Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events.

Sang fur the Wandert, or Song for the Lost by Janet Paisley

  Sang fur the Wandert, or Song for the Lost, is the sixth collection of poetry from the award-winning author, playwright and poet, Janet Paisley. Written in both Scots and English, with some works rendered in both languages, the poems included here focus on Scotland and the world, touching upon personal and international events from […]

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Join the audience for The Big Debate with Gordon Brewer, Glasgow

The Big Debate with Gordon Brewer University of Glasgow 9th January, 2015 BBC Radio Scotland’s The Big Debate with Gordon Brewer comes live from The Senate Room, Glasgow University (main building) on Friday 9th January 2015 and we’re looking for members of the public to take part in the audience.The Big Debate programme has been […]

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Charity Book signing of The Seven Sisters of Carbeth, 12 & 19th Dec

 Charity Book signing of The Seven Sisters of Carbeth Friday 12th and 19th December, 2014 – 11am – 2pm.  Dalmuir Credit Union, 15 Abbotsford Road, Clydebank, G81 1PA For all Faerie, Elf and Pixie lovers, a lovely addition for your Xmas stocking! A delightful book based on tales from the heart of Scotland for teens […]

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Literary Lunchtimes, Wednesday 10 December, 2014

This autumn’s series of “Literary Lunchtimes” concludes with Shetlanders Christine de Luca (the Edinburgh Makar) and Robert Alan Jamieson Bar Gandolfi, 64 Albion Street, Merchant City, G1 1NY Sponsored by School of Humanities – University of Strathclyde Wednesday 10th December at 1 p.m.          

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Heaney, Irish Pages, Festive Glasgow Launch, Tell It Slant, 12 December

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Centre for Open Studies Creative Writing Evening STUC Tues Dec 9th

Creative Writing University of Glasgow Centre for Open Studies Come along and hear creative writing students reading their work Tuesday, 9th December, 2014 – 7 p.m. STUC, Glasgow. £5 – Please telephone 0141 330 1835 for tickets (come early if paying at door) STUC, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NG www.glasgow.ac.uk/openstudies

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Nights at The Project Cafe, Open Mic and Pizza, 5 December

        Nights at The Project Cafe Friday 5th December 2014 at 5:30pm – 10:00pm Open Mic and Pizza Got that frosty Friday feeling? Come on down to The Project Cafe and bathe in the warmth of the players, performers and poets and sharing their talents. Oh and not forgetting the best pizza in town!!!! […]

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Faiul Better Second Time Around, McChuills, December, 11th

         Fail Better Second Time Around Thursday, December 11 2014 8:00pm McChuills Glasgow A second wind our world spins. Fail Better for another year. An so to celebrate: HOWIE REEVE revealed inside a piano words to tear from ELLEN MCATEER HARRY GILES in firm farm form rhythmic mouthworder CAT HEPBURN something something caberet words […]

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Sangs an Clatter, The Glad Cafe 2nd December

The Village Storytelling Centre presents: Sangs an Clatter – Storytelling Evening Tuesday 2 December- 7.30 p.m. The Glad Cafe, Glasgow Sangs an’ Clatter is a performance night from The Village Storytelling Centre, all about mixing traditional and contemporary forms of storytelling. This December’s Sangs an’ Clatter is guest-curated by storytelling Dada folk band Dangle Manatee […]

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Mother India at Home, Book Launch, Waterstone’s 6 Dec.

Mother India at Home Recipes Pictures Stories Monir Mohammed and Martin Gray Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Saturday 6 December,  2014 1.00 p.m. Mother India at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow, has been an institution since 1996 and specialises in dishes such as ginger and green chilli fish pakora, seasoned Scottish haddock with Puy lentils, and Delhi-style Scottish […]

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Vagabond Voices Celebrate Christmas CCA, 11 December, 2014

Aye-Aye BooksVagabond Voices Thu 11 December 2014 CCA 7pm, Free Celebrate Christmas with Glasgow Publisher, Vagabond Voices. A chance to meet six Glasgow-based authors – Chris Dolan, Lewis Gordon, Peter Gilmour, Peter Kerr, Gerry Loose and Allan Cameron – for readings, chat and wine. Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

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Book Works Publication Launch Fri 5 December 2014 CCA

Book WorksNew Work with Sarah Tripp, Isla Leaver-Yap and The Happy Hypocrite Fri 5 December 2014 CCA 7pm, Free, TheatreAges 18+ An evening to launch two new Book Works publications: You are of vital importance by Sarah Tripp and The Happy Hypocrite – Heat Island edited by Isla Leaver-Yap. Performances and presentations by Katrina Palmer, […]

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Mirrorball Showcase, CCA 4 December, 2014

St Mungo’s Mirrorball Mirrorball Showcase 7 Thu 4 December 2014 CCA 7pm, £5 on the door, SMM members free, ClubroomAll ages   An excellent evening of poetry in store with three wonderful poets. Award winning poet Colette Bryce, originally from Northern Ireland, is joined by poet, writer and land artist Gerry Loose and Marion McCready, […]

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Black Hearted Press Christmas Comics Class CCA Sun 14 December

Black Hearted PressChristmas Comics Class CCA Sun 14 December 2014 Sunday 14 December, 2pm,£5 + 60p booking fee, Clubroom, Ages 8 – 14Book online / 0141 352 4900 Comic Making Workshops with BHP and Rossi Gifford Comic Creators Instead of the usual workshops that consist of making Christmas cards or decorations, this class would be […]

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Tom Leonard, St Louis Partick, 17 December, 2014

Muse at St Louis, Literary Cafe – Tom Leonard St Louis Cafe Bar, 734 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD http://www.stlouis-cafebar.co.uk/

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Poetry Improvisation Workshop with Robin Vaughan-Williams

Poetry Improvisation Workshop with Robin Vaughan-Williams Scottish Writers Centre, CCA 9th December, 2014 Group improvisation is a method of producing poetry which involves spontaneous, collaborative, and oral composition. Poets work in groups, and engage in a series of games, scenarios, and exercises which encourage the abandonment of desks; instead, writers unite to find where their […]

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The Other Tongues, Launch, Waterstone’s, Argyle St, 28 November, 2014

THE OTHER TONGUES Friday, 28 November 2014, at 7.00 pm, Waterstone’s Argyle Street An Introduction to Writing in Irish, Scots Gaelic and Scotsin Ulster and Scotland IRISH PAGESA Journal of Contemporary Writing in association with Conradh na Gaeilge Glaschú cordially invites you to the Glasgow launch of a major anthology  With readings from the book by Tom Leonard […]

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Chris Dolan, Readings and Music, Bishopbriggs and Clydebank, November 2014

READINGS AND MUSIC…. MONDAY 24th, November 7pm BISHOPBRIGGS Library. With Paul Cuddihy, of The Celtic View, and many books inc. Read All About It. Chris and Paul reading and … singing!Featuring the world premiere of ‘MADDY’S THEME’, the song to go with Potter’s Field. 170 Kirkintilloch Road Bishopbriggs G64 2LX TUESDAY 25th – same deal […]

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Kathleen Jamie, Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, Wednesday 26 November, 2014.

Kathleen Jamie  Wednesday, 26 November 1 p.m.  Bar Gandolfi, 64 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow. ‘I was raised in Currie, Midlothian, the child of an ordinary, non-literary Scottish background. Writing poetry was an odd thing to do. I don’t know why it began, but it was secretive and liberating and real.’ Please arrive early to […]

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Creative Writing Tutor (Temporary Post) University of Glasgow (Deadline 28 Nov 2014)

Great job at Creative Writing at Univ of Glasgow as Temp CW Tutor. Here’s the info. Note the quick application deadline date of 28 Nov! University of Glasgow College of Arts School of Critical Studies Tutor in Creative Writing (Temporary) Ref: 009723 Salary, Grade 6, £27,057 – £30,434 per annum From 1st January 2015 – […]

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Glasgow Women’s Library, Launch Commonwealth Women Writers Book Section

Commonwealth Women Writers! Thursday 27 November Glasgow Women’s Library A literary party to celebrate the launch of Glasgow Women’s Library’s newly-created section of books by Commonwealth Women Writers! As well as an amazing array of titles for borrowing from the shelves, enjoy short readings from authors and poets with roots in India, South Africa, Malaysia […]

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Naomi Mitchinson Lecture: “Writing and the Stranger” University of Glasgow 20 November, 2014

Naomi Mitchinson Lecture: “Writing and the Stranger” Hosted by Scottish PEN 20 November, 2014 5.30 p.m. John McIntyre Bldg, University of Glasgow, University Ave, Glasgow, Glasgow City G12 8QQ         The Naomi Mitchinson Memorial Lecture is hosted annually by Scottish PEN and the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. […]

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The Cry plus Mr and Mrs – Favourites Literary Couples Helen Fitzgerald The Cry Waterstone’s Argyle Street Thursday, 27 November 2014,

Mr and Mrs – Favourites Literary Couples Helen Fitzgerald – The Cry     Waterstone’s Argyle Street Thursday, 27 November 2014, 7:00PM – 8:30PM A panel event with some of our favourite literary couples: Helen Fitzgerald & Sergio Casci, Craig Robertson & Alexandra Sokoloff and Russel McLean & Lesley McDowell; discussing the pros (of which there […]

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Meet the author – Peter Irvine, Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Sunday, 30 November 2014

Meet the author – Peter Irvine Scotland the Best 100 Places: Extraordinary Places and Where Best to Walk, Eat and Sleep Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Sunday, 30 November 2014, 3:00PM Peter Irvine, bestselling author of SCOTLAND THE BEST, has selected 100 extraordinary places that epitomize what is truly great about Scotland. This personal and diverse compendium […]

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David Shrigley: An evening of words and images, GFT, Thursday, 27 November 2014

 David Shrigley: An evening of words and images Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto     Glasgow Film Theatre Thursday, 27 November 2014, 8:30PM – 10:30PM Tickets are available via the GFT box office 0141 332 6535 www.glasgowfilm.org David Shrigley will be discussing his new book Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto, along with […]

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Meet the author – Tony Roper Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Thursday, 27 November 2014

Meet the author – Tony Roper I’ll No Tell You Again: My Autobiography     Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Thursday, 27 November 2014, 12:00PM Tony Roper is one of Scotland’s most recognisable faces. Best known for playing Jamesie Cotter in Rab C. Nesbitt, he is also famed for appearing in much-loved Scottish comedies Scotch & Wry and […]

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Mother India At Home: Recipes Pictures Stories by Monir Mohammed and Martin Gray

Glasgow is passionate about its curries and Monir Mohammed’s award winning restaurant Mother India is an institution, firmly established as one of the city’s best loved restaurants. In his restaurants in Glasgow and Edinburgh, you can always be sure of enjoying great service and high quality, authentic Indian food. Having made his customers happy in […]

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Happy birthday Mr. Stevenson

On this day in 1850, one Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born into the noted Stevenson family, at 8 Howard Street, Edinburgh. Engineering & design was very much the Stevenson game & it`s easy to imagine young Smout (or `Runt`as he was known at a young age due to his lack of size) being lost […]

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Social or Solitary – Polly Roberts tell it slant Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Social or Solitary – Polly Roberts tell it slant  Wednesday, November 19 at 7:00pm  Pop-up exhibition and book tour After a fantastic response from Norwich Arts Centre and a sell-out of the first run of books, ‘Social or Solitary’ is going on tour. This fun and fearless book follows a 24-year-old English graduate, determined to […]

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Lunchtime Talks, Merchants House Glasgow 2014/2015

Lunchtime Talks The Merchants House Glasgow In Partnership With The University Of Glasgow: Centre For Open Studies, Are Offering The Following Lunchtime Talks Which Will Take Place Between 12.00 – 13.00 p.m. £5 To book call: 0141 330 1853/1860/2772 Eighteenth century pioneers – William Hunter and Captain Cook Dr Sally Anne     Coupar      […]

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