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11 Jan 2009  


T S Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings
Southbank Centre in London
All ten poets on the Shortlist are invited to read. Tickets from the Southbank box office on 0871 663 2500 or go to www.southbankcentre.co.uk to make sure you get a ticket!

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14 Jan 2009 at 6pm 


Julian Fellowes, Brighton
Tickets: £5/£4 concs
Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton


Lighthouse is delighted to welcome Oscar-winning screenwriter, actor, director and producer Julian Fellowes for an evening of discussion about his work and career with local director Dominic Santana. www.lighthouse.org.uk Spaces are limited.

14 Jan 2009 at June 1st - 14 and june 16-30 


Fiction Workshop with Sarah Van Arsdale
This workshop is designed to help you free the reigns and allow your
subconscious to go to work, so that you can dive more deeply into character and story. Each class will have time for writing exercises, for discussion of various points of writing such as setting, dialogue, and description, and for critiquing one another’s work. Together we’ll create an atmosphere of friendly criticism, with the intention of encouraging the writers to say that which is most important to them. We’ll take the work seriously, but we’ll do it with great good humor.

Beginners and more experienced writers are welcome; you can use the workshop either to generate ideas or to work on something already in progress.
This all-inclusive land package price of 2900 Euros (based on double occupancy) covers :
13 nights of lodging, meals (dinner, lunch, morning and afternoon tea, wine), all ground transportation costs, including airport transfers, excursions, mater

15 Jan 2009 at 6.30pm 


Thomas Glave, Leeds
The Viaduct, Lower Briggate, Leeds
07951-108-209
Thomas Glave is in town to promote his new book of short stories, The Torturer's Wife, as well as Our Caribbean, a collection of queer Caribbean writing which he edited.

16 Jan 2009 at 7.00-8.30pm 


Connecting Conversations with Gillian Slovo
Tickets: £12/£8 (includes a glass of wine)
The Institute of Psychoanalysis
112a Shirland Road
London
W9 2EQ
South African-born author Gillian Slovo talks to psychoanalyst Valerie Sinason about her work, including her new novel Black Orchids and its themes of race, of being an outsider and the search for home. to book visit www.connectingconversations.org o

17 Nov

18 Jan 2009 at 6.30pm 


Jasper Fforde
Tickets: Free
Gallery at Foyles, Charing Cross Road. Email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place
Monday 18 January, 6.30pm
Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey – Event & Q&A
On the first night of his long awaited UK tour Jasper Fforde launches his new book Shades of Grey. Ever humorous Fforde will reveal how he dreamt up a world where c

19 Jan 2009 at 7pm 


A Night with Arvon & Faber and Faber
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/spoken-word/words-on-monday/an-anniversary-reading
Celebrate with us! King's Place - the newest and most exciting new venue in London - is hosting a special night to mark 40 years of Arvon and 80 years of publisher Faber and Faber. Faber and Faber writers and Arvon alumni - Wendy Cope, Daljit Nag

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22 Jan 2009 at 7.30 - 11pm 


Paper Cuts - Literature meets Spoken Word
Tickets: £5/3
The Cross Kings
126 York Way
London N1
Niki Aguirre's debut collection of short fiction, 29 Ways to Drown was published in 2007 by Lubin & Kleyner. Niki is the recipient of the Birkbeck Outstanding Achievement Award for Creative Fiction (2006)

Salena Godden is an established

22 Jan 2009 at 7.30pm 


Michael X - a play
Tickets: £12/£10
Rich Mix, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green Road, London
A play about the life and times of the 60's radical Michael X, written by Vanessa Walters, starring Clint Dyer, directed by Dawn Walton.

22 Jan 2009 at 7 pm 



Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, London
(doors open at 6.30 pm – cash bar)
CENTRE FOR CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS AT UEA PRESENTS VISITING WRITERS AT THE SAVILE CLUB

Thursday 22 January 2009
Andrew Motion, Lavinia Greenlaw, Fiona Sampson
THE POETRY DEBATE

Friday 13 February 2009
RICHARD MABEY<

23 Jan 2009 at 6.30 PM – 7.30 PM 


Brighton Book Launch with a taste of Irish Music
Borders Bookshop, Churchill Square, BRIGHTON
Borders Bookshop and Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project announce the launch of A GOOD CONFESSION By Bridget Whelan, Writer in Residence at BUFCP.

Set in London and Ireland in the early 1960s, A GOOD CONFESSION is about breaking the

24 Jan 2009 at 7pm for 7.30pm 


Open Mic open night, Leighton Buzzard
Tickets: £2
Cafe Bar at Leighton Buzzard Library/Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard
*** Poetry *** Short stories *** Excerpts ***
All genres and all submissions welcome. The more diverse the better!

Appear in the programme! A limited number of slots are available to pre-book - email kate.allan@gmail.com
Readers also

25 Jan 2009 at 5.30-7.00pm 


Connecting Conversations with Elisabeth Russell Taylor
Tickets: £12/£8 (includes a glass of wine)
The Freud Museum,20 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SX
Nearest tube Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage
Novelist Elisabeth Russell Taylor talks to psychotherapist Ruth Barnett about her writing. With particular reference to Tomorrow and Pillion Riders (a Virago Modern Classic) they will explore the way in which fiction can take readers beyond their com

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