September Lit Events

Lots of lit events for you this month. From book launches, to poetry readings, Jazz and comedy. Just browse, book and enjoy. A s always please update any other event that you know of.

Mon 5 Sep 6pm–8pm Waterstone's, 153–157 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
0141 332 9105
Free
Derek Landy: Death Bringer

The launch of Landy's Death Bringer, the sixth part of the Skulduggery series.


Tue 6 Sep 7pm Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow
0141 578 8847
£4 (£3)
The festival's grand opening with Kay Adams, followed by a New Author's Panel hosted by local writer Leela Soma and featuring Pauline Wilkie, Bert Mitchell and Maggie Rabatski. Part of Milngavie Book and Arts Festival.
Website: www.milngaviefestival.org.uk


Wed 7 Sep 8pm Tron Theatre, Glasgow
0141 552 4267
£2 Open mic night with acoustic music, poetry and prose. Hosts The Word Factory are also performing together as a group.


Thu 8 Sep 7pm Cargo's Special Delivery Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow
0141 956 4752
£3

Thu 8 Sep 8pm DisComBoBuLatE presents Ireland's Greatest Living Genius: The Book Launch CCA, Glasgow
0141 352 4900

Thu 8 Sep 6pm–7pm An Evening with Janice Galloway Mitchell Library, Glasgow
0141 353 8000
£5 (£3)
£3

Thu 8 Sep 1pm–2pm Stephen McGinty: Camp Z Langside Library, Glasgow
0141 632 0810
Free


Fri 9 Sep 8pm Reading Allowed Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, Glasgow
0141 357 4524
Free

Sat 10 Sep 6pm Ceol's Craic Celebrates Sorley MacLean CCA, Glasgow
0141 352 4900
£8 (£5)

Mon 12 Sep 6pm Robert Douglas: Staying on Past the Terminus Mitchell Library, Glasgow
0141 353 8000
£5 (£3)

Wed 14 Sep 7:30pm Glasgow Poetry Book Group CCA, Glasgow
0141 352 4900
Free

Wed 14 Sep 7pm Ivory Hotel, Glasgow Poetry @ the Ivory: Donny O'Rourke

The regular poetry night is headlined Renfrewshire-born poet Donny O'Rourke. To take part, email jacqueline.smith99@talktalk.net
0141 636 0223
£2


Thu 15 Sep 7pm Gergely Nagy
Scottish Writers' Centre, Glasgow Free

Hungarian journalist, editor, and bass guitarist (in the bands KimNowak and Eat Me, since you ask) Nagy discusses his work, including a forthcoming novel on stories of his ancestors.

Thu 15 Sep 1pm–2pm Thu 15 Sep 1pm–2pm Langside Library, Glasgow. A guide at two of the city's art galleries, Macdonald furnishes attendees with anecdotes and information about some of Glasgow's most famous paintings.


Mon 19 Sep 2pm Glasgow Women's Library,GWL Learners Forum

A chance to meet other users of the Library and talk about what kinds of services and facilities would be useful to you. Glasgow
0141 248 9969



Wed 21 Sep 8pm–11pm The Glasgow Art Club, The Not So Secret Society

Comedy japesters Rufus and Ben are your hosts for this not-particularly-secret artists' gathering, which may or may not involve comedy, theatre, spoken word, music and oddity.Glasgow
0141 248 5210
£5 in advance; £6 on the door

Wed 21 Sep 7:30pm Weegie Wednesdays

Monthly forum offering writers, poets, publishers, booksellers, librarians, creative writing students or anyone else with a literary interest the chance to get together socially to talk about books and publishing.The Universal, Glasgow
0141 332 8899
Free

Thu 22 Sep 6pm–8pm Christopher Wallace Discussion and Signing

Wallace discusses and signs copies of Killing the Messenger Waterstone's, Glasgow
0141 332 9105
Free


27September- 1 st Oct 7:30pm Tron Theatre, Glasgow Elegies From Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

An evening of free verse set to blues, jazz and rhythm and blues, celebrating the lives of AIDS victims.
0141 552 4267
£9 (£7)

Thu 29 Sep 1pm–2pm Langside Library, Glasgow Colin Mackie: The Happy Reaper

Mackie, a long-standing member of the South Glasgow Heritage and Environment Trust, delivers a talk on projects that the community organisation has been involved with, including the preservation of the Gorbals' Southern Necropolis.
0141 632 0810
Free


Thu 29 Sep 7pm David Manderson
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Manderson reads from Lost Bodies, the debut novel that resulted from a Scottish Arts Council prize, a dark, chilling, psychological thriller. Scottish Writers' Centre, Glasgow Free