WORD PLAY @ the Tron, Wednesday 5th March, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 7:30pm WORD PLAY is in its usual home this Wednesday 5th March 2014, Tron Theatre, 68 Trongate, G1 5HB Glasgow. from 8-late. Theme – ‘Dreamscapes and Mandrakes’ Featured Artist – Musician – Al Fleming Brought to you with the usual verve and enthusiasm. WORD PLAY offers an open mic opportunity created […]
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Two Jamaican Poets read at University of Glasgow, Tanya Shirley and Kei Miller, 5th March
Hugh Fraser Room, University of Glasgow, Wolfson Building, University Avenue G12 8QQ Tanya Shirley Tanya Shirley was born and lives in Jamaica. She is a graduate student and teacher in the Department of Literatures at UWI, Mona. She was awarded an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland, USA. Her work has appeared […]
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Another Kind of North: poems from and about Finland. Tonight Tuesday 25th Feb. CCA
‘Another Kind of North: poems from and about Finland’ Tuesday 25th February 2014, 7pm to 8.30pm, CCA Cinema Room, Glasgow With: Donald Adamson, Aila Juvonen, Liz Niven and Gerry Loose CCA,350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Call for submissions: Commonwealth Voices: Glasgow 2014
Commonwealth Voices: Glasgow 2014 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: FICTION; CREATIVE NON-FICTION; ESSAYS; POETRY; FLASH FICTION; DRAMA Commonwealth Voices: Glasgow 2014 is an exciting chance to have your work broadcast on Glasgow University’s SubCity Radio. As Glasgow prepares for the Commonwealth games to be held here, I am looking for work inspired by the notion of Commonwealth […]
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Monday, February 24, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Write it! Script Reading Night, The Glad Cafe 4th March
The Glad Cafe presents: Write It! Tuesday 4 March @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow Our popular quarterly script reading night! If you have a scene or 5 minute play you’d like to see acted out by our group of actors send your script to writeit@thegladcafe.co.uk Write It! Doors: 19:30 Entry: Over 18s only The Glad […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2014, Tae Think Again: Rethinking Identity in Contemporary Scotland, 26th February
Tae Think Again: Rethinking Identity in Contemporary ScotlandN/C 12+ Wednesday 26 February, CCA A response to the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence, this symposium curated by artist Rachel Maclean intends to delve deeper than a simple yes/no debate and look at the broader social, cultural and historical background to contemporary Scottish national identity. The event […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2014, Andy Diggle and Jock in Conversation, CCA, Tuesday 25th February
Andy Diggle and Jock In Conversation Tuesday 25 February 8 p.m. CCA, Sauchiehall Street Buy Tickets → Comic book writer Andy Diggle and artist Jock (Mark Simpson) are two of the most important figures in UK comics today. From their work on the legendary anthology 2000 AD to DC’s The Losers and Green Arrow: Year […]
Aye Write Book Festival 2014, William McIlvanney, Godfather of Tartan Noir, 5th April
William McIlvanney 5 Apr 2014 • 7:30 P.M – 8:30 P.M • Mitchell Library The godfather of tartan noir returns to Aye Write! to discuss his career. The godfather of tartan noir. Whitbread Award winning writer of Docherty, a stunning evocation of community and its erosion. The journalist who was to have been Sean Connery’s […]
Sunday, February 23, 2014 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2014, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Aye Write Book Festival 2014, Stewart Conn: A Glaswegian Edinburgh Makar, 5th April
Stewart Conn: A Glaswegian Edinburgh Makar 5 Apr 2014 • 4:30 P.M – 5:30 P.M • Mitchell Library The work of Glasgow born Edinburgh Makar Stewart Conn reflect the dual inheritance of both cities. Glasgow and Edinburgh dance a pas-de-deux in the poetry of Stewart Conn. The first Edinburgh Makar was born in Hillhead and […]
Aye Write Festival 2014, Glasgow: Muriel Spark’s Finishing School for Writers, 5th April
Muriel Spark’s Finishing School for Writers 5 Apr 2014 • 3:00 P.M – 4:00 P.M • Mitchell Library Meaghan Delahunt, Zoe Strachan and Alan Taylor reflect on the place of Creative Writing in Spark’s work Muriel Spark was an editor and teacher of Creative Writing who knew the publishing industry inside out. To mark the […]
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Aye Write Festival Glasgow 2014: Scotland and England: What’s the difference? 5th April
Scotland and England: What’s the difference? 5 Apr 2014 • 3:00 P.M – 4:00 P.M • Mitchell Library Lesley Riddoch, Michael Fry and Rory Stewart discuss how distinct Scotland and England really are. How distinct are Scotland and England? Are there genuine differences in political outlook, or deeper continuities? Is Glasgow more like Oslo than […]
Aye Write Glasgow 2014: Watching The Detectives: Serial Crime
Watching The Detectives: Serial Crime 5 Apr 2014 • 1:30 P.M – 2:30 P.M • Mitchell Library, North Street, G3 7DN 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? […]
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Aye Write Festival 2014, lan Bissett: Modern Men 4th April
Luke Brown and Alan Bissett: Modern Men 4 Apr 2014 • 7:30 P.M – 8:30 P.M • Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN Two novelists whose work often talks about what it is to be a man come together. Widely praised by writers such as Catherine O’Flynn and D B C Pierre, Luke Brown’s […]
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Aye Write Festival Glasgow: Glasgow Celebrates Mandela, 4th April
Glasgow Celebrates Mandela 4 Apr 2014 • 7:30 P.M – 9:00 P.M • Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN In this special event, those who knew Mandela offer their recollections about the man and the crusade for his release. When Glasgow became the first place in the world to grant Nelson Mandela the […]
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Aye Write Festival 2014: Remembering Iain Banks 4th April
Remembering Iain Banks 4 Apr 2014 • 6:00 P.M – 7:00 P.M • Mitchell Library In this special celebration, we pay tribute to one of the true greats of modern Scottish literature. Iain Banks’ last public performance was at the Mitchell Library during Book Week Scotland 2012. In this special celebration, we pay tribute to […]
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Glasgow Film Festival 2014: Fjanna, spoken word, song and films of Shetland
Fjanna N/C 18+ Saturday 22 February 9 p.m. CCA Buy tickets Join us for a drink at the Fjanna, a cabaret-style evening of spoken word performance and song to a backdrop of films from the Shetland moving image archive, featuring performances from poet Robert Alan Jamieson and young Shetland band, The Teevliks. Screening as part […]
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Thursday, February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival 2014
Muse at St Louis: Viv Gee 12th March
Lads welcome, of course. St Louis, 734 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD
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The Hobsbaum Memorial Workshops, Glasgow
A major new literary initiative aimed at younger or new writers in Glasgow and environs. Christopher Agee, Keith Wright Literary Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, has already established the very popular Literary Lunchtimes at Cafe Gadolfi and is now set on launching the Hobsbaum Memorial Workshops. These will be modelled on Philip Hobsbaum’s groups, which […]
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Literary Lunchtimes Cafe Gandolfi Feb/March 2014
Literary Lunchtimes Cafe Gandolfi Sponsored by the School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde. An Audience with Bernard McLaverty Wednesday, 26th February @1pm One of Ireland’s greatset prose-writers, long resident in Glasgow, reads from his recently published Collected Stories (Penguin, 2013). A celebration of Historical Fiction: Beatrice Colin and Louise Welsh Wednesday, 12th […]
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Poetry Launch Night Glasgow: The Last Supper
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:00pm until 10:00pm The Record Factory, 17 Byres Road, G11 5RD This is an invitation to a brand new poetry night like no other in Glasgow’s west end on the one and holy Ash Wednesday! This will be a night of Glasgow’s finest poets, literary artists and spoken word lyricists and […]
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Lesley Riddoch and her book Blossom – What Scotland Needs To Flourish
Lesley Riddoch read from her book, Blossom, last night at The Muse at St Louis. This is a great night with a mixture of new writers reading short pieces, more experienced writers and poets performing their work and a musical interlude (Jim Byrne – provided that last night and played a short, knock out set). […]
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Michael Schmidt, Caroline Bird and Michael Pedersen, 19th February, Neu Reekie
Three leading poets read from their work in the delightful surroundings of The Sutton Gallery,Edinburgh Wednesday 19th February, 7:00pm until 9:30pm Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is a Mexican-British poet, author, scholar and publisher. Born in Mexico City, Schmidt studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford University. In 1969 he founded the leading poetry press […]
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Creative Writing ClassesL University of Strathclyde, Spring 2014
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Wee Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival for Children and Young People 2014
Part of Aye Write Festival 4-12 April 2014 Wee Write takes place 5 – 11 March, 2014 In 2014, for the first time ever, Glasgow will play host to Wee Write!, a new book festival for children and young people. The festival takes place from 5-11 March 2014, and is expected to see audiences of […]
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Monday, February 17, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Kids and young people
GFF: Laptop Guy; Graphic Novel Launch, CCA, 23rd February
Glasgow Film FestivalLaptop Guy, Graphic Novel Launch Sun 23 February 2014 6.30pm, FREE on the door CCA Festival Club Admission will be allocated on a first come, first served basis What happens when a creator starts being stalked by his own fictional character? That’s the premise of Laptop Guy, a ‘sitcomic’ book from Jack Lothian […]
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CCA: John Romita Jr Masterclass 25th February, 2014
Part of Glasgow Film Festival John Romita Jr Masterclass 25th February 8 p.m. £8/ Conc. £6.50 Comic book artist John Romita Jr discusses his varied work within the comics industry – beginning his careers with sketches for covers of reprints for Marvel UK in the 70s before moving on to work on Iron Man […]
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GFF: 1939 Hooray for Hollywood: Illustrated Talk 22nd Feb. GFT
1939: Hooray for HollywoodN/C 5+ Saturday 22 February 10.15 a.m. GFT, 12 Rose Street Andy Dougan, lecturer in the Screen Department at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, shares our belief that 1939 was the greatest year in the history of Hollywood. Everyone went to the movies on a weekly basis and the studio system fed […]
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Miracle Poetry Competition 2014: the theme is Mask
Open until 30th April 2014 SUBMISSIONS http://miracleezine.wix.com/miracle-e-zine https://www.facebook.com/Miracle.ezine
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The Muse at St Louis, Literature and Music, Glasgow: Lesley Riddoch 19th February
Lesley Riddoch discussing her book Blossom, What Scotland Needs to Flourish Wednesday 19th February 8 p.m. Host Linda Jackson Music from Jim Byrne St Louis Bar and Cafe, 734 Dumbarton Rd, Glasgow, Glasgow City G11 6RD St Louis Website
Sunday, February 16, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Gig Guide plus Club Events, Jim's Acoustic Music Blog
Scar Tissue by Peter Russell: Love is in the air, Poetry and Stories of Love by Glasgow Writers.
Scar Tissue (Peter Russell) The heart’s first infection is the deepest And its memory when young is blindest When kisses course our bloodstream the sweetest And lovers are the wildest, and the kindest. Youth gives strength, not active immunity, We’ve had no contact as first love’s vaccine; Young hearts sweat fevers with impunity, And […]
