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Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2013 – Aye Write

Nathan Filer and Dennis O’Donnell

FrIday 18 October​

12.30-13.30pm

Jeffrey Room, Mitchell Library

£5​

Both Nathan Filer and Dennis O’Donnell have worked in psychiatric units, but have turned their experiences into very different, complementing books. O’Donnell’s The Locked Ward is a sometimes shocking memoir; Filer’s novel, The Shock of the Fall, is by turns plangent and hilarious and has been described by comed​​ian Jo Brand, herself a former nurse, as the best fiction about mental health she has ever read.​

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Don Paterson

Friday 18th October

12.30-13.30pm

Burns Room, Mitchell Library

£5​

Scottish poet Don Paterson writes ‘with a violent and wicked imagination,’ (The Spectator) and has won the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for poetry twice.
In this event, Don will be in conversation with Aye Write! programmer Stuart Kelly, discussing how poetry deals with grief. His recent collection In Rain, for which he won the Forward Prize, includes an elegy for the poet Michael Donaghy. Hear Don as he talks ab​out whom elegies are addressed to and how to commemorate a life, and offers some of his witty aphorisms about life, death, art and meaning.​

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Sathnam Sanghera

Friday 18th October

2 – 3pm

Jeffrey Room, Mitchell Library

£5

“Beautifully vivid, poetic… frank and witty… affecting… fundamentally optimistic… fresh… appealing… funny… The Boy With The Topknot is a wonderful read.”
James Naughtie, BBC Radio 4 Bookclub

Sathnam Sanghera won both the President’s Medal from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the MIND Book of the Year for his acclaimed debut, The Boy With The Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton, which dealt movingly with his family’s bipolarity. He has now written a novel, Marriage Material, updating Arnold Bennett’s classic The Old Wives’ Tale. ​

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Katie Green

Friday 18 October 2013

15.30 – 16.30pm

Jeffrey Room, Mitchell Library

£5 (subject to booking fee)

Lighter Than My Shadow is Katie Green’s graphic novel about how being a picky eater slides into anorexia and is sure to catapult her into the first rank of contem​porary graphic memoirists. Already well known for her zine The Green Bean, Katie’s memoir not only shows “those who are so weak they prey on the weak”, but how happiness can be recovered and transformed.

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Jenni Fagan

Saturday 19 October 2013

11am -12noon

Main Hall, Mitchell Library

£5 (plus booking fee)

Jenni Fagan’s real life story is more dramatic than most authors’, and as her debut novel attests to, she can bring a unique and authentic perspective to the portrayal of a vivacious, tough yet troubled teenager.

The only Scot on the 2013 Granta Best of Young British Novelists, Jenni Fagan’s debut novel The Panopticon received rave reviews and was shortlisted for the prestigious James Tait Black Prize. Gothic and comic, shocking and affecting, you will see the world with new eyes after seeing it through those of Fagan’s unforgettable central character, Anais Hendricks.​

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Denise Mina and Sophie Hannah

Saturday 19th October

12.30-13.30pm

Main Hall, Mitchell Library

£5

Two of the very finest contemporary crime novelists, both Denise Mina and Sophie Hannah have never shied away from dealing with complex questions of psychology. Their most recent novels, The Red Road and The Carrier pose difficult questions about guilt and innocence, the difference between illegality and immorality and the thin line between victims and perpetrators.

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Ella Barthoud

Saturday 19th October 2013

2-3pm

Main Hall, Mitchell Library

£5 (plus booking fee)

Can a book make you feel better? That is certainly the belief of Ella Berthoud, who, along with co-writer Susan Elderkin, has compiled The Novel Cure: an A-Z of Literary Remedies, an encyclopaedia of “bibliotherapy”. Whether it’s pessimism or PMT, hypochondria or the hiccups, she has a bookish diagnosis and a writer to see you through.​
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Alasdair Gray

Saturday 19th October 2013

3.30-4.30pm

Main Hall, Mitchell Library

£5 (plus booking fee)

Alasdair Gray is a living legend: novelist, poet, artist, short-story writer, essayist, provocateur and now translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy. In the modern classics Lanark, 1982, Janine and Poor Things he has explored trauma and the recovery from trauma, in both personal and political terms. The man who put Glasgow back on the literary map discusses his wide-ranging career.

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The Bipolar Scotland Short Story Competition 2013

Saturday 19th October 2013

3-4pm

Blythswood Room, Mitchell Library

FREE

Following the success of their poetry competition in 2011, Bipolar Scotland opened a short story competition earlier this year. Submissions were to be on the theme of ‘First Love.’

The culmination of the competition is a gala event which will close Aye Write’s SMHAFF programme on the Saturday afternoon.

The free event will include readings of original prose from the shortlisted entrants. Gordon Johnston (Chair of Bipolar Scotland) will also read from his forthcoming novel Calling Cards.

The afternoon will close with a prize giving ceremony.

To book a FREE place or for more information please contact Bipolar Scotland on 0141 560 2050 or email

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