Change of Venue Margaret Atwood Tribute Night, Wednesday 13 May, 2015
CHANGE OF VENUE To The Albany Centre, 44 Ashley Street, Woodlands, Glasgow, G3 6DS Margaret Atwood: a tribute night Wednesday 13 May 2015 6.30–9.00 p.m. EVENING EVENT Margaret Atwood is a renowned novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. Her work embraces myth, fable, fairy tales, realism and fantasy. Notable works include The Handmaid’s […]
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow
Centre for Open Studies: Creative Writings Workshops and Events Summer 2015
University of Glasgow Centre for Open Studies www.gla.ac.uk/services/centreforopenstudies/ +44 (0)141 330 1860/1853 openstudies-enquiry@glasgow.ac.uk Story in Fiction DAY EVENT Saturday 9 May 2015 10.00–16.00 (1 meeting) Alan McMunnigall BA This is a practical one-day course that focuses on story in fi ction. Story is a fundamental aspect of fi ction writing. We will learn about how […]
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Monday, May 11, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow
Twenty six writers required for Winter Charity Exhibition
Twenty-six Writers Required Deadline: 21 May 2015 at 08:00 Looking for 26 writers to be part of a winter charity exhibition of artefacts at the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh, which will run from early October 2015 to the end of March 2016. Each writer will be assigned an object and asked to write a […]
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Sunday, May 10, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
For There is Hope: The Jan Stepek Story, Sirkorski Polish Club, 17 May, 2015
Sunday, May 17 at 2:00pm – 4:30pm The Sikorski Polish Club 5 Parkgrove Terrace, Glasgow G3 7SD Here’s how the Sikorski Club put it: Next up is a showing of Martin Stepek’s magnificent film about his father – For There is Hope: The Jan Stepek Story. Seating is free but […]
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The Fragility that Marks Us by Deborah Sanderson Lillie Gallery
The Fragility that Marks Us by Deborah Sanderson Lillie Gallery 2 – 28 May Deborah Sanderson is a multi-disciplinary artist, who for this exhibition has produced a collection of work in painting, drawing and sculpture. With a contemporary twist, the work explores through the tradition of storytelling, an archive of our personal journeys as human […]
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Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World CCA Sun 10 May
Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World Screening & Discussion CCA Sun 10 May 2015 6.15pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Clash: Westway to the World is a documentary, directed by The Clash’s long-term collaborator and friend Don Letts, in which the […]
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Thursday, May 7, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema
Love Music Hate Racism The Clash: Westway to the World Screening & Discussion
Sun 10 May 2015 CCA 6.15pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema Ages 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 The Clash: Westway to the World is a documentary, directed by The Clash’s long-term collaborator and friend Don Letts, in which the band tell their side of the story. It includes archive footage of the band at […]
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Scottish Writers’ Centre: ‘In Process’ Masterclass with Janice Galloway, CCA 12 May
Tuesday 12 May, 2015 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Janice Galloway is one of the UK’s most versatile and gifted writers. She has authored novels, short stories, and non-fiction; Janice also regularly collaborates with visual artists and musicians, to produce syncretist pieces (her latest offering is a collection of poems for Calum Colvin’s […]
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Melting Pot – a poem by Leela Soma
Baltimore, Ferguson and other police brutality makes the headlines, but in Buffalo, NY they see it differently. Melting Pot The colours of the mosaic glimmer in the sun Blue pieces against the bright reds and oranges, A tiled beauty that catches the eye, to look again The platter enhances the tasty food on offer A […]
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, stories and poems
Glasgow Shawfield Riot of 1725 – Wee Scotch Whisky Tales by Ian R. Mitchell
Wee Scotch Whisky Tales by Ian R. Mitchell (Angels’ Share) 2015 £4.99 Chapter on Glasgow Shawfield Riot of 1725 THE UNION OF 1707, THE MALT TAX -AND WHISKY When Scotland and England unified their parliaments in 1707, there was very little of what we would now call whisky distilled in Scotland, apart from in scattered […]
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Aye Write: A Duo of Debut Authors – Sue Lawrence and Kate Tough review Mary Irvine
A duo of debut authors, Sue Lawrence and Kate Tough. Include the literary agent, Jenny Brown, and the trio was complete for the presentation of ‘Female Friendships in Fiction’. Having worked in the Scottish parliament for some years Kate turned her attention to fiction. Is there a connection there? Her debut novel is ‘Head for […]
Monday, May 4, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Aye Write 2015 Competition
Aye Write Customer Survey Win a £100 gift card If you didn’t manage to complete a paper copy of the survey during Aye Write here’s another chance, with the online version. Take a few minutes to let us know what you thought of this year’s festival and you’ll have the opportunity to enter a prize […]
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015
Aye Write: Showcase of Debut Authors, Sara Baume and Margaret Montgomery
Review by Ciara MacLaverty Tramp Press and Cargo Publishing have enticing names in the world of independent publishers. They sound hip and intriguing, as if they know how to bag a cult novel when they find one. In this Aye Write Showcase their debut authors – Sara Baume (Tramp) and Margaret Montgomery (Cargo) exude a […]
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Monday, April 27, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Booked! Creative Writing Workshops with Allan Wilson
Creative Writing Workshops with Allan Wilson Tuesdays 12th and 19th May Parkhall Library 7:00 pm Allan Wilson is one of the most highly regarded emerging writers in Scotland. His debut short story collection Wasted in Love was described as being ‘a terrific debut anthology’ by Tom Leonard and Alan Bissett said that Allan Wilson ‘might […]
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Scotland’s Midsummer Festival of Arts, Perth 19 – 21 June, 2015
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Wee Literary Festival, St Louis, Graham Fulton, Jim Byrne 29 April, 2015
Another great night at St Louis with host extraordinaire Linda Jackson. A wee birdie told me that also on the bill will be the amazing poet, Stephen Watt . www.grahamfulton-poetry.com/ www.songsbyjimbyrne.com www.stlouis-cafebar.co.uk/ St Louis, 734 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD
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Sunday, April 26, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Arches Commons: The New Bill Sun 26 Apr 2015
The Arches & Behaviour 2015 present The Arches Commons: The New Bill Sun 26 Apr 2015 The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8DL If young people are the future, when are they allowed to shape it? The New Bill is a research collective directed by Stephanie Katie Hunter. Since undergoing a placement with Sarah […]
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Saturday, April 25, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Smoke that Thunders, poems by Eveline Pye – Glasgow Readings 2015
7 pm Thursday 28th May, 2015CCA Clubroom350 Sauchiehall Street,Glasgow G2 3JD 8pm Monday 1st June, 2015Sammy Dow’s69 Nithsdale Road,Glasgow G41 2AJ Eveline Pye’s African poems are wonderful. Scorchingly vivid, they transport us so we too are right there among people and voices and unfamiliar flora and fauna, among unflinchingly recorded sounds and smells and sights, […]
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Friday, April 24, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Solas Showcase at Project Cafe, Friday 24 April, 2015
7:30pm – 10:30pm Sunny days are finally upon us, meaning that it can’t be long till Solas Festival- Scotland’s mid-summer, weekend-long celebration of the arts- sets up camp in the beautiful site of The Bield in Perthshire. For a little taste of what you can expect from the festival, which runs from19 – 21 June, […]
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Sexology Season, Glasgow 18 April – 31 July 2015
Various venues across Glasgow 18 April – 31 July 2015 Explore sexology, the interdisciplinary study of human sexuality, through this eclectic season of 37 events. Our partners are Glasgow Women’s Library, The Arches (Behaviour Festival), conFAB, Fun Palaces and Aye Write Festival . The programme offers something for anyone prepared to undress their mind and […]
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Aye Write 2015: The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence of Edwin Morgan review by Maggie Graham
Maggie Graham John Coyle & James McGonigal: The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence of Edwin Morgan. Chaired by Jim Carruth. As the editors of Edwin Morgan’s correspondence, John Coyle and James McGonigal could have made this event a dry academic treatise, but it was much more. McGonigal who studied with Morgan at Glasgow University, is his […]
Mary Irvine’s blog: Margaret Harrison 1918 – 2015 Safe with her Saviour.
It was a privilege to have known you, Margaret. My first sight of Margaret was of a physically frail, elderly lady, walking with the aid of a frame, coming through the door of a room at the Community Centre. It was my inaugural visit to the Alexandria’s Writers’ group. I quickly learned, at subsequent meetings, […]
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Thursday, April 23, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene
Aye Write 2015: Kate Hamer & Lisa O’Donnell: Family Secrets, Fri 24 April
6:00PM – 7:00PM Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow Two authors visit Aye Write! for the first time to discuss their new work.Kate Hamer & Lisa O’Donnell: Family Secrets Lisa O’Donnell won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize with her last novel ‘The Death of Bees’ and her latest, ‘Closed Doors’, is set in Rothesay and is […]
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Aye Write 2015 Free Events
Free Events Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival is delighted to host this series of free and community events that will be running throughout the festival. Glasgow’s Learning will present a series named If I Could, I Would… with workshops and talks celebrating adult learners writing. We welcome back Amnesty International for their popular talks […]
Aye Write 23 April: Jackie Kay, Zoe Strachan, Allan Radcliffe & Kerry Hudson: Out There – Scottish LGBT Writing
23rd Apr 2015 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow Contributors to the first new anthology of LGBT writing from Scotland in over a decade share some of the highlights ‘Out There’ is the first new anthology of LGBT writing from Scotland in over a decade. By turns provocative, moving and hilarious, […]
Poetry Events Aye Write 2015
There’s a brilliant selection of poetry events to choose from at Aye Write All events at The Mitchell Library – tickets now on sale. Friday 17th April – 7.30pm John Coyle & James McGonigal: The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence of Edwin Morgan Saturday 18th 4.30pm Kei Miller, Malika Booker and Rachel Mars: Sex in […]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write 2015, James Morton – review by Mary Irvine
Did you know that medium eggs weigh c. 55grms? I didn’t but I do now, thanks to the talk given to a large and receptive audience at the Aye Write! festival on Saturday, April 18th by James Morton. James, who qualifies as a doctor this year and was runner-up in the 2012 Great British Bake-off, […]
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Aye Write: John Mackay – The Books That Made Me – 18 April, 2015
John MacKay: The Books That Made Me Aye Write 18th Apr 2015 • 12:00PM – 1:00PM The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow One of STV’s most familiar faces talks about the books which have most inspired him throughout his life Journalist, broadcaster and novelist, John MacKay has been a familiar face on our TV screens […]
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Monday, April 13, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write: Bill Oddie, Unplucked, 22nd April, 2015
Bill Oddie: Unplucked 22nd Apr 2015 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow The face (and voice) of mainstream birdwatching in Britain (and former Goodie) comes to Aye Write to discuss his recent work Bill Oddie has been the voice and face of birding broadcasting for more than three decades. Those of […]
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Saturday, April 11, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write: Philip Miller & Matthew Plampin: The ‘Art’ of Fiction 18th Apr 2015
Philip Miller & Matthew Plampin: The ‘Art’ of Fiction 18th Apr 2015 • 12:00PM – 1:00PM The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow A discussion of fine art in Fiction from the author of Will & Tom and The Herald’s Arts Correspondent Philip Miller, the arts correspondent for The Herald has published his debut novel ‘The […]
Friday, April 10, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
