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
Aye Write: sex in the afternoon. Kei Miller, Malika Booker and Rachel Mars 18 April
Kei Miller, Malika Booker and Rachel Mars: Sex in the Afternoon 18th Apr 2015 • 4:30PM – 5:30PM The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow How can we express our desires? What stops us? Sex in all its joy, pain and glory at Aye Write! Join Forward Prize winning writer Kei Miller, spoken word and multidisciplinary […]
Competition Aye Write: Win two pairs of tickets for Helen Lederer Sat. 18 April
Helen Lederer – Losing it Win two pairs of tickets for Helen Lederer’s event on Saturday 18th April at 7.30pm Question: What was the name of Helen’s character in Absolutely Fabulous?A) CatalinaB) CatrionaC) Camilla Please send your answer on an email with the subject ‘Helen Lederer competition’ to ayewrite@glasgowlife.org.uk entries must be received by Monday 13th April. […]
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2015, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Scottish Writers Centre: Margaret Elphinstone and Chris Salt, 14 April, 2015
Margaret Elphinstone & Chrys Salt Scottish Writers Centre Tuesday 14th April 2015; 7pm to 8.30pm CCA Club Room, Glasgow. . Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Two of Scotland’s finest writers, Novelist Margaret Elphinstone and poet Chrys Salt will discuss the challenge of writing in the voices of other cultures. Does an author have to belong to […]
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Saturday, April 4, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Worldwide Reading in Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, Tuesday, April 21
Led by the International Literature Festival Berlin and the Lepsiushaus Potsdam, there will be a worldwide reading from “The Book of Whispers” by Varujan Vosganian to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. In addition to remembering the victims of this horrible event, we also want to raise awareness of the fact that […]
Thursday, April 2, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Verse Hearse Book Launch Special, 31 March, 2015 The Gilchrist Postgraduate Club
The Verse Hearse Book Launch Special: ‘The Road North’ by Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn 31 March, 2015 –8 p.m. The Gilchrist Postgraduate ClubGilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, G12 8QQ THE VERSE HEARSE (where poetry comes to die)poetry | booze | banter | open mic | 100% FREE The verse hearse […]
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Fail Better: Prrrrrrrrotest! Thursday, 9 April, 2015, McChuills
Fail Better: Prrrrrrrrotest! Thursday, 9 April, 2015at 8:00pm McChuills Glasgow. 40 High Street, G1 1NL Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It’s not. WHAT THE HECK IS PROTEST? I dinna have a clue, but these folks might: LOKI storms back to the stage punk folk gurgling […]
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SWC: Publishing and Performing Your Poetry, 31 March, 2015
CCA Club Room, CCA Glasgow Tuesday 31st March 2015; 6.30 – 8.30pm Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars: Publishing and Performing Your Poetry March 31st The Scottish Book Trust Writing Seminars are aimed at writers with an interest in publication; they offer advice from industry experts on various aspects of the process. This seminar will explore […]
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Ex Libris Book Fair The Mitchell Library, Saturday 18 April, 2015
Ex Libris Book Fair The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow Saturday 18 April 12 – 6pm Free event – drop in We are pleased to welcome the Ex Libris Book Fair to the Mitchell Library foyer. Organised by Ess Publications and Generator Publications and featuring small presses, indie comic creators, and artist book makers, Ex […]
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Whose Voice Is It Anyway? with Margaret Elphinstone & Chrys Salt Tue 14 April 2015 CCA
Scottish Writers’ CentreWhose Voice Is It Anyway? with Margaret Elphinstone & Chrys Salt Tue 14 April 2015 CCA 7pm, £6 (£3) on the door, Free to members, ClubroomAges 14+ when accompanied by Novelist Margaret Elphinstone and poet Chrys Salt will discuss the challenge of writing in the voices of other times and cultures. Does an […]
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Student Showcase, STUC, Tuesday 31st March, 2015
Featuring readings of work from Centre for Open Studies students. Student Showcase 31/3/15, 6.30-9pm, STUC Price £5 (you can pay on the door) There will also be a cheap bar. All welcome. How to get there Download directions
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World Book Night Party Glasgow Women’s Library April 23, 201
World Book Night Party Glasgow Women’s Library April 23, 2015 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm ‘We love World Book Night! And we’d love to spend it with you! Come along and pick up your free book(s) and try your luck in our World Book Night Quiz. A night of friendly book chat, readings and […]
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Women of the Necropolis Glasgow Women’s Library Event April 12, 2015
Women of the Necropolis Glasgow Women’s Library Event April 12, 2015 @ 2:00 pm, 4:00 p £6.00 / £10.00 Experience a fantastic women’s history walking tour which digs the dirt on Victorian society, unearths women’s achievements and exhumes the histories of women buried in Glasgow’s Necropolis, as featured in Clare Balding’s book Walking Home. Tour […]
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