West End Festival 2016: Poetry at Hillhead Library, Sunday 12 June
Come and be moved to laughter, tears and all the emotions in between. Hillhead Library348 Byres Road, G12 8AP Sunday 12 Jun 2:30pm Presented by Cinammon Press and Indigo Dreams Press. Six prize-winning Scottish poets have teamed up to present an afternoon of striking and original poetry. Andy Allan, A C Clarke, Magi Gibson, Eileen […]
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Saturday, June 11, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, West End Festival 2016, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Calling all poets and writers: University of Glasgow Creative Writing West End Festival 2016
Call for Submissions Open to writers and poets! Do you fancy reading some of your newest writing at the West End Festival? University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing folks are hosting a ‘New Writers Showcase’ on Tuesday 21st June 2016 at “So, What Comes Next?” a hip pub at 182 Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow. Submit a […]
Book Launch: Buy Buy Baby by Helen MacKinven, 7 July, 2016 – Falkirk
Buy Buy Baby Helen MacKinven Behindthewall, 14 Melville Street, Falkirk, FK1 1HZ 7 July, 2016 – 7 p.m. What price tag would you put on a baby? Set in and around Glasgow, Buy Buy Baby is a moving and funny story of life, loss and longing.Packed full of bitchy banter, it follows the bittersweet quest […]
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book launch: This Far Back Everything Shimmers by Vicki Husband, Thur 30 June, Waterstones Byres Road
THIS FAR BACK EVERYTHING SHIMMERS by Vicki Husband Book launch on Thursday 30th June – at Waterstones Books, 351 – 355 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AU The universe has never been depicted so intimately, nor the mundane so infused with stellar significance as it is in the poetry of Vicki Husband. This debut collection is […]
Monday, June 6, 2016 | 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 Sma’ Shot Slam 2016, Paisley Town Hall, Saturday 2 July, 2016
The Sma Shot Slam 2016 Saturday 2 July, 2016 7.30 p.m. Paisley Town HallSecond annual Sma’ Shot Festival poetry slam event.COMPETITORS vie for £50 prize money and a place in the Scottish Slam Finals in Edinburgh in March 2017.AUDIENCE get entertained by top performance poets with musical interludes.EVERYONE can visit the well stocked licenced bar.And […]
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Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow, Ten Writers Telling Lies at West End Festival
At this year’s West End Festival Ten Writers are participating in an event with musician Jim Byrne. Of the ten five attend Alan McMunnigal’s Creative Writing Classes at Glasgow University. Some have also studied at Glasgow University’s M.Litt in Creative Writing. They include writers whose work has been published in Germany and by Legend Press, […]
Love’s Long Road by G D Harper
Set in and around Glasgow’s West End in the 1970s, Love’s Long Road is GD Harper’s debut novel. Described by the Sunday Post as ‘a gritty summer read’, it is the story about a young woman leading a double life because of fear and guilt about her past. The eBook is on promotion with Amazon […]
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Lies of the Land – Chris Dolan, Book Launch Review by Pat Byrne
Chris Dolan promised ‘a book launch with a difference ‘ on 1 June, 2016, when he launched his second Maddy Shannon mystery novel with the help of his many talented friends – it certainly worked out that way. There was a great turn out at Glasgow Caledonian University on a beautiful sunny evening and the […]
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Friday, June 3, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
STFU 6th Humanity’s Afterparty The Blue Chair Friday 3 June, 2016
The Blue Chair, 85 High Street G1 1NB 7 p.m. #rd June, 2016 STFU – Spoken Word That Leaves A Mark! STFU is back to get its monthly fix of eyeballs and you lot get to sit around and enjoy words and shit. Also, secretly we siphon off your precious bodily fluids and sell them […]
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Aye Write! An evening with Tess Gerritsen, Mitchell Library, 21 July, 2016 6.30 p.m.
21st Jul 2016 • 6:30PM – 7:30PM • Mitchell Library The New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, now gives us a gripping stand-alone thriller: Playing with Fire. Tess Gerritsen, the New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, now gives us a gripping stand-alone thriller: Playing with […]
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Book launch: The Wrong Child by Barry Gornell, Cup, Merchant City, Wed 1 June, 2016
Wednesday 1 June at 6.30pm Celebrate the launch of The Wrong Child, Barry Gornell’s brilliant second novel. Cup, Virginia Court, in Glasgow’s Merchant City. The novel is the story of a village where 21 of the 22 children die in a disaster and only the ‘wrong child’ survives. Barry is […]
Mary Irvine’s Blog: Booked! The Grand Finale
The Grand Finale to a successful festival and who better to ensure it finished on a high than Rhona Cameron, TV personality and comedienne who had her own popular sitcom ‘Rhona’. Another well attended event with over 40 people turning out on quite a dreich night. (Note how I slip into the local patter!) The […]
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Scotland the Best – 12th edition of Peter Irvine’s Bestselling Guide
Essential reading for all Scottish tourists and handy or locals as well. The true Scot’s insider’s guide to the very best Scotland has to offer. Fully revised and updated in Pete Irvine’s own unique style. Includes over 2000 recommendations for every type of adventure. Trusted for over 20 years, this fully comprehensive and independent guide to […]
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Thursday, May 26, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Travel
Fail Better: if you close the door, McChuills, 9 June, 2016
McChuills, 40 High Street, G1 1NL the night could last forever. Keep the sunshine out and say hello to never. All the people are dancing and they’re having such fun, I wish it could happen to YOU Come away from the sunshine and join us in the arched neverland of McChuills to hear some of […]
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The University of Glasgow: Friendly Shelves
The first full, and gloriously illustrated, account of the birth and growth of The University of Glasgow Library from the Renaissance and Reformation; through the emerging Enlightenment; Industrial Expansion & Migration; War, Peace & Opportunity and on to New Horizons is being publicly launched at the University in mid June. This new book of 288 […]
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Scottish Writers’ Centre ‘In Process’ Masterclass with John McShane CCA Tue 21 June 2016
7pm, £6/£3 (Free for SWC Members) tickets on the door, CCA Clubroom 18+ Alfred Hitchcock famously stated that three things were needed to make a good movie: the script, the script, and the script. Screenwriting is completely unlike other forms of writing in that the script is not the finished work, but more akin to […]
Monday, May 23, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scottish Writers’ Centre ‘In Process’ Masterclass: Gerry Loose Tues 7 June, 2016
Tue 7 June 2016 CCA 7pm, £6/£3 (Free for SWC Members) tickets on the door, Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 On Thursday 26 May Gerry will be a featured guest on Pulse Community Radio with Shirley Whiteside, a professional book reviewer. Shirley will be talking books with Gerry at 2:00 pm on Pulse 98.4 Radio. […]
St Aloysius Primary School – Bookbug Week 2016
Bookbug Week 16–22 May 2016 Angela Proctor visited St Aloysius Primary for a book reading with children from classes P3 – P7 as part of Bookbug Week, 2016. Angela read to them from her book Thumble Tumble and the Ollpheist. This is a children’s novel about a wee witch from the magical Isle of Arran […]
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Chris Dolan’s ‘Lies of the Land’ Book Launch, 1 June, 2016, Glasgow Caledonian University
A book launch with a difference…. Lies Of the Land, the second Maddy Shannon mystery by Chris Dolan Glasgow Caledonian University, 6.30 Wednesday June 1st, 2016. Should be fun, and it would be great if you could come along. Celebrate the first day of summer with a mini, all singin’ all dancin’ (well, mibbe not […]
Scottish Writer’s Centre, Speakeasy, CCA, Tuesday 24 May, 2016
Tuesday 24 May 2016: CCA Club Room at 7:00 pm Spring Speakeasy & Open Mic Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD Dust of your gladrags and put on your best prose for a night of song and storytelling. Prohibition-style!!! Join us as we toast the written word with readings in English, […]
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Ian Macpherson, The Everlasting Book Tour, The Hidden Lane Gallery, Friday 20 May, 2016.
Ian Macpherson gave up an award-winning career in standup to become a full-time writer. This is the story of his journey from performer to author. Let it be a lesson to you. First performed Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival 2015 ‘Droll, deadpan and devastatingly funny. We are instantly drawn into the sheer absurdity of his crazy, […]
Monday, May 16, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
John Douglas Millar: Brutalist Readings Book Launch CCA Monday 16 May, 2016
6pm, Free (unticketed), Clubroom CCA 12+ 0141 352 490 Aye-Aye Books invites you to the launch of Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature, published by Sternberg Press. John Douglas Millar’s Brutalist Readings: Essays on Literature is a significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art. Featuring […]
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Seeds of Thought, Poetry Night, CCA Friday 13 May, 2016
Fri 13 May 2016 CCA 7.30pm, Free and unticketed, Clubroom Ages 18+ Seeds of Thought poetry night is a fun relaxed evening of spoken word and music. An open mic session invites those who want to join in the fun, or just sit back and take in the performances. No two events are the same […]
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Mary Irvine’s Blog: Booked Festival 2016
West Dunbartonshire Booked! Festival 2016 Sold out! So stated the website from which one purchased tickets for the above annual and most successful event of an eclectic (love these Greek words – wonder why!) mix of authors and their works. Having lost out on the earlier visit of Irvine Welsh to Dumbarton library I ensured […]
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Southside Fringe Festival: The Muse at Finn’s Place, Friday 27 May, 2016
Literary Night hosted by Linda Jackson with the writer Janet Paisley Music from Linda Jaxson and Graham Mackintosh Finn’s Place, Langside Church, 167 Ledard Rd, Glasgow G42 9QU Janet Paisley set up the original Sammy Dow’s Writers night and worked as Writer in Residence in Southside libraries. A huge inspiration […]
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Booked! Festival of Words, Evening of poetry, storytelling and song, Clydebank Town Hall Monday 16 May, 2016.
Booked! at Clydebank Town Hall An evening of entertainment with poetry, storytelling and song. Monday , 16 May, 2016 – 7.30 p.m. £5 – Or full table for eight £30 Buy tickets online Join Rally & Broad, aka poets Jenny Lindsay and Rachel McCrum , for an evening of poetry, storytelling, music, dancing, spraffing, raffling, […]
Booked – West Dunbartonshire Book Festival, 2016
The Festival runs until 20 May, 2016 with events at various libraries and Clydebank Town Hall An award-winning TV comic, a former prisoner, a veteran sports journalist and a popular cabaret club are among the acts coming to West Dunbartonshire for this year’s Booked! Festival of Words. Watch out for books, spoken word and music. […]
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New Material Slam, 21 May, 2016, Carlton Studios
New Material Slam 21 May, 2016 Carlton Studios, Carlton PLace, POETRY SLAM – Open to everyone. But poets must only use pieces which have not been aired at a slam before. So this is the chance to win a slam when you’re not up against all those practised perfectionists who have been peddling the same […]
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Sunday, May 8, 2016 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Scots’ Rock – Poems by Carolyn Patricia Richardson
Scots’Rock is unleashed on the world! Enjoy. Poetry about Music and more. Tuesday 10 May, 2016 Favourites are all there..Deacon Blue, Jim Byrne ,The Proclaimers, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Jim Kerr, Paulo Nutini, Linda Jaxson, Sharleen Spitieri and the Average White Band. Also some Gaelic and a personal reminiscence about Hogmanay. Newly written poems are […]
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Red Squirrel Press Publication Launch, CCA, Tuesday 10 May, 2016
EVENT POSTPONED Red Squirrel Press Publication Launch Tue 10 May 2016 CCA 7pm, Free & unticketed, Clubroom 18+ 0141 352 4900 Scottish Writers’ Centre and Red Squirrel Press celebrate the launch of four new publications: William Bonar’s poetry pamphlet, ‘Offering’; Graham Fulton’s latest full-length poetry collection, ‘Brian Wilson in Swansea Bus Station’; Carolyn Patricia […]
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