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 […]
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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
Landslides glaciation and the evolution of mountain landscapes during the Quaternary
Lecture: Professor Colin Ballantyne, Thursday, 14 April 2022, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm University of Glasgow Room 639, James McCune Smith Learning Hub, University Avenue, G12 8SQ Free Event A persistent view amongst geologists is that landscape evolution in mid-latitude mountains during the Quaternary (2.6 Ma to the present) was dominated by glacial erosion. Using […]
Rochelle Alexandra, Book Chat in support of Ukraine
Sunday, 10 April, 2022 4 p.m. Sikorski Polish Club, 5 Parkgrove Terrace, Glasgow G3 75D Book Chat with #1Bestselling Debut Author Rochelle Alexandra of ‘In Alexa’s Shoes’ Sikorski Club as part of the Ukrainian Aid Raising funds to go towards: Funding will go directly to two organizations in Ukraine: Financing will help in Charków providing […]
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‘TICKETY-BOO!’: An Appreciation of Brian Whittingham
Tuesday, 19 April, 2022 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Scottish Writers Centre CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Tickets Free – Register for Event A celebration of Brian Whittingham, poet, writer, teacher and the first Tannahill Makar. Five leading west of Scotland poets will read work to, about or by Brian in celebration and fond […]
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Tuesday, April 5, 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
Young Walter Scott Prizewinners 2022
This year’s prestigious prize for young writers of historical fiction, the Young Walter Scott Prize, has been won by Leo Wilson for his For the Love of the Sun in the 11-15 years category, and by Oliver Dhir, author of A Lost Generation, in the 16-19 years category. The judging panel this year included new […]
Aye Write 2022: George Monbiot
Thursday 19 May, 2022 at 6.30 p.m. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3NY Rengensis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet The fearless journalist on how we must transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world. Farming is the world’s greatest cause of environmental […]
Making Imagined Objects – The Second Alasdair Gray Conference
16 – 17 June, 2022 University of Strathclyde Register for Event The University of Strathclyde and the Alasdair Gray Archive, in partnership with the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Western Brittany (HCTI), Aix-Marseille Universite (LERMA), Edge Hill University, the University of Lausanne and the Tannahill Fund for the Furtherance of Scottish Literature, are […]
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Sarah Smith and Louise Welsh at Aye Write 2022
Saturday, 14 May, 2022, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow, G3 7DN Two beautifully written thrillers feature at this session. Thrilling and atmospheric, Louise Welsh’s The Second Cut delves into the dark side of twenty-first century Glasgow. Twenty years on from his appearance in The Cutting Room, Rilke is still walking a moral tightrope […]
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‘Secret Glasgow’ Stephen Millar and Gillian Loney, Book Launch
Thursday 24th March, 2022 at 7pm Waterstones Argyle Street, 174-176 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8BT Celebrate the launch of Secret Glasgow! Authors Stephen Millar and Gillian Loney will be discussing all things unusual and unfamiliar about Glasgow. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Glasgow guide book and let our local experts show you […]
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Wednesday, March 16, 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
Scottish Writers – A Tribute to Ruby McCann
Ruby’s Tuesday 7 pm Tuesday 22 March, 2022 CCA Cinema (Please note not in the clubroom ) Free but donations welcome Scottish Writers will pay tribute and celebrate the life of the late Ruby McCann. As part of a varied and distinguished literary career, she served as chair of Scottish Wrtiers, which humbly attempts to […]
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Tuesday, March 15, 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
Douglas Stuart at Aye Write
In Conversation with Louise Welsh Thursday 14 April, 2022 7 p.m. Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN Douglas Stuart’s debut novel Shuggie Bain announced a striking new voice in Scottish fiction: tender but unflinching, funny and emotive. It spoke to readers around the world and won him the 2020 Booker Prize. His follow-up novel is Young Mungo, a gripping […]
Gutter Launch Issue 25
Thursday 10 March, 2022 at 7 p.m. Waterstones, 174-176 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8BT Gutter is an award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland and featuring literature from around the world; join us as we mark the launch of their 25th edition! With readings from writers […]
