Birmingham Book Festival are having an extra one-day festival on 29 May this year. The line-up of events (shamelessly nicked from their website) looks like this: National Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns to Birmingham for another much-anticipated reading. Novelist Helen Dunmore talks about her new novel Betrayal. Novelists Amanda Smyth (Black Rock), Aifric Campbell (The … [Read more…]
Bearing in mind their hit rate recently, it might be worth keeping an eye out for the Indeterminate Creatures by Alan Apperley, soon to be released into the world by Tindal Street Press (on 25 March, as I understand it). It’ll be the one with the cover that looks something like this: From the blurb … [Read more…]
Ooh, it’s a compelling title. They’re not so secret as to not invite people though: Join us at the Solihull Arts Complex this spring and delve into a secret library of contemporary artists’ books with an exhibition dedicated to the genre. Artists’ books and book works, installation and book-related performances will all be showcased The … [Read more…]
From Liz via email: The Birmingham BookCrossers and charity LUCIA are hosting a BOOK DATING event at the Urban Coffee Company coffee shop on Church Street in central Birmingham, on 14 February 2010. BookCrossers will be telling people about their favourite books, and giving them away, so attendees can find a book to spend a … [Read more…]
sampad are running Journeys – a writing competition with entries closing on 31 January 2010. You can write in any style – short story, poetry, reportage – using the theme of Journeys as a starting point. Use your imagination to evoke memories, sensations, your feelings about a journey you have made – in your dreams … [Read more…]
It was Tindal Street Press‘s 10th birthday the other week (happy birthday!). They’re a Birmingham-based, independent publisher with one heck of an impressive track record – three Booker nominated books isn’t bad for starters. They’ve just had a couple of books nominated for The People’s Book Prize too: Among Thieves by Mez Packer Box of … [Read more…]
Well, hello stranger. I just popped in to say hello and tell you all about An Endless Supply, a zine (if you will) created by some of the movers / shakers / candlestick makers of the Brum arts scene. It’s a monthly, black and white, print-to-order, A4 booklet. I was invited by the curator of … [Read more…]
In case you’ve not come across it, BookCrossing is “the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise”. There’s a Birmingham group who are meeting up next month: The Birmingham BookCrossers are hosting an author event with Mary Rochford, winner of A … [Read more…]