p.m. The award-winning crime writer and poet Claire Askew introduces this panel of crime and thriller debuts. Siobhan MacGowan – The Trial of Lotta Rae Lotta Rae is a young working-class woman who is viciously attacked by a wealthy gentleman. Lotta’s family are firm believers in justice, so Lotta makes […]
Aye Write 2022: Rodge Glass introduces…Kasim Ali, Ashley Hickson-Lovence and Catherine Prasifka
Sunday 8 May, 2022 – 4.45 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN The novelist, biographer and creative writing professor Rodge Glass introduces this panel of debut writers. Kasim Ali – Good Intentions A heart-wrenching and beautifully told debut novel about love, family obligation and finding your way. Nur and Yasmina are in love. They’ve been […]
Mary Irvine’s Blog: Interview with debut author Evelyne Lawrie
‘Gie Me a Word’ An interview with debut author by Evelyne C. Lawrie Where were you born/brought up? I was born and brought up in Bonhill in 1936. I went to Bonhill Primary and then the Vale of Leven Academy. Christie Primary School, in Middleton Street, was the original Academy. I then attended the West […]
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Monday, April 25, 2022 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Nichola Scrutton Work in Progress with Zoe Strachan
6 May, 2022 at 6 p.m. Glasgow Project Room, 103 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD A performance sharing of work-in-progress from Nichola and Zoë’s residency at Glasgow Project Room. About this event Update on development time in a two-week residency at the Glasgow Project Room. You are warmly invited to an informal performance sharing of work-in-progress […]
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The Strathclyde Writing Spring Showcase
Tuesday 17 May, 2022 at 7 p.m. The Strathclyde Writing Spring Showcase – featuring Booker-prize shortlisted author FIONA MOZLEY, alongside Strathclyde students. by Creative Writing @ University of Strathclyde FIONA MOZLEY, author of Hot Stew (2021) and the Booker-shortlisted Elmet (2017) – Reading plus Q & A. Also Strathclyde PhD students SINDHU RAJASEKARAN, MIRRI GLASSON-DARLING, RUTH EJ BOOTH […]
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Aye Write 2022 – Andy Arnold with Kirstin Innes and David Bratchpiece Brickwork: A Biography of the Arches
Friday 6 May, 2022 at 8 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, The Arches was one of the most important venues in Scotland. In 1991, former punk-turned-theatre director Andy Arnold walked into the disused red brick Victorian railway arches underneath Glasgow’s Central Station and immediately saw the […]
red and black Clydeside book fair at CCA
Saturday 7 May 2022, 3 p.m. – 9 p.m. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Event by Glasgow Keelie and Spirit of Revolt archive Stalls, talks, videos attracting participation from diverse range of anarchist groups and collectives, radical unions and causes. Event on Facebook
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Sunday, April 24, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Community event, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Wee Write 2022
Wee Write Book Festival in Glasgow Monday 25 to Friday 29 April, 2022 Saturday 30 April will see the return of Wee Write Family Day. Six days of inspiring, fun-packed events for little people with big imaginations. Live In-Person Events Return Returning for live in-person events for the first time since 2019 due to the […]
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Friday, April 22, 2022 | Filed under: Aye Write Book Festival 2022, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
A Letter to Prophet Muhammad ( pbuh) – Rizwan Akhtar
(Yeats says tread softly because you tread on my dreams) I have laid bare my heart sealed by your memory, birds trees together sing a genre of melancholic desert song plead for your intervention summers are too hot to spend but have heard the wind deflected by your Green Dome brings a flood of fragrance, […]
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Rizwan Akhtar – Poet, Writing
Aye Write 2022, Graeme Macrae Burnet ‘Case Study’
15 May, 2022 – 3 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN Book tickets The Booker-shortlisted author returns with his critically lauded new novel, Case Study. Case Study Treasure Hunt Challenge 14 April – Paperback Launch London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. […]
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Aye Write: Val McDermid with Ruth Wishart – 1979
12 May, 2022 at 8 p.m. The latest best-seller from Scotland’s Queen of Crime and the start of a new series. 1979. It’s the winter of discontent, and Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. One of few women in the newsroom, she needs something explosive for the boys’ club to take her seriously. […]
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Aye Write 2022 – Ian Rankin, The Dark Remains
22 May, 2022, 6.30 p.m. Aye Write Glasgow’s Book Festival Tramway 25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE Tickets Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective. McIlvanney was a huge inspiration to Rankin and the creator of Rebus completes his idol’s last, unfinished novel. […]
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Aye Write 2022 – Bobby Gillespie
7 May, 2022, 9.30 p.m. Tenement Kid Book Event Aye Write Glasgow’s Book Festival The Mitchell Library North St, Glasgow G3 7DN Tickets 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 […]
Book Launch: ‘Portrait’ Tracy Patrick’s poetry collection
12 May, 2022, 7 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Paisley Central Library, 15 Mill Street, Paisley PA1 1ND Free event You are invited to the book launch of, Portrait, the first full-length poetry collection by Paisley writer, Tracy Patrick, author of the Saltire-commended novel, Blushing is for Sinners. Tracy will be accompanied by one of the […]
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Saturday, April 9, 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
