Literature

The Birmingham Book Festival runs from October 11th – 21st and has a quite impressive line-up of events and workshops with a quite international flavour. BBC Birmingham has some highlights.

Tindal Street Press are having a launch for Mick Scully’s new crime novel Little Moscow next Tuesday 12th June from 7.30pm onwards at the Bond Company, 180–182 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, B5 5SE. The event will feature author Mick Scully reading from Little Moscow and discussing his fiction with Nicola Monaghan, creative writing fellow at Birmingham’s … [Read more…]

Tindal Street Press are offering a “unique 12-month publishing traineeship to degree level applicants from the Black African, Caribbean, Asian, Chinese or Middle Eastern communities.” The following is copied from Birmingham Words (who don’t have permalinks on their blog so I can’t link directly…) Recent research highlights the under-representation of black and minority ethnic groups … [Read more…]

Issue 6 of Ten 4, the magazine of emerging creative talent published by Channel 4 and produced here in Birmingham, is now out. The theme of this issue is “Issues” and as usual a number of the article are online. You can buy Ten 4 in Virgin and Borders stores or pick it up for … [Read more…]

From Birmingham Words The Lichfield Poetry Writers are one year old and celebrating. “It’s a very exciting time for poets and poetry in Lichfield,” said Stewart Derry, the group’s director. “We’ve had a fantastic first year and needed to mark our birthday with a really special event.” The Big One will be a feast of … [Read more…]

From Birmingham Words: Local writer Jon Hartless has just had his second novel, An Officer and a Blob, appear at Double Dragon Publishing, an online publisher specialising in science fiction and fantasy. The site offers each of its books in a variety of digital download formats, and has recently added a paperback option to its … [Read more…]