Creative Conversations: David Robertson
Monday 07 June 2021 – 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. On Zoom Creative Conversations with Indigenous Canada co-hosted by Creative Writing and the Hunterian Associates Program Free Tickets at Eventbrite This event will be hosted on Zoom and you will be sent a link to attend the meeting once you book on Eventbrite. David A. […]
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Creative Conversations 2021, Zoom and online events
Aye Write on Demand 2021
Aye Write Online Events are available to stream on demand for three weeks after original broadcast date. For £50 for Festival Pass you can view 69 events with 120 authors. Book Festival Pass Or buy tickets for individual events at £5 each. Browse Individual Events
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Friday, May 28, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Before Now – Memoir of a Toerag by Moira McPartlin
Memories can mend more than broken bones ‘A brilliant depiction of family, the highs and lows of growing up, and a wonderful narrator who feels like a friend. I flew through it.’ Ross Sayers, author of Daisy on the Outer Line In Praise of Moira McPartlin ‘Moira McPartlin’s prose is rich but unpretentious, her storytelling […]
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write 2021 – Celebrating 40 Years of Lanark
23 May, 7.15pm £5 buy ticket Since 1986, the National Library of Scotland has held some of Alasdair Gray’s most valuable and rarely seen writing. From personal diaries to correspondence, from illustrations and sketches to drafts of his internationally celebrated novels, the archive is a treasure trove for lovers of contemporary Scottish literature and art. […]
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Sunday, May 23, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Aye Write A Renewable Energy Revolution
22 May, 4.45pm In the first and only book to explore Scotland’s part in the green revolution and what the future may hold, ‘Revolution: A Short Sharp History of Scottish Wind Power’ – And Where it Goes From Here, Todd Westbrook refutes common arguments against wind power with hard facts and a wry sense of […]
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Saturday, May 22, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – How To Stop Fascism, Paul Mason
22 May 11.45am How To Stop Fascism Paul Mason chaired by Ruth Wishart The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again – and […]
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Aye Write 2021 – Rodge Glass introduces Fiction Debuts
22nd May 10.30am The novelist and biographer Rodge Glass introduces six vivid new voices in fiction – featuring: Helen Fisher (Space Hopper), Dantiel W. Moniz (Milk Blood Heat), Megan Nolan (Acts of Desperation), Mateo Askaripour (Black Buck), Fiona Scarlett (Boys Don’t Cry) and Caleb Azumah Nelson (Open Water). *This performance is live and will […]
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Friday, May 21, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – Salena Godden and Courttia Newland – Immersive, Poetic Fiction
Friday 21 May 2021 at 3.30 p.m. £5 All ages Book here Immersive, Poetic Fiction – Salena Godden and Courttia Newland chaired by Lee Randall Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, […]
Aye Write 2021 Eco Tips for Your Home and Family
Nancy Birtwhistle & Jen Gale chaired by Frankie Burr 21 May, 11.45 a.m. Eco Tips for Your Home and Family Nancy Birtwhistle won the fifth series of The Great British Bake Off in 2014. Nancy worked as a GP practice manager in the NHS for thirty-six years until she retired in 2007. Motivated by protecting […]
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Aye Write 2021 – Welcome Home Shuggie Bain
Friday 21 May, 2021 at 4.45 p.m. Douglas Stuart with Janey Godley It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her […]
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – A Pair of Wildly Compelling Novels
21 May, 2021 10.30am Elizabeth Reeder and Elizabeth Haynes Experience the wild beauty of Scotland in both of these novels. Elizabeth Reeder’s ‘An Archive of Happiness’ Set in the Scottish Highlands over the course of one day during the Avens family’s annual get-together. It’s the summer solstice and theirs is a fractured family, broken by […]
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Maggie O’Farrell and Kate Mosse at Aye Write 2021
Friday, 21 May, 2021 at 7.15 p.m. Award-winner Maggie O’Farrell and Kate Mosse come together to discuss their latest novels. Aye Write is delighted to welcome these two incredible authors to Glasgow’s Book Festival. Chaired by Zoe Venditozzi. Sponsored by Rathbones This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the […]
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Sunday, May 16, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
An Evening with Lesley Benzie
Thusday 20 May, 2021 – 8.30 p.m. until 9.30 p.m. Unwind for an evening of poetry and conversation, as Dr. Linda Jackson speaks with poet Lesley Benzie about her new collection, FESSEN/REAR. Free – Online Register at Eventbrite About this event In Lesley’s new collection, FESSEN/REAR, she writes about about pain and loss on both a […]
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Saturday, May 15, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Balloch Open Mic Mental Health Week – May 2021
Mental Health Awareness Week (www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week) Realising it was Mental Health Awareness Week I immediately thought of a book I had read some two years ago and the strong impact it made. Graham Morgan Graham Morgan, MBE, of the Mental Health Commission (Engagement and Participating Office Scotland)> has worked in mental health for 30 years. His […]
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 | Filed under: Blog: Balloch Open Mic, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog
Aye Write 2021 – Kicking Off This Weekend
14th – 16 May, 2021 – Online Aye Write’s online book festival kicks off this weekend with award winning writers and stars from stage and screen. The Aye Write online book festival starts this weekend (Friday 14 May to Sunday 16 May) with a packed programme of events including award-winning writers, stars of stage and […]
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | Filed under: Aye Write 2021, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Living Our Dying – anthology pre-sale launch
Thursday 13th May, 2021 at 7pm Invitation to pre-sale launch 10th to 16th May is Demystifying Death Week, so fitting that crowd funding appeal is launched on Thursday 13th May at 7pm for an hour. You are invited to a Zoom meeting: Living Our Dying – meet the editors, Larry Butler and Sheila Templeton…and hear […]
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Aye Write 2021 – Mel Giedroyc – debut novel
Chaired by Gabriella Bennett 15 May, 2021 4.45pm – 5.45pm Mel Giedroyc has been entertaining the nation for nearly thirty years. A comedian, writer, actor and presenter, Mel is best known for her work with Sue Perkins in the double act Mel & Sue. They have presented many TV shows such as multi Bafta-winning The […]
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Aye Write 2021 introduces Scottish Debuts
14 May, 2021 – 10.30am – 11.30am New Scottish Writing Talent Vikki Reilly from Publishing Scotland introduces a diverse range of new Scottish writing talent including Fiction, Memoir, short stories and crime. Featuring: Ross Macfarlane (Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer), Emma Grae (Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy), Flora Johnston (What You Call Free), […]
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A WORKING CLASS STATE OF MIND by Colin Burnett
Order A WORKING CLASS STATE OF MIND by Colin Burnett Include your own shout-out, which will be printed in the finished book. Pre-order A WORKING CLASS STATE OF MIND for £12.99 (includes UK postage) by following the PayPal link on this page, and include a shout-out which will be printed in the finished book. Books will be […]
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Digging Out A Niche: In Conversation with Graham Lironi and Ian Spring
12 May, 2021 – 7 p.m. Online Event by Rymour Books Free – Register at Evenbrite Graham Graham Lironi and Ian Spring in conversation with Ruby McCann Rymour Books in collaboration with the Still At Home Literary Fringe Festival presents a virtual chat about the craft of fiction writing with writers, Graham Lironi and Ian […]
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Aye Write Programme 2021
Aye Write announces its full cast of authors for the digital book festival 2021 – 14 May to 16 May and 21 to 23 May. Programme and Tickets Aye Write is Glasgow’s Book Festival and is produced by Glasgow Life, the charity which delivers culture and sport in the city. The live book festival, usually held […]
Aye Write 2021 – Helen McClory & Ruth Thomas
15 May, 2021 – 11.45 a.m. – 12.45 p.m. Prize-winning Scottish Authors Helen McClory & Ruth Thomas chaired by Sara Davies Helen McClory’s first collection of stories, On the Edges of Vision, won the Saltire First Book of the Year. Her latest novel, Bitterhall is a story of obsession told between three unreliable narrators. In […]
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Aye Write 2021 – A City and a Family’s Story of Slavery
Friday 14 May, 2021 – 3.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Craig Lamont & Alex Renton with Graham Campbell chaired by Naomi Shoba Through the story of his own family’s history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. His book, […]
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Aye Write 2021 Creative Writing
Creative Writing Programme 24 – 29 May, 2021 In collaboration with the University of Strathclyde: Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University and the Gaelic Books Council. The programme offers you the chance to develop writing skills in many different forms including sessions on: writing for television with celebrated TV writer Ann Marie […]
Joan Eardley Centenary – Writers Celebrate her work
Writers celebrate the work of Joan Eardley in this special event to mark her centenary and launch a new call for work for an anthology. 18 May, 2021 at 7.30 p.m. until 8.30 p.m. Online – Free – Register at Eventbrite About this Event “All becomes art, and as if she was incensed By the […]
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Friday, April 30, 2021 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events, Zoom and online events
Woodlands Anti Racist Community Library Launch
Saturday, 1 May, 2021 – 11 a.m. until 1.30 p.m. Woodlands Community new Anti-Racist Community Library will officially open Satuday 1 May, 2021 in the Millennium Park. After this launch, the library will be located there fortnightly on Saturdays between 11am-1pm. Please come along for the in person launch and come check out a free […]
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Thursday, April 29, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Community event, Pat's Home Page Blog, Woodlands Community
Linda Jackson, The Cabinet launch of poetry collection
11 May, 2021 – 7pm to 8.30pm Free event – Book via Eventbrite. Linda Jackson is joined by guest poets Sheila Templeton, Aoife Lyall and Eveline Pye. Introduced by Professor Willy Maley About this Event Red Squirrel Press invites you to the Zoom launch of Linda Jackson’s poetry: The Cabinet. ‘This is my late mum’s […]
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Monday, April 26, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Book Launch: America Mules poetry collection by Martina Evans
Wednesday 21 April 2021 at 7 p.m. Join Carcanet Press to celebrate the launch of Martina Evans’s new poetry collection, American Mules. Hosting the reading will be fellow Carcanet poet Thomas McCarthy. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions. Also shown during the […]
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Monday, April 19, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
University of Glasgow; Full Day Symposium celebrating Creative Writing
Thursday, 22 April 2021 11 a.m. –4 p.m. A full-day symposium to celebrate the past, present and future of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow About this Event Creative Writing at University of Glasgow is applying to become the Centre for Writing and Creative Practice. This Centre will consolidate its cross-disciplinary portfolio of research […]
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Creative Conversations 2021, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Balloch Open Mic Blog: ‘To whom it may concern –’
A friend recently dropped in a new publication in which she was featured. The book, ‘‘To whom it may concern’ Arbroath Anthology, was a collection of letters of petition to commemorate the 700th Anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath (April 6th 1320). The Federation of Writers Scotland, who produced this book, decided, as it states […]
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | Filed under: Blog: Balloch Open Mic, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
