Book Week Scotland: Arlington Baths Recommends
Book Week Scotland: 16-22 November 2020 In November Arlington Baths Club is usually gearing up to participate in Book Week Scotland. Sadly that’s not possible this year because of Coronavirus – however they have highlighted some online events they think will be of interest. Their regular Book Week Scotland collaborators Ringwood Publishing have several free […]
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Wednesday, November 4, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Seven New Strawberries – Book Launch
Monday, 16 November 2020 7.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. Hosted by Scottish Universities’ International Summer School Online event – Free via Eventbrite Scottish Universities’ International Summer School (SUISS) is proud to present Seven New Strawberries: seven new translations of Edwin Morgan’s poem ‘Strawberries’ into seven world languages. Together, and with the translators’ accompanying commentaries, they […]
Seahorse Saturday
Saturday 14 November, 2020 – 2p.m. – 4 p.m. Dream and Relax Seahorse Publications Hosted by Linda Jackson line up includes: Alan Riach reading Janet Paisley Charlie Gracie introducing George Gibson and Sheila Templeton with Lesley Benzie. Free Online Event – Register at Eventbrite Linda Jackson – chatting with Pat Byrne – Jim and Pat’s […]
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Balloch Open Mic: Something from the Archives
Balloch Open Mic Blog, November, 2020 Trawling through some past writings I came across the following. Thought it might be of interest to those new to the Open Mic or thinking of paying a visit if/when. (Mary Irvine) Thanks are due to those who came at the beginning and continued to support the event on […]
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020 | Filed under: Blog: Balloch Open Mic, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch: Murder at the Mela, Leela Soma
Virtual Book Launch – Wednesday, 4 November, 2020 at 7 – 8.30 p.m. Virtual launch of Leela Soma’s highly anticipated new novel, Murder at the Mela. Glasgow’s first Asian DI joins the ranks of great fictional Scottish detectives adding to highly popular Tartan Noir. About Murder at the Mela Alok Patel is thrown in at […]
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Monday, November 2, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Leela Soma writing and blogging, Zoom and online events
Creative Conversations: Daisy Lafarge
University of Glasgow Monday 02 November 2020, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Daisy Lafarge in conversation with Sophie Collins Zoom Event Tickets at EventBrite You will be sent the link to attend the meeting after you book. Daisy Lafarge’s first poetry collection, Life Without Air, and a novel, Paul, are forthcoming from Granta Books. Her pamphlets include understudies […]
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Mary Irvine’s Blog: Something for Hallowe’en
Witch Hunting in Scotland Scotland was one of the countries in Europe where a lot of witch hunting took place. There were five national large scale witch hunts in Scotland between 1590 and 1662. Most of these were concentrated in the East Coast and the Borders, but there were also cases in the West. Not […]
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Hallowe'en in Glasgow, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene, Writing
Creative Conversations: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Thursday 29 October 2020 6.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Zoom Event – You will receive link after you Register on EventBrite “A tremendous writer… It’s hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong’o” – The Guardian Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is an urgent and vital writer, […]
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Friday, October 23, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
‘Words From Battlefield’ – Book Launch
24 October, 2020 2 p.m. Online Event Collection of poetry and prose from the creative writing class at Finn’s Place Register at Eventbrite ‘Words from Battlefield’ published by Seahorse Publications. About this Event ‘Words from Battlefield’ is a selection of the writing from tutor Linda Jackson’s Creative Writing Classes at Finn’s Place – ‘a unique […]
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Poet’s Time with Jenne Gray
Short Film – Interview and Reading with Jenne Gray – hosted by Linda Jackson Seahorse Publications Watch Online: http://seahorsepublications.com/short-films/
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events, Zoom and online events
From Glasgow To Saturn Fall Launch
15 October, 2020 – 9 p.m. From Glasgow To Saturn – A Literary Journal. From Glasgow to Saturn showcases work by the current students and staff of Glasgow University and the Glasgow School of Art. The journal includes work by both undergraduates and postgraduates plus alumni (of any and all courses, including short and continuing […]
Deep Dive Workshops Stay at Home Literary Festival
Tuesday 13 October, 2020, 6 p.m. Zoom Event- Stay At Home Literary Festival Elizabeth Reeder shares with you the complex nature surrounding the conception, execution, and most importantly the process of her decision-making in her writing projects. About the Event As a writer, Dr. Elizabeth K. Reeder has a total addiction to creating unspoken, embedded […]
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Black History Month: Scots and Early British Colonialism in Asia
Wednesday 14 October, 2020 from 1 p.m. Hosted by Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights CRER Scotland Online event – Register at Eventbrite The Other Half of the Empire: Scots and early British colonialism in Asia c. 1690-c.1820. Online talk by Dr Andrew McKillop, Glasgow University, for Black History Month 2020. Debates on the historical […]
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International Day of the Girl Child
SATURDAY OCTOBER 10TH, 2020 – 13:30 “What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don’t know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before.” – Toni Cade Bambara,The Salt Eaters How to watch and join in the discussion: This will be streamed live to our Facebook page and you […]
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Friday, October 9, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Rose Ruane, Creative Conversations
Monday 12 October 2020 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Free Zoom Event – Register on Eventbrite You will be sent the link to join once you book. Rose Ruane is an artist and writer. Her debut novel This is Yesterday was published by Corsair books, and she is currently undertaking a PhD at Glasgow university. She […]
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Thursday, October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
A.E. Stallings at Creative Conversations
Monday 05 October 2020 1 .m. – 2 p.m. Zoom Event Register at Eventbrite A. E. Stallings, born in 1968, is an American poet who has lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and later at Oxford University. She has published three collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (which […]
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Monday, October 5, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
CRER Lunchtime Talks – Black History Month
THE OTHER HALF OF THE EMPIRE: SCOTS AND EARLY BRITISH COLONIALISM IN ASIA. C. 1690-C.1820 14 October, 2020, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Black History Month Scotland 2020 Debates on the historical origins of inequality and racism in Scotland often focus, understandably, on the legacies of involvement in transatlantic slavery. But the British Empire was […]
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Creative Conversations:Roseanne Watt
Monday 19 October 2020 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Zoom Event – Free Register at Eventbrite You will be sent the link to join the meeting after booking.. Roseanne Watt is a poet, filmmaker and musician from the Shetland Isles, currently based in Edinburgh. She was the winner of the 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry […]
Hey – That’s Mine – Museums and Black History Month Glasgow
Wednesday, 28 October 2020 from 13:00-14:30 Public · Hosted by CRER Scotland FREE Online event – Tickets and information at Eventbrite A talk by Dr. Richard Benjamin, Head of the International Slavery Museum, for Black History Month 2020. How did Black History Month start? How did this affect the Black consciousness movement in the United States, […]
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In Focus: 16 Years: Gigs in Scotland 1974 – 1990 Online Book Launch
Thursday 1st October, 2020 6.30 p.m. Street Level Photoworks Livestreamed through on Street Level Photoworks on Facebook For the fifth in series of In Focus talks with book launch for ’16 Years: Gigs in Scotland 1974 – 1990′, a comprehensive yet accessible photobook on live music in Scotland during a key period. The book is […]
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Monday, September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Pat's Home Page Blog, Zoom and online events
Creative Conversations: Homi K Bhabha
(Image:Homi_K._Bhabha.jpg: jeanbaptisteparisderivative work: Hidro / CC BY-SA) Thursday 01 October 2020 – 5.30 to 6.3o p.m. Homi K Bhabha on the “Unprepared” Creative Conversations College of Arts Zoom Event Register at Evenbrite (Once you register you will be sent a link) Homi K Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard […]
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Thursday, September 24, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Freddy Anderson – collected poems and prose book release
BOOK RELEASE – ‘Freddy Anderson: Collected Poems & Prose’ (Hog’s Back Press an Imprint of Rymour Books, 2020). Freddy Anderson (1922 – 2001) born in Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland, came to Glasgow after the war. He was a well-known figure in the city and amongst the Scottish Literary scene. This is the first collected edition […]
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Tidelines Book Festival 2020
24 – 27 September, 2020 Tidelines are taking the festival online this September What’s happening? They are running a series of four sessions around the themes of Poetry, History, Fiction, and Crime over the Festival weekend 24–27 September. All free. All events will be available on Tidelines YouTube Channel Programme Thursday 24 September, 2020 Liz Lochhead: One […]
You’re Only Young Twice – Digital Doors Open Day 2020
A lively discussion of Terry Bishop’s neglected 1952 campus comedy classic ‘You’re Only Young Twice’, filmed at the University of Glasgow. 17 September, 2020 7.30 pm – 8.30 p.m. About this Event You’re Only Young Twice James Bridie, Irish-Scottish Studies & the University of Glasgow on Film Join a lively discussion led by Professor Willy Maley on […]
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Fury by David Morley – Carcanet Press Online Book Launch
Online event – Tickets Wednesday, 9 September 2020 from 19:00-20:00 Hosted by Carcanet Press, Yvonne Reddick and David Morley Please join Carcanet Press online to celebrate the launch of David Morley’s new poetry collection, FURY. The collection is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and currently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Hosting the reading will be […]
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Monday, September 7, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
The History of Scottish Pen – Online
Online event – Free Friday 11 September, 2020, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Hosted by Scottish PEN Tickets via Eventbrite A discussion on the upcoming centenary of PEN International and Scotland’s history of promoting literature and defending free expression. ‘With PEN approaching its centenary in 2021 and Scottish PEN (founded 1927) an early part of […]
Creative Conversations: Jemma Neville
Creative Conversations College of Arts – Zoom Event Monday 28 September 2020, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Tickets at Eventbrite Jemma Neville is a writer with a background in human rights law. She is Director of the national development agency for community-led arts, Voluntary Arts Scotland. She was the inaugural Community Fellow at the Institute […]
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
Creative Conversations: Nicholson Baker
Creative Conversations College of Arts – University of Glasgow Thursday 17 September 2020 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. Zoom Event Tickets at Eventbrite Nicholson Baker ‘s novels are A Box of Matches, The Fermata, Room Temperature, The Mezzanine, House of Holes, Vox, The Anthologist and Travelling Sprinkler (both featuring ‘beloved hero and poet Paul Chowder’). His works of nonfiction include U & I , Human Smoke, […]
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Creative Conversations: Andrew O’Hagan
CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS & TIDELINES PRESENT: ANDREW O’HAGAN Thursday 03 September 2020, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Zoom Event Register for Tickets ‘Mayflies is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends. Beautifully written – wise, funny, poetic, alert to time, place and the ordinary human… I adored this book.’ Carol Ann Duffy […]
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Coronavirus, Zoom and online events
Kayus Bankole & Kei Miller: Edinburgh Book Festival
Kayus Bankole & Kei Miller: Outriders Africa from East to West Mon 31 Aug, 2020 11:30 – 12:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online As part of the Book Festival’s Outriders programme exploring the shifting landscapes of contemporary Africa, hear from award-winning writer Kei Miller, whose barnstorming latest poetry collection, In Nearby Bushes, was tipped […]
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