Simon McDermott & Chris Wilson, The Songaminute Man, Aye Write 2018
24th Mar 2018 • 3:00PM – 4:00PM Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN The extraorinary story of Simon McDermott and his Dad Ted, The Songaminute man. When Simon McDermott’s Dad Ted was diagnosed with dementia, Simon desperately tried to reach him until in the car one day he hit play on Ted’s favourite song Quando […]
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Chris Bryant, ‘Entitled’ at Aye Write 2018
24 March, 2018 8.15 p.m The Tramway The popular and outspoken MP Chris Bryant discusses his new book, ‘Entitiled,’ the full, shocking story of the British aristocracy, from Anglo-Saxon times until the present day. Exploring the extraordinary and sometimes pernicious social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over centuries, it seeks to explain […]
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Aye Write 2018, Jon McGregor introduces…Chris Power & Chris McQueer
18th Mar 2018 8:15PM – 9:15PM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Jon McGregor introduces new writers Chris Power & Chris McQueer The prize-winning novelist will be introducing another two debut writers, this time with collections of short stories: Chris Power’s stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or […]
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Thursday, March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2016, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Gail Honeyman and Sarah Winman Word of Mouth Best Sellers, Aye Write 2018
Gail Honeyman & Sarah Winman, Word of Mouth Best-sellers 18th Mar 2018 • 8:15PM – 9:15PM • Glasgow Royal Concert Hal, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NYl Both of these novelists have enjoyed phenomenal word-of-mouth success with their books and will be here to talk about them. Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Com-pletely Fine has been […]
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Sunday, February 25, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scottish Women Writers with Linda Jackson of University of Strathclyde Creative Writing
The Mitchell Library 24 March, 2018 5.30 p.m. This session will look at some of the ‘forgotten’ women; the ‘anonymous’ balladeers from the past and compare and contrast the representations of women and their lives with those representations in the works of contemporary writers. Led by Linda Jackson PhD from The University of Strathclyde. Book […]
Stuart David Peacock’s Alibi, Aye Write 2018
Stuart David: Peacock’s Alibi 15th Mar 2018 • 7:45PM – 8:45PM • University of Glasgow Chapel, West Quadrangle, Gilbert Scott Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ Stuart David is a musician, songwriter and novelist. With Alistair Braidwood, Scots Whay Hae! Stuart David is a musician, songwriter and novelist. He co-founded the band Belle and Sebastian and went on to form […]
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Wee Write – Family Days at Aye Write! 3 and 4 March, 2018
Looking for a fun day out for the little bookworms in your life? Celebrate their imagination at the Wee Write! Family Days! It’s an absolute must for the kids. Join us for a weekend of imaginative, literary fun! The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 March, 2018 10 a.m. […]
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Thursday, February 22, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Kids and young people, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ten Writers Telling Lies and M. Litt Creative Writing Open Mic, Gilchrist Centre University of Glasgow
Wednesday 28 February, 2018 – 6 p.m. The Gilchrist, University of Glasgow, Gilbert Scott Building, University Avenue, G12 8QQ Ten Writers Telling Lies will perform with prose, poetry and music. M.Litt Creative Writing Graduates will be among those performing with music by Jim Byrne. Starts 6 p.m. Free and all welcome Afterwards M.Litt students will perform […]
Nature Writing Beyond Landscape – Scottish Writers Centre, Glasgow
Writing The World Around Us 13 March,2018 –7 p.m. Scottish Writers Centre, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD “The best environmental art, then, is deconstructed from the inside. As theory it retains its fullest existence as questioning—internally fractured by a doubt […]” —Timothy Morton This two-part workshop will have participants discussing a selection of different […]
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Tuesday, February 20, 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
Express Yourself, Women in Poetry at Tell It Slant, Friday 23 February, 2018
Friday, 23 February, 2018 Tell It Slant, 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6ST This is a biggie!! ((IT IS EXPRESS YOURSELF’S 1ST BIRTHDAY)) We are celebrating Woman In Poetry. It’s the year of the woman. A big bunch of us fabulous woman are coming together in an all female poetry lineup to share 5 minutes […]
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Colin Herd, Poet at Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow
Monday 19 February, 2018 – 1 – 2 PM University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free & Open to the Public Colin Herd is a poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow. His first collection of poems “too ok” was published by BlazeVOX in 2011. […]
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Sunday, February 18, 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
LGBT History Month, Film Screening and Discussion, STUC
STUC LGBT+ Committee Thursday 22 February, 2018 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. An evening of short films and discussion as part of LGBT+ History Month! Screening some short films (BBC Queer Britain, My Lesbian Mums + TBC) followed by a lively panel discussion on the themes of the film, featuring Kate Adair and others. This […]
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Thursday, February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, LGBT Glasgow, LGBT History Month, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ian Bell New Writing Award, Meet the Judges at Aye Write
Melanie Reid, Michael Gray & Iain Macwhirter,The Importance of Good Journalism 17th Mar 2018 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3NY Join the distinguished judges of Ian Bell New Writing Award for a discussion on the need for good journalism (never more so than in these turbulent, confusing times) […]
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Sunday, February 11, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Sonnet Youth at The Drygate, 21 February, 2018
Sonnet Youth is a spoken word house party. A literary rave. A real life piss up in a brewery – bringing together poets, authors, rappers, comedians and musicians for a night of no holds barred performances. And for the first time Sonnet Youth will now take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh! Curated and hosted by Kevin […]
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Aye Write! Denise Mina introduces… Danny Denton & Mick Kitson 18 March, 2018
18th Mar 2018 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library The popular author and broadcaster, and recent winner of The McIlvanney and Gordon Burn prizes will be introducing: Danny Denton & Mick Kitson. Denise Mina introduces… Danny Denton and Mick Kitson Ticket £6 The popular author and broadcaster, and recent winner of The McIlvanney and […]
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018 | Filed under: Aye Write! Book Festival 2018, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Denise Mina at Creative Conversations review Pat Byrne
Denise Mina in conversation with Zoe Strachan. University of Glasgow Chapel Denise Mina was in sparkling form talking about her latest book ‘The Long Drop’, – based on true crime the subject being the serial killer Peter Manuel, who created terror in Glasgow and Lanarkshire in the 50s. She kicked off by telling the audience […]
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Sextival: Queer Relationships on Film, CCA
Sat 10 February 2018 In this session showing will be a few short films relating to Queer relationships. They will explore the topic of healthy queer sex and relationships before moving onto a CommunityDiscussion. 2pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema 18+ Book Online / 0141 3524900 Related CCA Events Sextival LGBT Age Workshop Sat 10 February […]
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Sunday, February 4, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Aye Write 2018 – Darren McGarvey & Raoul Martinez, Freedom From Poverty
24th Mar 2018 • 4:45PM – 5:45PM • Tramway Rapper and Columnist Darren McGarvey and Painter and Filmmaker Raoul Martinez offer fierce and profoundly hopeful manifestos for change. Darren McGarvey aka LOKI grew up in Pollok. He is a writer, performer, community activist and columnist. His first book Poverty Safari uses elements of his own […]
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Eileen Myles and nick-e-melville, OranMor
12 March,2018 – 7.45 p.m. Òran Mór, Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX EileenMylesis the author of more than twenty books, including Chelsea Girls, and most recently, I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems 1974-2014. Myles’s many honors include four Lambda Literary Awards, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, the Shelley Memorial Award from […]
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Friday, February 2, 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
Denise Mina at Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow
Novelist Denise Mina Monday 5 February, 1 – 2 PM Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Denise Mina’s first novel Garnethill, published in 1998, won the Crime Writers Association John Creasy Dagger for Best First Crime Novel. She has now published over […]
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Thursday, February 1, 2018 | 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
The Darker Side of Fairytales with Kirsty Logan, Dumbarton Library
22 February, 2018, 7 p.m. – 9p.m. Fairy tales are pretty stories with happy endings meant for children, right? Well, not these ones! Perhaps we’re more familiar with the tame storybook versions, but fairy tales were originally shared between adults, and are crammed full of blood, violence, sex, mystery and betrayal. Join award-winning novelist and short […]
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Saturday, January 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
Honest Error: Glasgow Poets on Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Honest Error: Glasgow Poets on Charles Rennie Mackintosh Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ 30 January 2018 at 1.00pm Gillean McDougal author of Honest Error with poets Kay Ritchie and Eveline Pye Hunterian Insight Talks Lunchtime talks by experts from The Hunterian and the University of Glasgow. These talks offer insight into The Hunterian’s world […]
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Writer David Keenan, Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow
Monday 29 January, 2018 1 – 2 PM University Chapel University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Free & Open to the Public David Keenan is an author, critic and musician. He is the author of This is Memorial Device (2017), a novel which the Guardian called “one of […]
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Friday, January 26, 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
Aye Write! 2018 Jackie Kay – Bantam
17th Mar 2018 • 4:45PM – 5:45PM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Jackie Kay discusses what connects us, and laments what divides us. Jackie Kay’s first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit – one that Jackie argues we need now more than ever. Bantam crosses borders, from Rannoch […]
Aye Write! 2018 Louise Welsh Introduces Laura Carlin & Imogen Hermes Gowar
17 March, 2018 4.45 p.m. Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Continuing Aye Write’s tradition of established writers introducing a pair of debut authors, Professor of Creative Writing and author of No Dominion, Louise Welsh introducing: Laura Carlin & Imogen Hermes Gowar. Laura Carlin The Wicked Cometh – In the murky alleyways of London, […]
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Aye Write! 2018 Celebration of writing from community-based literacy and creative learners
16th March, 2018 2018 • 1:00PM – 2:30PM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN Learners from across the city come together to share their writing on a range of themes. Come along to this lively event where community-based adult literacy and creative learners from across the city come together to share their writing on […]
Graeme Macrae Burnet Aye Write! 2018
25th March 2018 • 3:00PM – 4:00PM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN of The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau as well as the Man Booker shortlisted His Bloody Project. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has […]
Poet JL Williams – Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow
Monday 22 January, 2018 1 – 2 PM University Chapel Free & Open to the Public University Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building Gilmorehill Campus, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ JL Williams was born in New Jersey and studied at Wellesley College and on the MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Her poetry […]
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Saturday, January 20, 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
Cinemaattic presents Psiconautas + Q&A at CCA, Glasgow
Cinemaattic presents Psiconautas + Q&A</21> Fri 26 January 2018 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £6 (£5) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Guerrilla film collective Cinemaattic presents the special screening of Psiconautas, first feature by renowned Animator Alberto Vazquez. A night of post punk animation full of ecologist criticism. Alberto will be […]
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Friday, January 19, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Muriel Spark 100: Appointment in Arezzo, National Library, Edinburgh
Muriel Spark 100: Appointment in Arezzo Tuesday 30 January, 2018 6pm Alan Taylor first met Muriel Spark in 1990 when he interviewed her for a press feature, and a long lasting bond was formed. Join him as he discusses his friendship with Muriel Spark as shared in his colourful, surprising and admiring memoir, Appointment in Arezzo. […]
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Muriel Spark Centenary Celebrations, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
