Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events.

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Books, talks and poetry events. Glasgow has everything on offer for lovers of literature, including major book festivals, book launches, poetry slams and spoken word open mics.

Plenty to choose from with events showcasing new talent as well as acclaimed writers and poets.

Events and New Books To Watch Out For

Bee Rowlatt – In Search of Mary, Aye Write, The Mitchell 10 March, 2016

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10th Mar 2016  •  6:00PM – 7:00PM  •  Mitchell Library North St, Glasgow G3 7DN Bee Rowlatt’s extraordinary journey in search of the life and legacy of the first celebrity feminist: Mary Wollstonecraft. Toddler in tow, Bee Rowlatt embarked on an extraordinary journey in search of the life and legacy of the first celebrity feminist: […]

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Helen MacKinven Glasgow Women’s Library Story Cafe´Special, Thursday 25 February, 2016.

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Story Café Special: Helen MacKinven February 25, 2016 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm    GWL’s Story Café provides a uniquely intimate way of hearing from some of the best Scottish women writers. Helen MacKinven will chat about her fierce and funny debut novel, Talk of the Toun. An uplifting black comedy of love, family life […]

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Extra Second IV: Love is ….. Tuesday 15 March, 2016, The Blue Chair

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A Night of Poetry at: The Blue Chair, 85 High Street, Glasgow G1 1NB With Stephen Watt  

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Meg Rosoff, Aye Write! 19 March, 2016.

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Meg Rosoff – Jonathan Unleashed 19th Mar 2016  •  4:30PM – 5:30PM    Mitchell Librar, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN Her first novel, How I Live Now, sold over one million copies and was recently made into a film. Meg will be discussing her first novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed. Meg Rosoff grew up in (a […]

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Limmy – ‘Daft Wee Stories’ Aye Write! 2016 Friday 11 March.

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  LIMMY   Daft Wee Stories   11 March, 2016   19.30 – 20.30   £10   Daft Wee Stories is Limmy’s first book. It is a collection of stories. There are short stories. There are longer stories. There are stupid stories. There are thoughtful stories. There are upside-down stories. There are normal-way-up stories. There […]

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St Mungo Mirrorball Poetry Open Mic Aye Write 17 March, 2016

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  ST MUNGO’S MIRRORBALL POETRY OPEN MIC   Aye Write!   Thursday 17 March, 2016   18.00 – 19.00 p.m.   Glasgow’s Poetry Network host their popular open mic session, an opportunity for budding and established poets to read their own work. So whether you have a number of poetry collections out or are reading […]

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Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel: Glasgow

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  Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel: Glasgow Sunday 21 February, 2016  7:30 PM – 8:30 PM   The Glad Cafe Tickets £6 Book at Buy tickets online Harry’s got a problem. Maybe you do too. He keeps buying things to feel better, but they just make him more miserable. So he […]

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Louise Welsh at Aye Write! introducing Andrew Michael Hurley and Lorna Gibb 19 March, 2016

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Louise Welsh introduces Andrew Michael Hurley and Lorna Gibb 19 March, 2016. 4.30 – 5.30 p.m. The Mitchell,  Louise Welsh introduces two debuts with a gothic feel. In Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney, two brothers and their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney every year. […]

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Stuart Cosgrove, Aye Write! 11 March, 2016.

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Stuart Cosgrove Young Rebel Soul 11  March, 2016 6 p.m. Well known from his many appearance on TV and Radio (especially his opinionated weekly stint on BBC Radio Scotland’s Off the Ball), Stuart Cosgrove is appearing at Aye Write! this year as the author of Young Soul Rebels a compelling and intimate story of Northern […]

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Aye Write! Tasha Kavanagh and Laura Powell Saturday 12 March, 2016

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Unsettling, Obsessive Fiction 12.00 – 13.00 Saturday 12 March, 2016 £6 A pair of eerie and deeply moving novels that will appeal to fans of books that leave you emotionally drained and just a little bit spooked. Tasha Kavanagh was shortlisted for the 2015 COSTA First Novel Award for Things We Have in Common, a […]

Read the full article: Aye Write! Tasha Kavanagh and Laura Powell Saturday 12 March, 2016

The Science of Dr Who, Wee Write! The Mitchell, 5 March, 2016

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5th Mar 2016  •  3:30PM – 4:30PM  •  Mitchell Library Take a fun-filled journey through the fantastic worlds of The Doctor.The Science of Doctor Who Space and time, Cybermen and Daleks, Utopias and killer computers: take a fun-filled journey through the fantastic worlds of The Doctor.With raps, facts and much merriment and mirth, join author […]

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Noir at the Bar, Aye Write! 13 March, 2016, The Mitchell

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 Part of Aye Write! 13th Mar 2016 Time 7:30pm – 9:00pm Based on a popular format imported from the States, Noir at the Bar Glasgow is delighted to bring its occasionally chaotic, always entertaining series of author appearances – along with a special pop-up bar – to Aye Write and the Mitchell Library. Run by […]

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Stowaway, Platform, 19 and 20 February, 2016

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Stowaway is the new show from two-time Fringe First winners and “bright young things of British Theatre” (Observer). A Boeing 777 begins its descent towards Heathrow. The wheels unfold out of the belly of the plane. The frozen body of a stowaway is tipped out and cuts through the clear morning sky. In the car […]

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Independent State of Happiness‎ Wee Write! Big Gaelic Beasties / Biastagan Mòra na Gàidhlig! Saturday 5 March, 2016 The Mitchell

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Saturday 5 March, 2016. Mitchell Library, Glasgow G3 7DN      Part of Wee Write! After delivering hundreds of fun Contemporary Gaelic Arts Outreach workshops in Circus Skills, Storytelling, Drama & Graffiti Art in schools and communities across Scotland… Tha Ariel Killick ann an Glaschu airson Fèis Wee Write agus a’ tilleadh gu Ionad Sgeulachdan na […]

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Aye Write Programme 2016 – 10 March – 20 March.

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Aye Write Introduces New Strands Bringing Global Literary Talent To Glasgow Throughout 2016 Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival returns to the Mitchell Library on March 10 and runs until March 20, 2016, while Wee Write!, Glasgow’s Book Festival for Children and Young People, runs from February 29 to March 5, 2016.  The festival is more […]

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Paul Smith, Book Signing at The Lighthouse Wednesday 24 February, 2016.

Paul Smith set to return to Glasgow for event and book signing Britain’s foremost designer, Paul Smith, will travel to Glasgow later this month to talk to design students and young designers as well hold a public book signing.   On Wednesday, 24 February, Paul will return to The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Design and […]

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Rebus: A Question of Blood – adapted by Chris Dolan for BBC Radio 4

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Rebus: A Question Of Blood – Ian Rankin   Adapted by Chris Dolan Episode 1: Saturday 13 February 2.30PM Janice Forsyth Show PICK OF THE WEEK ‘kept me rigid throughout’ ‘plotting clear as crystal’ ‘resonant, foreboding, silkily plotted’ ‘Beautifully adapted by Chris Dolan, a brilliant writer in his own right’ (! honest) Radio Times PICK […]

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Scottish National Slam Championships, Saturday 13 February, 2016, The Tron

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Scottish National Slam Championships      Saturday, February 13, 2016 – 7:45 PM Tron Theatre This is the contest to be Scottish Poetry Slam Champion for the year. And the winner goes to Paris to represent Scotland in The World Series. Slam poetry is a thing of verve, wit, insight and heartache delivered in bite-size […]

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Cafe with Heart. Waterstones, Byres Road, 10 February, 2016.

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‘One in five – your risk of heart failure: what can we do about it?’ February 10th, 2016 – 7 p.m. With Prof John McMurray, University of Glasgow – Professor of Cardiology (Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences), School of Medicine. Free Event Come and join Prof John McMurray in conversation about Heart Failure: ‘One […]

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Love Words, Open Mic on the theme of Love, GoMA 11 February 2016

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Love Words – Open Mic Thursday, February 11, 2016 GoMA Royal Exchange Square, G1 3 AH  2:00 PM – 6:30 PM    Poems and Stories under the theme of Love Love Words is an event organised by the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and which takes place in GoMA Library in Royal Exchange Square on Thursday […]

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Stuart Cosgrove: Young Soul Rebels – A personal history of Northern Soul 11 March, 2016. Aye Write

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STUART COSGROVE   Young Soul Rebels:   A Personal History of Northern Soul   11 March, 2016. 18.00 – 19.00    £9   Well known from his many appearances on TV and Radio (especially his opinionated weekly stint on BBC Radio Scotland’s Off the Ball), Stuart Cosgrove is appearing at Aye Write! this year as […]

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Optograms, Launch of Stephen Watt’s New Pamphlet The Tron 11 February, 2016

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Launch of Optograms Stephen Watt’s new pamphlet collection The Tron  Thursday, February 11, 2016 8 PM   Tron Theatre 63 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HB Stephen Watt – Poet

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Pádraig Ó Baoighill – ‘Rabbie Burns: The Link with Ireland’ CCA 16 February, 2016

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16 February, 2016 CCA Book Launch: ‘Rabbie Burns: An Nasc le hÉirinn’ (The Link with Ireland) Pádraig Ó Baoighill is an award winning Irish writer, journalist, and broadcaster who has more than twenty published books. His latest book, ‘Rabbie Burns: An Nasc le hÉirinn’ (The Link with Ireland). In this Irish language book, Pádraig explores […]

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St Mungo’s Mirrorball Showcase with Tom Leonard, 11 February, 2016

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CCA Thu 11 February 2016 7pm, Free and unticketed, Clubroom All ages 0141 352 4900 Tom Leonard (born 1944) is a Scottish poet, writer and critic. He is best known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O’Clock News. His work frequently deals with […]

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Winter Words Festival Pitlochry Festival Theatre 12 – 20 February 2016

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12 – 20 February, 2016 Winter Words Festival Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port Na Craig, Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross PH16 5DR Telephone: 01796 484 626 www.pitlochry.org.uk The twelfth Winter Words Festival welcomes a wealth of literary talent to Pitlochry Festival Theatre.  Some of the performers include Gregor Fisher, Magnus Linklaker, Tam Dalyell, Ronnie Browne (The Corries), Malachy […]

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STUC LGBT Workers’ Committee: Before Stonewall– 4 February, 2016

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STUC LGBT Workers’ Committee: Before Stonewall Thu 4 February 2016 CCA 7.15pm, £3 + £1 booking fee, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 To celebrate LGBT History Month the STUC LGBT Workers’ Committee presents a screening of Before Stonewall. This film is a decade-by-decade history of homosexuality in America from 1920s Harlem […]

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Submission Opportunity – Scottish Writers Centre

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Spring Speakeasy: In Partnership with Aye Write 2016 Thursday 10th March, 2016 6 p.m., The Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN ‘Dust off those completed masterpieces and unfinished gems and join us as we toast the written word with readings in English, Gaelic, and Scots from some of the best new talent in Scotland. We’ll be celebrating the original […]

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Muriel Spark Lecture, Wednesday 17 February, 2016, The Hunterian

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Overtaking on the Inside: Muriel Spark’s ‘The Takeover’ Forty Years down the Line A chance to revisit Muriel Spark’s novel’ The Takeover’, forty years since its publication. Highly criticised upon release, this challenging read led to one reader proclaiming ‘What will Muriel Spark do next?’ The lecture by Willy Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies at […]

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