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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Louise Welsh: A Lovely Way To Burn, Book Launch, Waterstone’s Sauchiehall St, 20th March
Book launch Louise Welsh A Lovely Way to Burn Waterstone’s Sauchiehall Street Thursday, 20 March 2014, 6:00PM Tickets £2/£1 with loyalty card A Lovely Way to Burn is the first outbreak in the Plague Times trilogy. Chilling, tense and completely compelling, it’s Louise Welsh writing at the height of her powers. Come and see one […]
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Spring Planning Meeting Glasgow University Willowbank Community Garden, Tchai Ovna, 5th March
Spring Planning Meeting Glasgow University Willowbank Community Garden Wednesday 5th March 7 p.m. Come along to our spring planning meeting. We’re going to be planning our planting for the spring season, and discussing future plans for the garden, over cups of tea 🙂 All welcome. Tchai Ovna 42 Otago Lane, G12 8PB
Turbo Valve Journal, The Poetry Club, 11th April
Valve journal Friday, April 11, 2014, 7:30pm Your favourite literary journal (right?) is having a night of fun at The Poetry Club to celebrate all the good people we’ve come across since we began in 2011. Rounding up some of our favourite writers published in Valve over the last three years, we’ll kick off with readings […]
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Monday, March 3, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
In Process with J David Simons: Scottish Writers’ Centre 4th March, 2014. CCA
J David Simons Scottish Writers’ Centre CCA Tue 4 March 2014 7pm, £6 (£3), FREE to SWC members No booking required Glasgow-born author J. David Simons has been a lawyer, charity administrator, cotton farmer, university lecturer and journalist. His work has been short-listed for The McKitterick Prize, he has been the recipient of two Creative […]
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
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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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 […]
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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