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

Milngavie Book &Art Festival

Don't miss our Book and Art Festival September 6th- 10th. Kaye Adams the TV presenter opens the Festival at the Lillie Art Gallery followed by the popular New Writer's panel 'How did I get Published?' chaired by yours truly.


The programme line up this year is fabulous.Here's a summary for you.


At a Glance

Date/Time Event Venue

Monday 5th September

8.00pm Monday Swing Milngavie Town Hall

Tuesday 6th September

3.00pm James Robertson St Andrew’s Church

7.00 for 7.30pm Opening reception

with Kaye Adams

New Writers’ Panel Lillie Art Gallery

Wednesday 7th September

2.30pm Alasdair Alexander Milngavie Library

7.00pm Fiona Martynoga Mugdock Country Park

7.30pm Burns For a’ That Corbie Ha’

7.30pm Flutes en Route Lillie Art Gallery

8.00pm May Nicholson Allander Church

Thursday 8th September

2.30pm Sue Peebles Milngavie Library

7.00pm Peter Wright Mugdock Country Park

7.00pm Cargo Special Delivery Lillie Art Gallery

Friday 9th September

2.00pm Afternoon Tea Allander Church

with Jess Smith

4.00pm Tawona &Leela/Poets from

Two Continents Allander Church

7.30pm John MacLeod Allander Church

Saturday 10th September

10.00am Moomins Courtroom

11.00am Donald Nelson Milngavie Bookshop

11.00am John MacLeod Allander Church

11.00am Peepo! Courtroom

11.00am King James Bible Reading St Andrew’s church marquee

11.30am The Rosie Nimmo Band Precinct (stage)

12.00pm Scott McIntyre Courtroom

12.30pm Dunbartonshire Wind Precinct (marquee)

Ensemble

1.00pm Robert Douglas Allander Church

1.15pm Moira Munro Courtroom

2.00pm Them Beatles Precinct (stage)

2.30pm Postman Pat St. Andrew’s Church Marquee

3.00pm Sally Magnusson Allander Church

3.00pm Janey Louise Jones Courtroom

3.00pm Close Shave Chorus Precinct (marquee)

4.00pm Blue Dubh Precinct (stage)

7.30pm Boo Hewerdine Fraser Centre

7.30pm Fish, Chips & Champagne

Crime night Cairns Church

Do come along and enjoy the week of books, art and music and the 'Fringe' our own Milngavie Medley.

August Lit Events

EDBOOKFEST THIS MONTH!13TH-29TH AUGUST.www.edbookfest.co.uk Get your tent set up at Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh.


Wed 10 Aug 7pm The Ivory, Glasgow £2

Tom Leonard at Poetry @ the Ivory

Tom Leonard reads from his work and is interviewed on his life and poetry at this event supported by GlasgowLife and Scottish Book Trust.

The Ivory
2–-4 Camphill Avenue
Glasgow, G41 3AY



Wed 10 Aug 5pm The National Piping Centre, Glasgow
0141 353 0220
Free

The book launch will be accompanied by tunes from Allan MacDonald & Friends. Part of Piping Live!

Website: www.pipinglive.co.uk
The National Piping Centre
30–34 McPhater Street,
Cowcaddens
Glasgow, G4 OHW
Box office: 0141 353 0220

Thu 11 Aug 6pm–8pm Waterstone's, Glasgow
0141 332 9105
Free

Allan Wilson: Wasted in Love
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Young Glasgow writer Wilson launches a new collection of short stories.
Waterstone's
153–157 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow, G2 3EW
Scotland
Phone: 0141 332 9105
Website: www.waterstones.co.uk

Thu 11 Aug 4:45pm The National Piping Centre, Glasgow
0141 353 0220
Free

Cpt Stuart Samson: The Land Of Bens, Glens and Heroes
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A book launch and performance by Samson and friends. Part of Piping Live!

Website: www.pipinglive.co.uk
The National Piping Centre
30–34 McPhater Street,
Cowcaddens
Glasgow, G4 OHW
Box office: 0141 353 0220

July Lit Events

July Events:

30th June- 30th September: In advance of receiving the Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Alastair Reid's manuscripts and translations will be on display at Glasgow University Library, featuring illuminating works on the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. Details: Phone: 0141 330 2000 Website: www.gla.ac.uk

7th July: Self development group based around the best selling book.
Big Mouth Coffee Bar and Café, Glasgow 0141 337 7023

7th july: Nights at the Circus
A cabaret night featuring all of our favourite things: rock, jazz, poetry, magic, drama and cake. Bands appearing tonight are Natalie Pryce, Ghosts of Progress and Adopted as Holograph.Captain's Rest, Glasgow 0141 332 7304 £4

9th July: (Words Per Minute)
Monthly spoken word, music, film and performance night run by Glasgow-based writer-performers Kirsty Logan, Helen Sedgwick and Kirstin Innes.4pm–7pm The Arches, Glasgow 0141 565 1000 £5

Behind The Scenes :Tue 12 Jul 2:30pm Mitchell Library, Glasgow 0141 287 2999 Free Guided tour around the dusty shelves of the largest public reference library in Europe.Booking is essential.


Wed 13 Jul 7:30pm Mono, Glasgow A book group for those who like plenty of pictures with their words, run by Plan B Books. 0141 237 1137 Free

Wed 20 Jul 7:30pm Weegie Wednesdays The Universal, Glasgow 0141 332 8899 Free


Wed 20 Jul 8:30pm The Not So Secret SocietyComedy 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. The Glasgow Art Club, Glasgow 0141 248 5210£6 (£5 'if you know the password')

21 Jul–24 Jul Merchant City Festival

A celebration of Scotland's theatre, music, visual arts, comedy, dance, film, literature, shopping and fashion in Glasgow's trading and cultural quarter. As well as events in venues such as the Tron Theatre and the Briggait artists' space, there is a busy line-up of street theatre and al fresco music.
Website: www.merchantcityfestival.com
Various venues
Merchant City
Glasgow, Lanarkshire G1
Scotland
Phone: 0141 5526027
Email: info@merchantcityfestival.com

21 Jul–24 Jul Thu–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm Book Swap Bookcase

A lovely idea, this: if you're passing through the Trongate, bring along a book you're happy to part with, leave it on the Book Swap Bookcase, and return home with some new reading matter – all for nada!Trongate 103, Glasgow


25 Jul 8pm The 13th Note Café/Bar, Glasgow Impenetrable Click

A host of comics travel the length and breadth of the continent to take part in a night of experimental comedy, poetry and music. Taking charge over the potential chaos are Scottish/American powerhouse Sarah Cassidy, Jazz Poetry Builder Will Setchell, Alan Scott and Geoff Gawler. Featuring the notorious Deep Chuckle, a robot sent back in time to kill Bernard Manning.

July 26th Magic Carpet Cabaret at Tchai Ovna Otago Lane.8-10 pm Words, Music and an Opne Mic.

Tue 26 Jul 6pm My Life in Books: Crime Fiction Special Glasgow Women's Library, Glasgow Crime writers Karen Campbell (The Twilight Time) and Helen Fitzgerald (Dead Lovely) discuss the influence books have had on them throughout their lives.
Mitchell Library,
15 Berkeley Street
Glasgow, G3 7BW
Phone: 0141 248 9969
Website: www.womenslibrary.org.uk 0141 248 9969 Free

Scottish Lit Fests June- September

16 Jun 2011 - 19 Jun 2011 Borders Book Festival Melrose, Scottish Borders Book Festivals
1 Aug 2011 - 13 Aug 2011 Aos Dana Skye Book Festivals
5 Aug 2011 - 25 Aug 2011 Edinburgh Book Fringe Edinburgh Book Festivals
10 Aug 2011 - 13 Aug 2011 Inverness Book Festival Inverness Book Festivals
13 Aug 2011 - 29 Aug 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival Edinburgh Book Festivals 20 Aug 2011 - 21 Aug 2011 Books, Borders & Bikes Innerleithen, Scottish Borders Book Festivals
27 Aug 2011 - 27 Aug 2011 North Ayrshire Council Readers’ Day North Ayrshire Book Festivals
31 Aug 2011 - 4 Sep 2011 Nairn Book and Arts Festival Nairn Book Festivals
1 Sep 2011 - 30 Sep 2011 New Words Aberdeen Book Festivals
3 Sep 2011 - 4 Sep 2011 Wordplay Shetland Book Festivals
3 Sep 2011 - 4 Sep 2011 Islay Book Festival Port Ellen, Islay Book Festivals
6 Sep 2011 - 10 Sep 2011 Milngavie Book & Arts Festival Milngavie.
9 Sep 2011 - 11 Sep 2011 Black Isle Words Festival Cromarty,Ross-Shire Book Festivals

June Lit Events

The West End Festival takes over this month's lit events. There are so many interesting events that I suggest you get a programme or download one from www.westendfestival.co.uk

The West End Festival: 3rd-26 June
There are too many events to list them here from stories and fun for children to writing workshops, Refugee stories week, book launches, poetry,Goethe Institute's event Nicol Ljubic -The author reads from his book Stillness of the Sea (Meeresstille), in German and English, The Scottish Pen events. An exhaustive list, something for everyone. Enjoy at least some of them and hope the sun shines for the parade.

2 June 6.30 7.45pm:Alison Irvine: This Road is Red (Milton Library 16th June at Royston Library)
As part of three simultaneous author tours dropping in on libraries around north Glasgow, Alison Irvine discusses her novel This Road is Red, which is based on real life stories from past and present inhabitants of the Red Road flats.
Reading the Leaves
Fri 3 Jun 8pm Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, Glasgow
Poetry and storytelling evening.
Tchai-Ovna House of Tea
Saturday 4 June Mairi Hedderwick: Katie Morag and the Dancing Class
Marie Hedderwick reads from her much-loved Katie Morag stories, set on the fictional island of Struay. Part of the West End Festival.
Hillhead Library
Mairi Hedderwick: Katie Morag and the Dancing Class
11:15am Hillhead Library, Glasgow 0141 276 1617
Free
Mairi Hedderwick: Katie Morag and the Dancing Class
2:30pm Hillhead Library, Glasgow
Partick Library, 305 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow Event
Date Tickets
Janis Mackay: Magnus Fin and the Moonlight Mission
Mon 6 Jun 10:15am 0141 276 1560
Free
Janis Mackay: Magnus Fin and the Moonlight Mission
Mon 6 Jun 1:15pm 0141 339 7223
Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, Glasgow Event
Date Tickets
Free
Mon 6 Jun 6pm–7pm 0141 287 2999
£8 (£6)
Christopher Brookmyre: Where the Bodies are Buried Mitchell Theatre, 6 Granville Street, Glasgow Event
Cathy Macphail: Tue 7 Jun 10:15am Hillhead Library, Glasgow 0141 276 1617
Free An insight into the processes MacPhail employs to successfully write for teenagers, from her urban thriller series Nemesis to Grass and Hide and Seek. Part of the West End Festival.
Open Mic
Tue 7 Jun 5:45pm Partick Library, Glasgow 0141 276 1560
Free
An open mic event organised by The Federation of Writers (Scotland). Book your slot by emailing admin@writersfederation.org.uk. Donations appreciated. Part of the West End Festival 2011.
Sinclair MacLeod: The Reluctant Detective
Tue 7 Jun 6:30pm–7:45pm 0141 946 2348
Free
Maryhill Library & Learning Centre, 1508 Maryhill Road, Glasgow
14th June 6.30pm at Milton Library
23 rd June 6.30 pm at Barmulloch Library
Workshop: Performance for Writers
Thu 9 Jun CCA, Glasgow 0141 352 4900
Free
The Scottish Writers' Centre lays on a workshop in performing your words on stage, with lively performance poet Anita Govan.
Date Location Tickets
10 Jun 10.15am Margaret Ryan: Roodica the Rude
Hillhead Library, Glasgow
10 Jun 1.15pm Partick Library, Glasgow
Margaret Ryan reads from her tale of Queen Goodica's youngest daughter Roodica the Rude and her battles against the Romans. Part of the West End Festival
Tue 7 Jun 1:15pm 0141 276 1617
Free
Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, Glasgow Event
Date Tickets
Sue Reid Sexton: Mavis's Shoe
Sue Reid Sexton: Mavis's Shoe
Sue Reid Sexton's new novel is about the Clydebank blitz as seen through the eyes of a young girl during the Second World War. This dramatisation brings to life the devastation and loss of that war. Part of the West End Festival.

More May Events on FB

What a wonderful cover by Penguin Threads by Jillian Tamaki? I had to share it with you.

The usual monthly meetings of Weegie Wednesday is on May 18th and Word Play at the Tron on the 25th of May.

I apologise. I missed out too many events in May on this blog as I put up the events list too early. Please check out details of all the events on the Glasgowlitcorner FB page. There are events on 11th, 13th, 15th 18th and the 19th of May. An eclectic mixture of words in play.
You can take part in a Graphic Novel group, read a media publication at the launch of 'Bad news from Israel', enjoy Poetry at the Ivory, even witness a Matsuri Festival of Japanese poetry and I quote: 'A unique event with Scottish poets Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn, who have been travelling around Scotland inspired and guided by Japanese poet Basho for the past year. To accompany the 100-haiku word map of Scotland performed by Finlay and Cockburn along with ten other poet friends, there's music and teas from Japan and China, served by the Hidden Gardens' cultural cookery group' or be entranced by a Portuguese singer combining American blues with Argentinian national music. What riches to dip into? Go and enjoy!