wordfringe
2009
1st–31st May 2009
Week 2
Saturday 9 May
11am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Lemon Tree Writers host a workshop by the award-winning author Laura Hird
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Saturday 9 May
3pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
CD launch of pop, sonic art, and spoken word, with Miriama Young and Catherine Bowman
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Saturday 9 May
5pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Lemon Tree Writers launch their new anthology
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Saturday 9 May
8pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
An evening of piano music and poetry with Susanne Olbrich and Margot Henderson
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Sunday 10 May
11am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Creative explorations with poetry and music
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Sunday 10 May
5pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Readings by members of Deeside Writers
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Sunday 10 May
7.30pm
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Readings and chat with two of Scotland's best known authors
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Week 3
Monday 11 May
7pm
Cellar 35, Aberdeen
Robert Ramsay launches his poetry collection, and Olivia McMahon reads from her new novel
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Tuesday 12 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
New poetry in English, Greek and Nepali with film, painting, digital art
and improvised music
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Wednesday 13 May
10am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
with Sheila Reid
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Friday 15 May
Saturday 16 May
Sunday 17 May
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen Writers' Festival
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Laura Hird and Esther Woolfson
Readings and chat with two of Scotland's best known authors
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Sunday 10 May 2009
7.30pm – 9.30pm
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Woodend Barn, Banchory [Map]
Admission £5 (concessions £3)
Tickets on the door, or telephone Woodend Barn to book: 01330 825431
Readings and chat with two of Scotland's best known authors.
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Laura Hird is the award-winning author of the collections, Nail and Other
Stories (Canongate, 1997) and Hope and Other Urban Tales (Canongate,
2006) and novel, Born Free (Canongate 2007) which was nominated for the Whitbread
and Orange Prizes. Her short stories have been published in numerous magazines and
anthologies internationally and her work translated into a number of European languages.
A book based around her mother's letters, Dear Laura was published by Canongate
in March 2007. Laura runs and edits her own loosely arts-related website www.laurahird.com on which she seeks out and publishes new
poetry, short stories, reviews and interviews.
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Esther Woolfson's book Corvus: A Life With Birds was published in
August 2008 to widespread acclaim. A writer of both fiction and non-fiction, Esther
has won prizes for short stories and for nature writing. Her work has appeared in
many anthologies, newspapers and journals. Her well-reviewed novel Piano Angel
was also published in 2008. Corvus is being translated into several languages,
including Polish and Portuguese, and will be published in the United States in April.
The British paperback is to be published in June 2009.
Esther lives in Aberdeen, sharing her home with a number of birds, including a rook
and a crow.
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