I missed yesterday’s West Port Book Festival event with Stuart Kelly, but the clever people at WPBF have provided us with a podcast. Stuart Kelly Collective Nouns Podcast Continue reading A Cooperative of Collective Nouns
I have just booked my first Edinburgh Book Festival Event. Stuart Kelly as a Guest Selector is running a series of events looking at The Future of Fiction. David Shields has a couple of entries on my to-read list, in particular Reality Hunger. Might get on to that next. Continue reading Edinburgh Book Festival Events
I was going to post about my evening at the Forest Cafe on Wednesday for our student blog Writing on Broken Glass, but although I made it to the venue I didn’t hear any of the performance. I was originally meeting Claire Stewart of Forge of the Wordsmiths for a coffee in Leith but she called to suggest the Forest as she was meeting a friend to watch The Golden Hour, a performance poetry and music gig. As my nephew had breezed into town the evening before, I decided to turn coffee into wine and dragged him from televised football to … Continue reading Performance Poetry Review … or not
The new blog by the students on the MA Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University went live this morning. Enjoy! http://www.writingonbrokenglass.wordpress.com Continue reading Writing on Broken Glass
… Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter Continue reading Currently Reading …
Writing the Long Way Around 