TSFG member Kerry is launching her YA book ‘North Atlantic Drift’ on Friday 6th February 7:30 @ St Patrick’s Irish Club in Leamington Spa.
You can purchase and find more details here.
Kerry O’Grady’s Book Launch
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Gaynor Arnold to give the School of English (Birmingham City University) annual lecture.
Gaynor has been invited to speak on ‘Inventing the Past’ and she will talk about the genre sometimes described as ‘bio-fiction’. Her two nineteenth century novels, Girl in a Blue Dress and After Such Kindness are works of the imagination, but centre on actual historical people. Girl in a Blue Dress looks at the marriage of Charles Dickens from his wife’s point of view, while After such Kindness re-imagines the relationship between the child Alice and the adult Lewis Carroll.
Date: 17th Dec 2014. Venue: Baker 508, City North Campus (Perry Barr). 1-2pm.
Kit de Waal secures book deal with Viking
To top off a brilliant year (eg winner of the Bridport Flash Fiction prize; see below for more!) Kit has secured a deal for her first novel ‘My Name is Leon’ with Viking.
Book Trade says: Kit de Waal’s dazzlingly painful and uplifting debut takes the reader inside the mind of a little boy who will enchant and live on in the reader’s mind long after the last page is read.
Well done, Kit. Read more here: http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/57187/nl
Kit de Waal’s story on Radio 4.
Don’t miss Kit de Waal’s contribution to the Midlands Odyssey (see post below), soon to be aired on Radio 4, Sunday 30th November @7:45pm. A link to more details.
Adrift at the Athena
Shorts: Writing WestEpisode 1 of 3
SHORTS: New writing. New writers.
The first of three Midlands Odysseys: short stories written in response to The Odyssey – transplanting episodes from Homer’s epic to contemporary Midlands settings.
Ulysses Tate has been away for a long time and is trying to get home. At the Athena launderette, he meets a woman who shows him great kindness.
By Kit de Waal.
Producer: Mair Bosworth.
Garrie Fletcher appearing at events at the Birmingham Literature Festival
Garrie is collaborating with artist Anya Jung on creating ‘a modern take on an urban gothic tale, set amongst the twisted architecture of Birmingham’ in the form of a comic book completed over the ten days of the festival. On October 8th at 6:30 in the Library of Birmingham visitors can see how they’re getting along, and join in a Q & A session. More details here.
Garrie is also featured in a poetry workshop as part of the Festival’s Extra events. Details here. Take note too, of the Lost Districts tribute to Joel Lane also part of the Extra events.
Mick Scully appearing at Best British Short Stories 2014 event
Mick Scully, whose story ‘The Sea in Birmingham’ appears in the Best British Short Stories 2014 will be appearing at the Library of Birmingham on October 30th, alongside another Brummie and fellow contributor Louise Palfreyman, MJ Harrison and editor Nicholas Royle. The event is dedicated to Joel lane, who died last year. He was a prolific story writer and contributed to Best British Short Stories 2012. More information here.
Picture below from the Library of Birmingham.
Yasmin Ali appearing at Seven Minute Stories Event.
Join Yasmin and other writers for a discussion on commissioned work and hear extracts from their stories at the Library of Birmingham on November 26th @ 6pm. Full details here.
Elisabeth Charis and Yasmin Ali appearing at The Birmingham Literature Festival
Elisabeth is co-editor of the collection of tales inspired by the Odyssey, and Yasmin is a featured writers in the book. See below.
A Midlands Odyssey: with Natalie Haynes
October 7 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
| £8 / £6
Homer’s Odyssey is often claimed to be the great founding work of western literature. Three thousand years on, the story of Greek hero, Odysseus, and his epic journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War continues to inspire and enthral: shipwrecks and sirens, revenge and seduction, gods and mythical
creatures, it’s got it all.
A Midlands Odyssey is a collection of tales from the Odyssey, commissioned by Writing West Midlands and published by Nine Arches Press. Each tale has been set in the Midlands, and given new life by local writers.
Garrie Fletcher & Charles Wilkinson interview
TSFG members Garrie and Charlie both had stories in Unthology 5. They were invited to interview each other about their respective stories, and about lobsters in literature, for the Unthank blog. Pictures forthcoming..
Best British Short Stories 2014 includes Mick Scully.
TSFG member Mick Scully has a story – The Sea in Birmingham – included in this collection of the best short stories of the year. Well done Mick.
Of course the story was also the title story for our recent anthology celebrating 30 years of TSFG.
Mick’s success is the third story from TSFG members to feature in these annual anthologies. The first one in 2011 had a story from Alan Beard, and in the 2012 collection there was one from Joel Lane.
Tindal Street Fiction Group 