3rd Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading
Dear Team
We are seeking budding unpublished fiction writers for our 3rd Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading (novelist ,short-story, playwrite, poem)? Do you have what it takes. If yes, we would like to hear from you.
Would you like an opportunity to read an extract from your completed chapter to other would-be writers and general public?
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Wood Green Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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Talk - The universe in the landscape
In a talk on his landscape work and recently published book, Charles Jencks explores several metaphors that underlie both growing nature and the laws of nature, comparisons and parallels that root us personally in the cosmos, as firmly as a plant.
“To see the World in a Grain of Sand/And Heaven in a Wild Flower,” the poetic insight of William Bl ...
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Kew Gardens
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Surrey
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United Kingdom
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Sebald Lecture
Sean O’Brien is a poet, critic, broadcaster, anthologist and editor.He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His first six individual poetry collections have all won awards, most recently The Drowned Book, which won both the 2007 Forward and T S Eliot Prizes, the first time a book ...
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Kings Place
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London
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United Kingdom
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Christmas Late Opening Evenings
Join us for mulled wine, mince pies and shopping until 9pm at our Marylebone High Street branch ...
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Daunt Books
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London
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United Kingdom
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Keats Walk
Follow the story of Keats's life in this two and a half hour walk around Hampstead with readings from some of his best-loved poems. Starting at Hampstead tube at 1pm, we will stroll through old Hampstead, visit the Vale of Health, dip into the Heath and finish at Keats House around 3.30pm.
Please wear comfortable shoes.
£6.00 (no con ...
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Keats House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Joy to the World
READING
6.30pm - 7.30pm.
Celebrate Christmas with a selection of festive poetry and prose read by the Keats House Poetry Ambassadors. Guaranteed to warm the cockles of the meanest scrooge.
Venue: Barbican Library
FREE, but you must book in advance. ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Max: A Celebration - Remembering W.G. Sebald
In a unique event, some of Britain’s leading writers and artists celebrate the life and writing of W.G. (Max) Sebald, the German writer and academic who had made Norfolk his home died on 14 December 2001. At the time of his death at the age of 57 he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped a ...
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Wilton’s Music Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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London in Fiction: The Jewish East End in the Radical 1930s
First published in 1935, Simon Blumenfeld's deliberately provocative debut novel Jew Boy marked a break in the depiction of the Jewish East End. Between the wars the Jewish East End was home to a unique cultural network of libraries, political and literary organisations, music societies, education classes, dance halls and billiard halls that co ...
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Bishopsgate Institute
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London
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United Kingdom
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Mafia State
Luke Harding talks about his new book “Mafia State”.
In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia’s Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather ...
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PUSHKIN HOUSE
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London
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United Kingdom
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Leonardo Fibonacci-s Arithmetical Revolution and the Birth of Modern Finance
In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the 7th and 8th centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and commerce, leav ...
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Italian Cultural Institute
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Cruel Fate of Varlam Shalamov
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907-1982) was a poet and prose writer, born in Vologda. He got involved in political opposition to Stalin, which culminated in his arrest: he served a prison sentence in Vishera Camp, Northern Urals, and then worked for industrial and technical journals for just a few short years. He was then arrested again and condemn ...
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PUSHKIN HOUSE
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London
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United Kingdom
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A G Stromberg - First Class Scientist, Second Class Citizen
Book Launch
A G Stromberg - First Class Scientist, Second Class Citizen
Language: In English with Russian translation
Meet the authors of A G Stromberg - First Class Scientist, Second Class Citizen and listen to a short presentation by Stromberg’s daughter, Elza A Zakharova, who will offer fascinating insights into his life. Letters, photog ...
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PUSHKIN HOUSE
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London
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United Kingdom
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Joanna Baillie: A Scottish Playwright in Nineteenth Century Hampstead
Sir Walter Scott and Lord Bryon thought Joanna Baillie was Britain’s greatest playwright since the time of Shakespeare. Dr McLean will discuss what three hundred recently discovered letters tell us about Baillie’s life in Hampstead and her relationships with famous contemporaries like Byron, Wordsworth and Dickens. ...
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Keats House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Keats, Kean and the Tragedy of Jane Porter-s Switzerland
This lecture will examine Keats’s relationship with Jane Porter, one of the most popular novelists of the nineteenth century, and their shared dangerous fascination with the most significant actor of their lifetimes, Edmund Kean. ...
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Keats House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Tama The Cat: The Book and its Author
This is the Year of the Rabbit, which is at times interchangeable with the cat. This event is for cat lovers, so if you would like to learn about the ideas for this book, discover more about the Maneki Neko and see some of Mr Ogden’s collection of beckoning cats, including one carved inside a crystal ball, then please join us. Copies of Tama the Ca ...
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Lodge Room No.11
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London
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United Kingdom
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Young Writers Autumn 2011
A 10-week writing course led by Olivier award-winning playwright Bola Agbaje and Lyric writer in residence Ella Hickson designed to inspire young writers aged 16 - 25 to develop their writing talent. ...
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Lyric Hammersmith
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London
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United Kingdom
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Keats Walk
There will be another walk on Sunday 18 December at 1pm - 3.30pm.
Follow the story of Keats's life in this 2 and a half hour walk around Hampstead with readings from some of his best-loved poems.
Starting at Hampstead tube at 11am, we will stroll through old Hampstead, visit the Vale of Health, dip into the Heath and finish at Keats House ...
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Hampstead Underground (Northern Line)
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London
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United Kingdom
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Lauren Child book signing
Bring your families along to our Hampstead branch for a book-signing and chat with the award-winning author of children's classics Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort. Copies of Lauren's latest book Ruby Redfort, Look into My Eyes will be available for purchase. ...
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Daunt Books Hampstead
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London
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United Kingdom
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Dark and Deep
Presented by Southbank Centre and Vayu Naidu Storytelling Theatre Company's License to Tell
Loss and its manifestations haunt the literary imagination across cultures, and across oral and written traditions.
In a compelling evening exploring dark and deep states of human nature, a reading from Whatever You Love, a new novel by award-winn ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Alexandra Harris
Alexandra Harris, the award-winning author of Romantic Moderns, focuses her attention on Virginia Woolf in her elegant new book. Her slim and finely-nuanced biography gives an insightful portrait of one of English Literature’s greatest figures, combining the broad sweep of Woolf’s life with flashes of intensely realised detail. Each sentence sparkl ...
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Keats House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Adam Gopnik in conversation with John Lanchester
Join us for a New Yorker double-bill. Adam Gopnik wrote the superb Paris to the Moon about his sojourn in France. Now, in The Table Comes First, he has broadened his horizons to follow in the footsteps of Brillat-Savarin, casting his eye over a whole world of food and its consumption to find answers to essential questions such as: Should a Manhatta ...
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Daunt Books Marylebone
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London
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United Kingdom
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Southbank Centre Book Club
Edmund de Waal: The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal's memoir tells the story of how his Jewish banker forebears flashed like a comet through the social and financial firmaments of 19th-century Europe, only to lose everything but a collection of 264 Japanese netsuke after the Nazis invaded Vienna in 1938.
Join us to discuss the book a ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Penelope Lively in conversation with Lawrence Sail
A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively - a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect.
In How It All Began, Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, and the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. Through a richly conceived and colourful cas ...
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Daunt Books Marylebone
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London
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United Kingdom
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Peter Englund in conversation with Juliet Gardiner
There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and e ...
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Daunt Books Chelsea
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London
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United Kingdom
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War Poets
A selection of poetry to commemorate Armistice Day including Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden.
FREE with an admission ticket to the house. ...
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Keats House
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London
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United Kingdom
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Book Launch: Deborah Levy-s Swimming Home
Darian Leader will be in discussion with Deborah Levy about her most recent novel.
Swimming Home tells the story of a group of tourists who come loose at the seams during a week’s holiday in the French Riviera - a subversive page-turner which considers the consequences of depression and what it means to be alive.
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Camden Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Wonderful New Dystopias
Joe Dunthorne and Naomi Wood
Joe Dunthorne and Naomi Wood read from their new books.
The last day on earth is coming - at least that's what the protagonist hopes for in Joe Dunthorne's eagerly-awaited new novel Wild Abandon, the follow up to Submarine.
Naomi Wood's remarkable debut The Godless Boys is a violent and tender port ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Keats House Poetry Appreciation Group
If you would like to join the group, please contact Ken Page at Keats House for more information. Please note that this is a poetry reading and appreciation group, not a poetry writing group.
The Keats House Poetry Appreciation Group has now covered many subjects. ...
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Keats House
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London
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United Kingdom
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An Evening With Short Story Writers
Canadian writer D.W. Wilson has just been named the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award. At 26, he is the youngest recipient in the prize's history. The winning story, The Dead Roads, is a tale of a highly-charged road trip.
Adam Marek was recently awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship in Short Story writing. His first story collec ...
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Daunt Books Hampstead
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London
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United Kingdom
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State of Emergency
Soleïman Adel Guémar, Luljeta Lleshanaku & Amjad Nasser
A unique opportunity to hear three poets from Algeria, Albania and Jordan read from and discuss their poetry. Luljeta Lleshanaku is regarded as the leading lyric poet in Albania. She grew up under house arrest and until the early 1990s was not allowed to attend university or p ...
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Southbank Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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