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. […]
Monday, November 17, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
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 […]
Friday, November 14, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
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 […]
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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Thursday, November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Stuart Paterson: Writer's Blog
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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Tuesday, November 11, 2014 | Filed under: Art, Photography, Exhibitions what's on-glasgow, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
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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Monday, November 10, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow
‘Autobiography at Novel’: with Shazia Hobbs and Magi Gibson, 25 November, CCA
‘Autobiography at Novel’: with Shazia Hobbs and Magi Gibson Tuesday 25th November 2014; 7pm to 8.30pm, CCA Club Room, Glasgow Shazia Hobb’s The Gori’s Daughter is about the life of a young, mixed race woman – daughter of a Kashmiri father and Glaswegian mother – living in a polygamous family household, with her parents and […]
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Fiction for Fearties, Glasgow Womens Library, 17 November, 2014
Fiction for Fearties November 17 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm Glasgow Women’s Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP Do you have a favourite short story you’d like to share? Would you like to write a short story of your own? Monday 17th November. 2.30 to 4.30pm (£3/free) Come along to our National Short […]
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Book Launch: Out There – A New Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing Thursday, November 13, 2014 Mono Cafe Bar
Book Launch: Out There – A New Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing Thursday, November 13 at 7:00pm Mono Cafe Bar The anthology features work from celebrated writers including Val McDermid, Carol Ann Duffy, Toni Davidson, Damian Barr, Louise Welsh, Jenni Fagan, Kerry Hudson, Jackie Kay, Ronald Frame- and many more. Damian Barr, author of Maggie […]
Friday, November 7, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, November – December, 2014
Sponsored by the School of Humanities University of Strathclyde All events will be introduced by Chris Agee, the Keith Wright Literary Fellow at University of Strathclyde. Programme Tom Leonard Wednesday 12 November – 1 p.m. One of Glasgow’s great literary sons will read from his uniquely versatile work Kathleen Jamie Wednesday 26 November – 1 […]
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Thursday, November 6, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
St Mungo’s Mirrorball Mirrorball Showcase 6 Thu 20 November 2014 CCA
St Mungo’s MirrorballMirrorball Showcase 6 Thu 20 November 2014 CCA 7pm, £5 on the door, SMM members free, ClubroomAll ages An excellent evening of poetry in store with three wonderful poets A former homelessness worker, Ian Duhig has written six books of poetry, most recently Pandorama (Picador 2010) and has won the Forward Best Poem […]
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
TalkSeePhotography CCA Mon 10 November 2014
TalkSeePhotography CCA Mon 10 November 2014 7pm, Free but ticketed, CinemaAll agesBook Online TalkSeePhotography’s November event will see Finnish Curator Mika Hannula present his ideas behind the thought-provoking book Tell It Like It Is – Contemporary Photography and the Lure of the Real. The book bring together discourses which have relevance to our understanding of […]
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Aonghas MacNeacail, Literary Lunchtimes in Glasgow. Review by Pat Byrne
Glasgow has some fabulous literary events and I go along to quite a few book launches and performances. I’m not so often to be found at poetry events but I had a wonderful time at Bar Gandolfi’s Literary Lunchtimes last Wednesday (29 October, 2014), when I went along to see Aonghas MacNeacail. It was very […]
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Creative Scotland: Literature Sector Review (2014) Online consultation open now
Creative Scotland: Literature Sector Review (2014) Online consultation open now Deadline for feedback: 14th November 2014 (at 5pm) As part of Creative Scotland’s strategy for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland, Creative Scotland has commissioned Nordicity in association with Drew Wylie Ltd. to conduct a sector review for literature and publishing. This review is […]
Saturday, November 1, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
SWC presents: Women of the Beat Generation Friday, November 14 at 5:30pm The Project Cafe
SWC presents: Women of the Beat Generation Friday, November 14 at 5:30pm The Project Cafe Scottish Writers Centre presents: Maggie Graham and Ellen McAteer Name a Beat writer. Allen Ginsburgh?, Gregory Corso? Jack Kerouak? Gary Snyder? Peter Orloffsky? How about Diane Di Prima, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Hettie Jones, Janine Pomy Vega or Ruth Wiess? […]
Friday, October 31, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Hallowe’en Extravaganza The Village Storytelling Centre, Glasgpw 31 October 2014
Hallowe’en Extravaganza The Village Storytelling Centre 31 October 2014, 6.30 p.m. Ghost stories and games galore this Halloween. Come along to our centre on the scariest night of the year, for the Halloween Extravaganza Party! It’ll be a rootin’, tootin’ drop-in shindig for all ages, with:Deliciously dark and spooky talesLIve traditional musicA beautifully-equipped “dress up […]
Scottish Writers’ Centre Red Squirrel Book Launches Tue 11 November 2014 CCA
Scottish Writers’ CentreRed Squirrel Book Launches Tue 11 November 2014 CCA 7pm, Free, ClubroomAges 16+ Sheila Wakefield of leading independent poetry publisher Red Squirrel Press presents an evening of poetry readings to celebrate the release of new books from three Scottish poets: Colin Will, Nikkia Magennis and William Bonar. Widely published Edinburgh-born poet with a […]
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Shambolic Friday 31 October, 2014 The Project Cafe – 7 p.m.
Shambolic Friday 31 October, 2014 The Project Cafe – 7 p.m. They say that Val Doonican Rocks – But Gently! tore up the rule book after the bland musical orthodoxies of the nineteen sixties. We like to think DisComBoBuLaTe did the same for literature. But DisComBoBuLaTe metamorphosed – at precisely 8.27pm on Friday Sept 26th – […]
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Magick and the Occult Symposium Fri 31 October 2014 CCA
Magick and the Occult Symposium Fri 31 October 2014 CCA 7pm, Free,All agesBook online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Gregor WrightDinosaur Expert I’m Feeling Lucky Fri 19 September — Sun 2 November 2014 Come along for an All Hallows’ Evening exploring ideas of magick, witchcraft and the occult. Linking to Gregor Wright’s exhibition […]
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Dialogue in Fiction Day School Saturday 1st November, St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow
Dialogue in Fiction Day School Saturday 1st November 10am-4pm St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow This is a practical one day course that focuses on dialogue in fiction. The following questions will be addressed: How is successful dialogue constructed? What techniques do writers use to create dialogue? Why is some dialogue flat and unconvincing. What […]
John Waters This Filthy World, Vol. 2, 02 Academy, 14 November
John Waters This Filthy World, Vol. 2 FRI 14 NOV 2014, 7pmO2 Academy, Glasgow121 Eglinton St, Glasgow G5 9NTTickets £25.00 (stbf)Doors 7.00pm | Over 18s only | All seated (reserved)Special pre-sale status for Glasgay! customers Book now This Filthy World Vol.2 is a celebration of the joyously appalling taste of America’s most notorious filmmaker – […]
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Thursday, October 30, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
St Louis Partick , Wee Literary Festival, Graham Fulton, 5 November, 2014
St Louis Cafe Bar, 734 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD
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Book Launch Cold City by Cathy Mcsporran, The Libertine, Monday, November 3
Launch Cold City by Cathy Mcsporran The Libertine, Glasgow Monday, November 3 at 7:00pm An outstanding literary debut, Cold City uses speculative fiction to explore one young woman’s mental illness and our darkest feelings about family. Please join us in The Libertine for the launch of this exciting publication. There will be a reading from […]
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Week Scotland Monday 24 – Sunday 30 November 2014.
Book Week Scotland Monday 24 – Sunday 30 November 2014. Book Week Scotland is a week-long celebration of books and reading that takes place every November. During Book Week, people of all ages and walks of life will come together in libraries, schools, community venues and workplaces to share and enjoy books and reading. They […]
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Literary Lunchtimes, Bar Gandolfi, October – December, 2014
Literary Lunchtimes Autumn 2014
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Meet the Author – The Liepzig Affair – Fiona RINTOUL Waterstones, Tuesday, November 11
Meet the Author – The Liepzig Affair – Fiona Rintoul Waterstones Sauchiehall St Tuesday, November 11 at 6:00pm Tickets are FREE and available from the Ground Floor tills or by calling 0141 332 9105 The year is 1985. East Germany is in the grip of communism. Magda, a brilliant but disillusioned young linguist, is desperate […]
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Ron Athey in conversation. Gilmorehill, University of Glasgow 13 November
Ron Athey in conversation 13 NOV, 7.30PMGilmorehill CentreUniversity of Glasgow,9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQTel 0141 330 2892www.gla.ac.ukFree by ticket Following the fourth installation of his Incorruptible Flesh series, ‘Messianic Remains’, Ron Athey explores the performance lineage of his own post-AIDS body. Previous instalments were presented in collaboration with the late Lawrence Steger, who died […]
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
