Toni Stewart, Glasgow Women’s Library, 3rd April at 5.30 p.m. for 6.00 p.m.
Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landresst Street, G40 1 BP £2/Free 550 2267 Join GWL on night. Bring something to eat with you if you like. www.womenslibrary.org.uk
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Sunday, March 23, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Project Cafe Party, Tell it slant and Locavore, 23rd March
Tell it slant reopens Party, 5 p.m. 23rd March 134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST Project Cafe and Tell it slant poetry bookshop will be popping back up like a jack-in-the-box to celebrate an imminent 3-month residency back at 134 Renfrew Street, with Locavore. There will be yummy pizza, cakes, booze & soft drinks, music and […]
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Book Launch: For Faughie’s Sake, Laura Marney, 9th May, Waterstone’s, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
9th of May, 2014 Waterstone’s Sauchiehall St at 6pm Laura Marney will be launching new book, For Faughie’s Sake. Follow up to her bestselling book: No Wonder I Take A Drink Waterstone’s, 153–157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3EW
Friday, March 21, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Albany Readings, Centre for Open Studies Creative Writing Students, Wednesdays 19 March – 9th April, 2014.
Albany Learning and Conference Centre, Woodlands Wednesdays: 26th March, 2nd and 9th April. University of Glassgow Centre for Open Studies Creative Writing Students will be showing off some of their work on four consecutive Wednesday evenings from March 19th. I went along last night to the first event. I knew that Frankie Gault was going […]
Thursday, March 20, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow
Wild Words and Spring Writing Workshop, Woodlands Community Garden, 20th March – 5th April
WILD WORDS is our writing group exploring themes and feelings around ecology, nature, environment and place. We currently meet on alternate Thursday evenings at our Carnarvon Street office, but will be venturing outdoors for inspiration as the spring weather improves. No previous writing experience is needed and you are welcome to join us on Thursdays […]
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Woodlands Community
Fiction Readings at the Albany Glasgow. New work and classic short fiction. March/April
Fiction Readings at the Albany Starting Wednesday 19th March, from 6.30pm until 9pm. Readings by seven writers, some music and visual art. The entry fee is £3. Please come along and enjoy excellent new work, as well as readings of selected classic short fiction. There will be some time for drinks and discussion afterwards. The […]
Sunday, March 16, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
The Scottish Poetry Slam Championships, OranMor, Sunday 16th March
The Scottish Poetry Slam Championships Sunday 16th Of Mar 2014 – Comedy Festival, Doors 7 p.m. Starts 8 p.m. Slam Poetry is the wild child of literature. A live competition between poets of all styles – rhymers and rappers, ranters and ravers. Tonight everybody who has won a Poetry Slam this year goes head to […]
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SWC, Spring Speakeasy, Evening of Recitals, Poetry, Short Stories, CCA, Tuesday 18th March
SWC ‘Spring Speakeasy’ Tuesday 18th March, 7 p.m. CCA An evening of recitals of poetry and short stories in English, Gaelic and Scots, from SWC members. Reading one’s own work is a vital experience for writers as a means to gain feedback and develop their own voice. Everyone is welcome, members and non-members Event […]
Saturday, March 15, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Writing with Dr Linda Jackson. Spring, 2014, University of Strathclyde
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Aye Write Festival: An Audience with Liz Lochhead, 6th April, 6 p.m. Mitchell Library
An Audience with Liz Lochhead 6 Apr 2014 • 6:00 P.M – 7:00 P.M • Mitchell Library, North Street The national Makar returns to Aye Write! – spend some time in the company of a real national treasure! Spend some time in the company of a real national treasure! The term is bandied about too […]
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Aye Write: Tom Leonard with Tam Dean Burn, new Scots translation Mother Courage, 6th April
Tom Leonard and Tam Dean Burn: Mother Courage 6 Apr 2014 • 7:30 P.M – 8:30 P.M • Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN A new Scots translation of Bertolt Brecht’s great anti-war play of the twentieth century. Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht is the great anti-war play of the twentieth century. Here Tom […]
Glasgow Books and Talks: MAP Reading Group Sick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women
MAP Reading GroupSick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women Thursday 24 April 2014 CCA 6.30pm, FREE, ClubroomAges 15+Book online / 0141 352 4900 A reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers. Initiated by Emma Balkind and Laura Edbrook in association with MAP. Our readings will contrast the work of new […]
Friday, March 14, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Review: Between the Thinks Bubble and the Speech Balloon, Liz Lochhead, OranMor until 15th March
Between the Thinks Bubble and the Speech Balloon Written and directed by Liz LochheadWritten by Liz Lochhead, Tom Leonard, William Letford, Grace Cleary and Henry Bell.Actors: Nathan Byrne, Kirstin McLean, Sandy Nelson, Gabriel Quigley and Harry Ward At A Play, A Pie and A Pint OranMor, Until 15th March, 2014. Review Pat Byrne. I must […]
Thursday, March 13, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, What's on in Glasgow: Theatre and Comedy
Chaophonies – Frankétienne & Mark Mulholland, 21st March, Alliance Francaise de Glasgow
Friday, March 21, 2014, 6:00pm Chaophonies » is the fruit of a collaboration between the Haitian poet, painter, novelist, playwright and actor Frankétienne and the Scottish musician Mark Mulholland combining spoken word and music. Theatrical readings by Frankétienne of extracts from his book of poetry « Rapjazz, Journal d’un Paria » blend with original music […]
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aloud: Glasgow Prose, Plays and Poetry Slam, Queen Margaret Union, 13th March
ALOUD Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow Uni Thursday 13th March, 8:00pm Come and perform your poems, prose, sketches, and slam! Everyone welcome! Read it aloud! Queen Margaret Union22 University Gardens, G12 8QN
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Aye Write: Glasgow’s Book Festival, The Detectives: Serial Crime, 5th April, 2014
Watching The Detectives: Serial Crime 5 Apr 2014 • 1:30 P.M – 2:30 P.M • Mitchell Library Three of the country’s finest crime writers discuss how to keep long running characters fresh. How do you keep a long-running character fresh? How do you co-ordinate a story which overarches several separate volumes? Three of the country’s […]
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2014, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write, Glasgow’s Book Festival 2014, Margaret Drabble: The Pure Gold Baby, 10th April, The Mitchell Library
Margaret Drabble: The Pure Gold Baby 10th April 2014 • 6:00 P.M – 7:00 P.M • Mitchell Library, North Street One of the most incisive and empathetic of contemporary novelists talks about exceptional career Margaret Drabble, one of the most incisive and empathetic of contemporary novelists, crowned 2013 with a new novel of stealthy power, […]
Aye Write: Glasgow’s Book Festival 2014. Laura Bates and Anne Dickson: Everyday Feminism and How to Fix It.
Laura Bates and Anne Dickson: Everyday Feminism and How to Fix it 9 Apr 2014 • 5:30 P.M – 6:30 P.M • Mitchell Library, North Street. A discussion on the ongoing day to day battle for equality in the modern world. Laura Bates and Anne Dickson: Everyday Feminism and How to Fix it In an […]
Aye Write 2014: Dr Linda Jackson, Give it a Go Poetry Writing.
Give it a Go: Poetry Writing, Dr Linda Jackson Aye Write! Creative Writing Programm Glasgow Book Festival, Mitchell Library, North Street 7th April, 5.30 – 7.30 p.m. This session is for those who have been circling the poet in themselves for some time or for those who have been tentatively beginning the process of […]
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The Independence Lectures, Tariq Ali, Boyd Orr Building, Glasgow Uni, 14th March 2014
Scotland: Between Past and Future | Tariq Ali Friday, March 14, 2014, 6:30pm Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow, University Ave, G12 8NN Over the coming months we will be co-hosting “The Independence Lectures” in association with Pluto Press and Wordpower books. This series of public events will be addressed by renowned academics, authors and […]
Monday, March 10, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Don Share, Talk and Reading, 11th March, University of Glasgow
American poet, editor, and scholar, Dr Don Share, editor of Poetry magazine (Chicago) and former head of the Harvard Poetry Series, will be giving a talk and reading this coming Tuesday, March 11, at 5.30pm. Room 101, the Edwin Morgan Room, at 5 University Gardens, G12 All are welcome. Don Short – Information and Bio […]
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Aye Write Festival 2014: Mark Z Danielewski and Ben Marcus: What The Novel Did Next, Friday 12th April
Mark Z Danielewski and Ben Marcus: What The Novel Did Next 12 Apr 2014 • 6:00 P.M – 7:00 P.M • Mitchell Library, North Street Two of the most innovative of American novelists show us that the form is far from dead. It is a privilege to welcome to Glasgow two of the most innovative […]
Friday, March 7, 2014 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2014, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write Festival 2014, Tendai Huchu to discuss The Hairdresser of Harare, Saturday 12th April, 3 – 4 p.m.
Tendai Huchu to discuss The Hairdresser of Harare at Aye Write! Tendai Huchu will be appearing at Aye Write! to discuss his debut novel, The Hairdresser of Harare. He will be accompanied by Kei Miller and Chiew-Siah Tei in what is sure to be a ‘feast of Commonwealth Literature’. The Hairdresser of Harare is a […]
Aye Write 2014, 21 Revolutions contributors, Friday 11th April.
21 Revolutions contributors at Aye Write! The contributors to 21 Revolutions will appear with Laura Marney and Kirsty Logan at Aye Write! to discuss their inspirations for the project, as well as the challenges in the 21st century. 21 Revolutions is a beautiful full colour, coffee table book celebrating the Library’s twenty first anniversary and […]
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2014, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write 2014, Linda Cracknell and Sara Maitland on Landscape Writing , Saturday 12th April
Linda Cracknell and Sara Maitland will appear at Aye Write! to discuss the elements of nature, elemental forces, science and superstition that are inherent in their writing. In Linda’s stunning debut novel, Call of the Undertow, she explores themes of motherhood, guilt, myth and the elemental forces of nature in a lyrical, taut and […]
Aye Write 2014: The Untold Story – By Our Own Tongues, 11th April, A Commonwealth Writers Conversation
The Untold Story – By Our Own Tongues Mitchell Library 11th April, 4 – 5.30 p.m. A Commonwealth Writers Conversation in partnership with the British Council and in association with The Gaelic Book Council. With: Aonghas MacNeacail (Scotland), Joanne Hillhouse (Antigua) and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (Trinidad). Chair: Dr Gemma Robinson (University of Stirling This panel brings […]
Alex Gray Book Launch, Waterstone’s, Sauchiehall Street, 13th March
Alex Gray Book Launch Waterstones Sauchiehall St The Bird That Did Not Sing Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:00pm Come to the launch of Alex Gray’s stunning new Lorimer novel, set against the backdrop of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, brings the vibrant city to life in a race to stop the greatest threat the city has […]
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Seize the Day: 2014 Inaugural Andrew Carnegie Lecture, University of Glasgow, 17th March
2014 Inaugural Andrew Carnegie Lecture: “Seize the Day” Public lecture by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. Monday 17th March. Starts at 6pm (doors 5.30pm) Ends 7.30pm. Bute Hall, Main Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is Britain’s greatest Paralympic athlete. She competed in five Paralympic Games, winning 11 Gold Medals, and is acknowledged as […]
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The Fail Better March, McChuills, 13th March, 2014
The Fail Better March McChuills Thursday, March 13, 2014, 8 p.m. Spring is sprung, the grass is riz. Here’s some poetry! Bloody great poetry actually, from Ms Broad hersel, RACHEL MCCRUM And then some songs from t-shirt drawer and david bowie impersonator SHAMBLES MILLER More words from the estimable KATY HASTIE And then music contemporary, […]
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
From Glasgow to Saturn Journal Launch, 10 March 2014
From Glasgow to Saturn Journal Launch No 33 Monday, March 10, 2014 – 7:45pm To celebrate the triumphant launch of Issue 33 of From Glasgow to Saturn Journal, our first print issue, we’re holding a reading party. Copies of the issue will be on sale, and there will be readings from some contributors. Watch this […]
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