Love Words: Federation of Writers Scotland
Thursday 13 February, 2025, 7 p.m. – On Zoom Love Words is an open mic with Federation of Writers Scotland Hosts Ann MacKinnon and Alan McClure. Email to arrange a five minute slot Your contribution can be about the love of words as well as love words. Whether you are in love, have lost love, […]
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Thursday, February 6, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Zoom and online events
ARC Conversations: Making Ideas Fly Like Bicycles – Dr Tim Peacock
Thursday, January 30, 2025 · 4 – 5:30pm Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Drop down or pop into the atrium at ARC for the next in the series of ARC Conversations, where researchers will share insights and challenges from their research journey and explore the impact of collaboration […]
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Sunday, January 26, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: In Conversation with Rodge Glass
Monday 27 January, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Rodge Glass is the author of eight books published since 2005: No Fireworks (a novel, Faber & Faber), Hope for Newborns (a novel, Faber & Faber), Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (Bloomsbury), Dougie’s War (a graphic novel, with Dave Turbitt, Freight Books), Bring Me […]
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Friday, January 24, 2025 | 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
Burns Celebration – Federation of Writers Scotland
29 January, 2025 at 7 p.m. on Zoom The Federation of Writers, Scotland is holding a Burns celebration. The idea is that you read a Burns poem or extract and a poem of your own inspired by Burns. Please email for zoom details if you want to participate. If you wish to read then state […]
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Thursday, January 23, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Burns Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Call for Palestinian Artists to Perform at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
CALL OUT FOR PALESTINIAN ARTISTS TO PERFORM AT THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE Opportunity for artists in Palestine and the diaspora to perform in Scotland at the world’s largest arts festival. Looking for Palestinian musicians, theatre-makers, dancers, story-tellers, children’s performers, poets and comedians to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Fringe Palestine. Deadline to […]
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Friday, January 17, 2025 | Filed under: Art & artists Glasgow West End, Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Dance, Music, Pat's Home Page Blog
Tidelines Book Festival Scrievin’ and Scran 2025
Friday 24 January, 2025 7.30 p.m. Harbour Arts Centre 114-116 Harbour Street , KA12 8PZ Irvine A warming evening of poetry and prose, with a half-time hot pie included in the ticket price, this is the Tidelines-recommended recipe for warding off those January blues. Scrievin & Scran 2025 will be hosted by local professional actor […]
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Creative Conversations Kirsty Mackay
Photographic artist in conversation Monday 20 January, 2025 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Kirsty Mackay is an photographic artist, educator, activist and filmmaker. Her research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South […]
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
tell it slant at Locavore
Friday 30 January 2026 @ 7 p.m. Express Yourself – Tell it Slant at Locavore, 349 Victoria Rd, Glasgow G42 7SA Come along to Tell it Slant poetry bookshop for a wonderful, fun monthly open mic. The first of the year. Each poet gets a spot on the microphone to “express themselves”. No theme, no […]
Candlelight Poetry Slam, Old Toll Bar
3 February, 2025 at 7.30 p.m. The Old Toll Bar, 1 Paisley Rd W, Kinning Park, Glasgow G51 1LF Come along – all welcome. The floor will be open to all who fancy a little bit of (absolutely meaningless) competition. Here are the rules: 1. 3 Rounds – Rounds 1 + 2 have a 2 […]
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Loud Poets Slam Heat Glasgow
Saturday 11 January, 2025 Drygate Brewing Company. 85 Drygate Glasgow G4 0UT The prestigious Loud Poets Slam Series returns for its third year! Watch Glasgow’s top poets compete in one of 10 heats taking place across Scotland and England for the biggest prize in UK slam poetry. The winner will take home £200 and qualify […]
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Claire Wilson – Creative Conversations
Monday 13 January, 2025 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Claire Wilson is a crime writer from central Scotland. Her crime books are based on her day job as an Intelligence Analyst in a Scottish Prison. She loves gritty crime and grew up […]
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Monday, January 6, 2025 | 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
tell it slant Glasgow Christmas Party
Saturday 28 December, 2024 7.00 – 9.30 p.m. Festive banter and catch-up at tell it slant. Bring yer left over mince pies and wine and share poetry and laughter. tellitslantbookshop.wordpress.com/ Tell it Slant Poetry Bookshop Glasgow
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Monday, December 23, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Christmas in Glasgow, Pat's Home Page Blog, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Talk and Presentation: Linwood and Its History
Thursday, 16 January, 2025 6.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. ByPaisley Heritage at Paisley Campus, University of the West of Scotland UWS The Forum, Room 4, UWS Paisley, High St, Paisley PA1 2BE £5.00 per person Places must be booked in advance online Tickets Please join Robert Law for his fascinating talk and presentation all about […]
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Seahorse Christmas Party
Tuesday 19 December, 2024 Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT A party night featuring knock-out readers: Biff Smith, Chris Dolan, Polly Bee, Allan Gaw, Donna Campbell, Jenifer Harley, Martin Goldie and Graham Fulton plus raffle, cut-price books. Music from The fun-filled Carlton Jug Band. Event on Facebook
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Friday, December 6, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Christmas in Glasgow, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
FALL – a Film Poem Sampler
Friday, December 13, 2024 Room 213, St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow, School of Education, 11 Eldon Street Glasgow G3 6NH Free event – Reserve at spot at Eventbrite FALL embraces the rough-hewn, DIY, low-fi alongside digital cut-glass aesthetics. Selected film poems will be screened at University of Glasgow on 13th December 2024, in a […]
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: Louise Welsh
Creative Conversations: Louise Welsh Monday 25 November 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Memorial Chapel, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of nine novels, most recently To the Dogs, a campus novel. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the […]
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Saturday, November 23, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Scotland – Independence Day by David Lee Knight
Scotland – Independence Day Scottish Independence is finally here. Well at least, in fiction, in the shape of David Lee Knight’s recently published novel Scotland – Independence Day. When the protagonists in this intriguing thriller come to realise that independence is not achievable by political means alone, they embark on a far riskier journey into […]
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Keep Talking – Literary Charity Evening Glasgow
Tuesday 19 November, 2024, 7.30 p.m. With Jim Carruth CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Keep Talking – An Evening With Some Of Scotland’s Leading Writers A special literary charity evening in Glasgow featuring some of Scotland’s leading writers for a 24/7 help line that offers a free health counselling support for the farming community […]
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Marjorie Lotfi Creative Conversations
Monday 18 November, 2024 – 1 – 2 p.m. University Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Marjorie Lotfi is the author of The Wrong Person to Ask, which was the recipient of the James Berry Poetry Prize 2021, Shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2024 (Forward Prizes) and […]
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Sunday, November 17, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Hattie Crissell at University of Glasgow
Monday, November 11, 2024 5 – 7pm Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place Glasgow G11 6EY Hattie Crisell: Reading and in Conversation Hattie Crissell, author of In Writing (Granta) and host of Podcast In Writing – a freelance writer based in London, who produces and hosts the podcast In Writing with Hattie Crisell, interviewing […]
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Sunday, November 10, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Shelagh Campbell, Creative Conversations
Monday, November 11, 2024 · 1 – 2pm GMT University Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Shelagh Campbell is from Glasgow and writes fiction for adults and children in Gaelic. She was selected as the Scottish Book Trust’s Gaelic New Writer Awardee for 2022. She won Gaelic Literature Awards for Best […]
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Mirrorball Showcase at CCA
8th November, 2024, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. St Mungo’s Mirrorball present A wonderful evening of poetry Award winning poet Niall Campbell is joined by Ellen McAteer, Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and Peter Clive. Tickets £7 – at the door. (Doors open 6.30 p.m.) Centre for Contemporary Arts, The Clubroom, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD […]
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Monday, October 28, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Double Book Launch: Ellen McAteer and Juana Adcock
Tuesday 5 November, 2024, 8 p.m. Tell It Slant, Locavore, 429 Victoria Road, Glasgow G42 7SA Ellen McAteer and Juana Adcock will launch their books: My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst (Ellen’s first full collection) plus I Sugar The Bones An evening of poetry and music with guests: Henry Bell, Ceylan Hay, Amy Rafferty, Jim McAteer […]
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Moira McPartlin at Aberfoyle and Strathard Book Festival 2024
Saturday 2 November, 2024 – 1 – 2 p.m. iCentre, Aberfoyle and Strathard Book Festival, Main Street, Aberfoyle, Stirlingshire, FK8 3UQ Moira McPartlin recently released Before Now: Memoir of a Toerag – written entirely in the Fife tongue. Set in the 1990s in a small village, it tells the story of a single-parent family struggling […]
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Sunday, October 27, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers
Creative Conversations: Jem Stout
Monday 4 November, 2024 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University of Glasgow, Memorial Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ A Special Creative Conversations in Collaboration with Strathclyde University’s Creative Writing Programme with Jen Stout. Jen will be in conversation with Rodge Glass. Jen Stout is a Scottish freelance journalist who has […]
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Saturday, October 26, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Midsummer Song: Book Launch and Discussion with Maria Sledmere
Tuesday, 22 October, 2024 at 6 p.m. Advanced Research Centre (ARC), Room 237C, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW Part of the Thinking Culture collection Join Maria Sledmere in conversation with Carl Lavery and Colin Herd for the launch of Midsummer Song, presented by Thinking Culture. A celebration of Midsummer Song (Hypercritique), a book by Maria Sledmere […]
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Sunday, October 20, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Conversations: Vik Shirley
Monday 21 October, 2024 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor, critic & academic from Bristol, England, now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her collection, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN), her pamphlets, Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse (Beir Bua) and Poets (The Red Ceilings […]
Book Launch: ‘Breathe In’ by Chris Dolan
Tuesday, 29 October, 2024 7 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Guest Readers Martin Goldie, David Hayman and Donna Matthew Music by John Ross and Kirsten Jackson “My first wee book of poems, bits and pieces from over 30 years of writing. A gallimaufry if ever there was one.” […]
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Creative Conversations: Laura Wittner and Juana Adcock
Monday, 14 October, 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. University Chapel, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Translation of the Route is the first collection by award-winning Argentine poet Laura Wittner to be available in English translation. In poems that are precise, frank and finely tuned, Wittner explores the specificities of daily life – thunder at night, […]
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Saturday, October 12, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Neil Young: Poetry Collection Launch
Tuesday, 15 October, 2024, 7.00 for 7.30 p.m. Neil Young reads from this essentially intimate collection.on family and community. The Song She Didn’t Sing – Seahorse Publications Avant Garde, 34-44 King St, Glasgow G1 5QT Guest Readers Ðonna Campbell, Linda Jackson, Lesley Benzie, Peter Clive and Hugh Mcmillan Musical Guests Carol Jamnejad and Iman.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
