On Sunday 16th June: Two TSFG members, Charles Wilkinson and Garrie Fletcher, will be taking part in the Midsummer Poetry Picnic to be held at Martineau Gardens, Birmingham at 2-6pm. They will be among supporting guest readers at the launch of a collaborative poetry book ‘Screen of Brightness’. For more details: http://www.martineau-gardens.org.uk/2013/05/midsummer-poetry-picnic/
On Wednesday 12th June, Gaynor Arnold will be receiving her award from the Lord Mayor of Coventry for her novel Girl in a Blue Dress. It was voted best historical novel in the Coventry Book Awards, beating both Hilary Mantel (for Wolf Hall) and Orange Prize winner Madeline Miller (Shield of Achilles).
On Thursday 13th June Gaynor will be at the Central library in Coventry at 6pm to talk about her second novel After Such Kindness, which is based on the relationship between Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell. The event is entitled ‘The Truth Behind the Facts’. Tickets via www.Coventryliterally2013.eventbrite.co.uk
Alan Beard’s flash fiction ‘All Light’ has won a ‘Highly Commended’ spot in the National Flash Fiction Day competition. You can read it here, should you so wish.
Amanda Smyth’s new novel ‘A Kind of Eden’ will be launched at 6pm on 10th July 2013 at Daunt’s Bookshop, London. For those who can’t get to London there is also a West Midlands launch on July 3rd at Waterstones, Leamington Spa, at 6:30pm.
Tindal Street Fiction Group 