Public Lecture of the Publishing Scotland’s International Fellows Glasgow – review by Mary Irvine
‘Main entrance, first right, first left.’ I was early. Reliant on train times, and the ‘drop of a hat’ cancellations, I had taken an early train. No problems. Partick not busy. Metro to Kelvinbridge. Pleasant walk through grassed area to steps leading up to Gibson Street and on to University Avenue, arriving at the main […]
Monday, August 27, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Fail Better Open Mic, Villiers & Co
30 August, 2018 ‘Oor holiday in the west end continues!’ Come down on THURSDAY for a night of more OPEN MIC Fail Better mayhem. Starting the back of 7 to give you all time to go to the Open Mic Sessions at GoMA where you can catch belters Bell Lungs and C Smith, among others! […]
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Friday, August 24, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Susan Calman, Aye Write Glasgow
3 September, 2018 The Mitchell Theatre, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DR Comedian and broadcaster Susan Calman brings all the joy to Aye Write! this September with her new book, Sunny Side Up. It’s a quick-stepping welcome back for Susan Calman who danced her way across our screens and into our hearts for 10 weeks on […]
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Friday, August 17, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Word Jazzology, Glasgow 30 August 2018
Babbity Bowsters, Merchant City Thursday, 30 August, 2018 – 7.30 p.m. Tickets £5 on the door Where comedy, music and literature collide. Irish stand up and comedy novelist Ian Macpherson oversees a cabaret evening with gypsy jazz, poetry and his very own inaugural Book Snuff competition. This is literature with a twist. Fresh from the […]
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Monday, August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
An Evening with Charles E. McGarry, Waterstones Sauchiehall Street
7 September, 2018 The Shadow of the Black Earl Haunted by his last case and bereaved by a sudden loss, Leo Moran is invited to spend the summer at Biggnarbriggs Hall, the stately residence of his friend Fordyce Greatorix. He is overjoyed when romance blossoms unexpectedly, but he finds himself plagued by visions after a […]
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Thursday, August 9, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ajay Close, Scottish Suffragettes, The Project Cafe
Mayhem in Short Skirts, The Scottish Suffragettes Tuesday 14 August, 2014 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. The Project Cafe, 134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST Scottish Writers Centre (change of venue from CCA) £5/£3, free to all SWC members Drinks will be available for a small donation, to help us say thank you to our […]
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Sunday, August 5, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Publishing Scotland International Showcase, University of Glasgow Chapel
Thursday 23 August 2018 17:00 – 20:00 University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel Malachy Tallack, Chitra Ramaswamy, Alan Parks, Mick Kitson and Sally Magnusson, chaired by Louise Welsh Malachy Tallack, Chitra Ramaswamy, Alan Parks, Mick Kitson and Sally Magnusson will be reading and discussing their work with Professor of Creative Writing Louise Welsh, in honour of […]
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Saturday, August 4, 2018 | 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
Bute Noir 2018
Weekend Timetable 3 – 5 August, 2018 BUTE NOIR EVENT SCHEDULE FRIDAY 3rd AUGUST 4.30 pm – 5.30pm Bute Museum A starter for tension: James Oswald, Sarah Hilary and Mari Hannah 6 pm – 7 pm Rothesay Library Far horizons: Abir Mukherjee and Graeme Macrae Burnet 7.30 pm– 8.30 pm Print Point From screen to […]
Tidelines Book Festival 2018, Irvine, Scotland
27 – 30 September,2018 TIDELINES BOOK FESTIVAL Harbour Arts Centre, 114-116 Harbour Street, Irvine, KA12 8PZ After a very successful festival in 2017 – Tidelines is all set to go again in 2018 with an amazing line up of authors covering a wide range of genres and events including writing workshops. A Taste of Tidelines […]
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The Sma Shot 2018 Paisley Town Hall
The 4th annual Sma’ Shot Slam Saturday 7 July, 2018, 7 – 10p.m. Paisley Town Hall, Abbey Close, Paisley PA1 1JF Hosted by Shaun Moore. The poetry night with a difference, held on the evening of Paisley’s historic workers’ day, part of the wider Weave Festival. Hear and see some of Scotland’s best performance poets […]
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Thursday, July 5, 2018 | 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
The Backstreets of Purgatory, Waterstones Byres Road
Book Launch Thursday, 19 July, 2018 Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Encounter No 1 by Sogol Mabadi and Emma Helen Reid
Exhibition open: Fri 13 July – Sun 29 July – 12 – 6pm Open Thursdays to Sundays. The Pipe Factory, 42 Bain Street, G40 2LA Encounter no. 1 is a joint endeavour by Sogol Mabadi and Emma Helen Reid and is intended to be the first of many collaborations. The project was selected as part […]
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Word Jazzology hosted by Magi Gibson, Babbity Bowsters, Glasgow
5 July, 2018 Where literature, comedy and music collide Q: what happens when you put a chanteuse, a comedy writer, a jazz guitarist and his music mates, a novelist and a poet in the upstairs room of a Glasgow bar? A: word jazzology with Ian Macpherson – holding it all together. Or not. Sigh. Christine […]
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Spotlight on Cinemas – West End Festival 2018
Monday, 25 June, 20128 – 6.30 p.m. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, G12 8AP Gordon Barr, co-founder of www.scottishcinemas.org highlights the architectural history of cinema, including converted roller-skating rinks, the earliest purpose-built halls, and the peculiarly Scottish ‘back court’ theatres, with a focus on the West End of Glasgow, which has long been famous for […]
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Friday, June 22, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, West End Festival Glasgow
The 5th Annual Champipunship, OranMor
Tuesday, 10 July, 2018 7 p.m. OranMor, Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX The Annual Champipunship is back! Eight competitors are raring to go. The house band- The Pun Lovin’ Criminals are getting ready to bring a whole new host of pun based songs. Also going to be doing a big charity raffle. It’s […]
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Cindigo, Poets at West End Festival
30 June, 2018 2.30 p.m. – 4.30p.m. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, G12 8AP Stuart Paterson is looking forward to being part of this Glasgow West End Festival event – 5 poets from the Cinnamon and Indigo Dreams publishing houses performing together in the sumptuous surroundings of Hillhead Library. ‘I will, of course, be giein […]
Explore Wellspring Writing, Laura T. Fyfe, Scottish Writers
Tuesday, 19 June, 2018 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD If you’re feeling creatively or motivationally challenged, The Scottish Writers Centre has just the cure for you this June. Ignite your imagination and fire up your creative cylinders with a session from award-winning writer, tutor, publisher and professional nag, Laura T Fyfe. In an unpretentious, […]
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Monday, June 18, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Classes and Workshops
Kittlin and the Carlton 3, West End Festival
Thursday 21 June 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Kelvinside Hillhead Church, Saltoun Street, Observatory Road Glasgow G12 9AG Event on Facebook www.westendfestival.co.uk
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Sunday, June 17, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Gig Guide plus Club Events, West End Festival Glasgow
Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Calum Gardner, SWG3 Poetry Club
Tuesday 19 June 2018, 19:00 – 21:30 Dodie Bellamy writes genre-bending works that focus on sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation, challenging the distinctions between fiction, essay, and poetry. Her most recent collection is When the Sick Rule the World, from Semiotext(e). Her chapbook, The Beating of Our Hearts, was published in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin […]
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Saturday, June 16, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Art of Words, Thistle Gallery, 14 June, 2018
Fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com Thursday, June 14th, 2018 – 7 p.m. until 9.30 p.m. Wine / Raffle/ Canapes – Tickets £15 Part of West End Festival Well known and much loved author Carl MacDougall (Someone Always Robs […]
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Friday, June 8, 2018 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, West End Festival Glasgow, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Beyond Boundaries, Festival 2018, Call For Poems
Beyond Boundaries Festival 2018, the cultural and arts programme that will run as part of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships, is supporting a call for poems responding to ‘Beyond Boundaries’. These could be inspired by the idea of overcoming obstacles and striving towards a goal, or by the concept of uniting in our differences and celebrating our […]
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Monday, June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Festival 2018
Examination Paper, Creative Writing Event/Installation, Scotland Street School
Friday, June 22nd, 2018, 2 – 4 p.m. Come along and take part in a mock exam – forming part of a future exhibition. To book your space and for more information email: rhonamillar@ymail.com Now as a museum, it tells the story of 100 years of education in Scotland, from the late 19th century to […]
Launch of Autumn Voices 2018
PLAYSPACE PUBLICATIONS INVITE YOU TO THE LAUNCH OF THE BOOK ‘AUTUMN VOICES’ Autumn Voices: Scottish writers over 70 talk about creativity in later life. Edited by Robin Lloyd-Jones, (PlaySpace Publications, £12.99) EDINBURGH:Thursday 21 June, Blackwell’s Bookshop, 52-63 South Bridge, EH1 1YS,6.00-7.30 pm GLASGOW Thursday 28th June, Waterstones, 351-355 Byres Road, G12 8AU, 7.30-9.00 pm There […]
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
‘Growing and Dying’ Tribute to Janet Paisley, Event at Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street
Thursday, 7th June, 2018, 7 p.m. Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW The event is free but please call Waterstones to book 0141 332 9105. With Tom Leonard, Alan Riach, Anne Donovan and Janice Galloway. Other readers include Pat Byrne, Ann McKinnon and students from Creative Writing Course at University of Strathclyde. Music by Linda Jaxson […]
Sunday, May 27, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Art of Words, Thistle Gallery, 7 June, 2018
Fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support Thistle Gallery, Scottish Contemporary Art 56 Park Road, Glasgow G4 9JF Email Telephone: 0141 334 3444 www.thistle-gallery.com Thursday, June 7th, 2018 – 7 p.m. until 9.30 p.m. Wine / Raffle/ Canapes – Tickets £15 Part of West End Festival Accomplished author Graeme Macrae Burnet (His Bloody Project) will be reading extracts from […]
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Writers’ Workshop Day at Fruin Farm, Nr. Helensburgh
Wednesday, 20th June 2018 The venue is the picturesque Fruin Farm at the Cross Keys roundabout on the A818, Helensburgh, G84 9EE (www.fruinfarm.co.uk) Programme 10.15 am Robin Lloyd-Jones Building a character 11.15 am Coffee 11.30 am Mary Edward Editing 12.45 pm Lunch […]
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Marian Keyes at Aye Write, the Mitchell Library
30th May, 2018 Join international best-seller Marian Keyes at The Mitchell Library She’s so funny – this is bound to be thoroughly entertaining and an absolute hoot. Marian Keyes: talking books, talking life, just talking……The Break, Strictly, scribing, Ailment of the Month, shoes, reading lists, fillums, inspirational celebs, make-up, Sudden Wild Enthusiasms and everything in […]
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Friday, May 25, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Word Jazzology, Partickhill Bowling and Community Club
WORD JAZZOLOGY! Saturday, 8 June, 2019 at 8pm – 11 pm Partickhill Bowling & Community Club Christine Bovill, Alan Bissett, Ian Macpherson, Magi Gibson, Le Jazz Band with Helen Jayne violin and Graham Pointer. Cabaret collision of French-style jazz, comedy, poetry and literature with bar. Stand up Ian Macpherson, winner of the first Time Out […]
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Autumn Voices Project – Poetry Competition 2018
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Free opportunities to writers in later life that are available through the Autumn Voices Project which aims to promote and discuss creativity in later life.A poetry competition for writers over 70. 1st prize £250. Entry free.Judged by poet, A.C. Clarke.> Prizes 1st prize £250, 2nd prize £100, 3rd prize £50 Closing date: […]
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Autumn Voices Showcase 2018
Autumn Voices Showcase: Aims to promote and discuss creativity in later life. They are offering a free showcase for work published by writers over the age of 60 years. WELCOME to the Autumn Voices Showcase. The Autumn Voices Showcase aims to promote and discuss creativity in later life. This showcase will help to do this […]
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