Now in its 14th edition, Birmingham Book Festival will be kicking off this year with a bevy of shindigs, including all night writing sessions, pop-up book shops and workshops; spanning everything from blogging in Libya to a session on finding your own Narrative voice by local print house Tindal Street Press. The main festival gets things rolling on … [Read more…]
Books, the bookish, the book; there’s never been a better time to talk about them. Not sitting here there hasn’t, anyway. Indicators are everywhere: books are in flux. Turnover in book publishing is growing slowly, but exports are accounting for a bigger share of the market. Micro-publishers are flourishing yet so are Ebooks. A decline … [Read more…]
The Spring Thing is a short festival hosted by Birmingham Book Festival, on 9 & 10 April with workshops, performances and readings going on throughout both days. There is crime (and cake!) with Sophie Hannah, performance poetry with Nine Arches Press, the Birmingham Poet Laureate and guests, John Hegley, workshops, pigeons, personae, city gardening with … [Read more…]
Birmingham Book Festival‘s writer networking event, The Writers’ Toolkit is taking place on 20 November at South Birmingham College from 10.30am – 4pm. The event is their third annual gathering, attracting both emerging and established writers along with those involved in the writing industry, including publishers, producers, agents and various organisations. The day is a … [Read more…]
That title should perhaps be capitalised, but I’m not sure whether it’s a Proper Thing or just a loose kinda ‘it’s complicated‘ thing*. Anyway, I’ve had an invite to the launch of a publication celebrating the ‘vitality, innovation and diversity’ of this group that comprises: Bass Festival Birmingham Book Festival Birmingham International Jazz and Blues … [Read more…]
Published by Punch and OOM Gallery, Birmingham based photographer Pogus Caesar is releasing a book entitled ‘Musik Kinda Sweet‘, which collects his iconic photographs of black performers over the last twenty five years. This evocative and nostalgic book captures candid snaps on the city streets, along with the contrasting vibrant energy by the stage, including … [Read more…]
The programme of events for this years Birmingham Book Festival has been announced Taking place from 5 – 21 October, the festival welcomes writers of all kinds, from journalists to novelists, and hosts a variety of events including workshops, lectures and the Fringe Festival. A few highlights include: Novelists Jonathan Coe and David Nicholls, who … [Read more…]
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…]