3rd Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading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We are seeking budding unpublished fiction writers for our 3rd Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading (novelist ,short-story, playwrite, poem)?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?
All submission must be in before 15th June 2012 ...
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Wood Green Library
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London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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Japan Society Book Club: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day (1989) is Kazuo Ishiguro’s third published novel and was awarded the ‘Man Booker Prize for Fiction’ in 1989. The book was adapted into the 1993 Merchant & Ivory film which starred Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
Written from the first person perspective of Stevens, the aging butler of Darlington Hall, Ishiguro tells a story of dignity, loyalty, memory and politics. ...
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5th View
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London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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Japan Society Book Club: People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
Many may recall the chilling news story of Lucie Blackman’s disappearance and murder. Lucie a British woman had gone to see Japan as well as to find work. She ended up working as a bar hostess in the Roppongi area of Tokyo. Just months after she arrived in Japan, Lucie disappeared and her body was found some time later. The following murder investigation eventually led to the conviction of Joji Ob ...
Event at:
5th View Waterstones
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 Blake, is to find relationships between the very big ...
Event at:
Kew Gardens
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Surrey
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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Geoff Dyer: Zona
The ICA is delighted to welcome Geoff Dyer for an illustrated conversation about his new book published by Canongate in February. Dyer, described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain', takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Magnificently unpredictable and hilarious (and, surely, one of the most unusu ...
Event at:
Institute of Contemporary Arts
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 has won both awards. He published his first novel ...
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Kings Place
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 concessions).
Booking is essential. Contact Keats ...
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Keats House
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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
in
London
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United Kingdom
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Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize for ...
Event at:
Wilton’s Music Hall
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 jackets, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, t ...
Event at:
PUSHKIN HOUSE
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 connected to each other in ways that have seemed alm ...
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Bishopsgate Institute
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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, leaving behind Muslim cultures which had long known it ...
Event at:
Italian Cultural Institute
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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, photographs and other unique material will be on display ...
Event at:
PUSHKIN HOUSE
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 condemned to five years’ hard labour for ‘counter-revolut ...
Event at:
PUSHKIN HOUSE
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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. ...
Event at:
Keats House
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 Cat and other delights will be available after the t ...
Event at:
Lodge Room No.11
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 around 1.30pm.
£6.00 (no concessions).
...
Event at:
Hampstead Underground (Northern Line)
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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-winning Louise Doughty, is presented alongside Vayu Na ...
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Southbank Centre
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 ahead of the author's appearance here on 9 Dece ...
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Southbank Centre
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 sparkles with enthusiasm, making it a perfect introducti ...
Event at:
Keats House
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 Manhattanite bother to find chicken killed in the Bronx? A ...
Event at:
Daunt Books Marylebone
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 cast of characters, Penelope Lively explores the powe ...
Event at:
Daunt Books Marylebone
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 even beauty. This is a piece of anti-history: it br ...
Event at:
Daunt Books Chelsea
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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. ...
Event at:
Keats House
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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. ...
Event at:
Keats House
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 collection Instruction Manual for Swallowing was nominat ...
Event at:
Daunt Books Hampstead
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London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 portrayal of an oppressive state.
The readings are ...
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Southbank Centre
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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.
...
Event at:
Camden Arts Centre
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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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 publish her poems. Her new collection Haywire is a ...
Event at:
Southbank Centre
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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Poetry Library Book Club - Derek Mahon
This November Derek Mahon celebrates his 70th birthday and our Poetry Library Book Club marks the occasion by looking at his work. Mahon is one of Northern Ireland's most significant contemporary poets, though his time away from his homeland has resulted in a stance much more international and cosmopolitan than his peers. We refer to the text of his New Collected Poems (Gallery Press, 2011) an ...
Event at:
Southbank Centre
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy presents a reading from her new book The Bees, her first full collection since becoming Poet Laureate in 2009.
In poems which explore place and custom, Duffy explores love, politics and comedy with a deftness of language uniquely her own.
Carol Ann Duffy has won the Whitbread, Forward and TS Eliot Prizes for her work. She is accompanied by musician John Sampson at this excl ...
Event at:
Southbank Centre
in
London
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United Kingdom
Type of Event:
Literary Events - Book Launch - Readings
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