linlithgow
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A busy but doubtless exhilarating day awaits me tomorrow at Linlithgow Book Festival 2013. In the morning, I’m running a poetry workshop as I have done for the part several years. It’s at the Mel Gray centre at the canal basin from 10.30 to 12.30 and there are still some tickets available. In the afternoon,
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A huge thankyou to everyone who came to the Linlithgow launch of The North End of the Possible last night. It was a great turnout and, from my and Holm’s point of view, an enormous success. Here are a few photos of the evening, courtesy of my good friend Thomas Ritchie: Stewart, Frank and I
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This morning was spent planning my sets for the Linlithgow launch of The North End of the Possible on Saturday this week. I’m excited about this event, because it’s not only a chance to give an extended reading from the book but to work with the violin and electric guitar duo Holm. It’s not just
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I had a whale of a time at Linlithgow Book Festival this past weekend. The Saturday was particularly busy but hugely rewarding. I worked out that I must have done almost a 13-hour day, starting with the final prep for my poetry workshop through to leaving the Masonic Hall after the open mic at nearly
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November is almost upon us already, which means that — aside from all the ghoulish goodies in the supermarkets, the building of bonfires and the buying of fireworks — Linlithgow Book Festival is just around the corner. This year’s LBF runs from Friday, 2 November to Sunday, 4 November. As in previous years, I’m running
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It’s National Poetry Month in the UK and, to celebrate the fact, I’m doing a reading tomorrow (Tuesday 17 April) with fellow Linlithgow poet Jane McKie — winner of last year’s Edwin Morgan poetry competition — and Bathgate poet Alistair Findlay. The reading will be held at Far from the Madding Crowd, 20 High Street, Linlithgow.
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It’s World Book Night on Saturday 5 March, and St John’s Church, Linlithgow has a juicy wee event planned to celebrate. It’s the brainchild of David Todd, community outreach pastor, who is a registered World Book Night book giver-away, and I’ll be taking part. David will be giving away his WBN copies of Stuart: A
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The programme for this year’s Linlithgow Book Festival is now on the festival’s website. As you’ll see, there’s a distinctly criminal tone to the proceedings this time, but we’re also welcoming — among others — that Scottish magus the great Alasdair Gray along with his biographer, the novelist Rodge Glass. I’ll be running a poetry
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I’ve been toying with the idea of running a regular evening poetry workshop based in Linlithgow, perhaps starting next year, but I’d like to gauge whether there would be any takers for it before I make any hard and fast plans. Linlithgow is very easily accessible by train from Edinburgh, Glasgow and the metropolis of
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The reason for the shortness of breathing space mentioned in the previous post was, of course, Linlithgow Book Festival. LBF is now in its fourth year and simply going from strength to strength. This year, I was nowhere near as involved in organising and running it as I was the previous two but, aside from
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It’s just over a week to Linlithgow Book Festival 2009. The festival has managed to attract another great line-up on the usual funding shoestring, so please support it. I’ll be running a workshop on the Saturday morning, compering the open mic event on the Sunday evening and reading along with Jane McKie, Alistair Findlay, Douglas
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Blackwell’s on Thursday was a good night. A really varied bunch of perfomers — poetry, fiction, non-fiction and folk music — in a great venue, despite the traffic noise. It was a good audience, too. Heartening to see a mix of kent faces and new. Good on the bookshop for putting on such a good
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April, may be the cruelest month, but June is shaping up to be the busiest. This Sunday coming (14th), I’ll be doing not one but two readings. First of all, you can join me and a variety of other Linlithgow-based authors in the marquee at the Rugby Club for “Take Tea With an Author”, a
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That’s got to have been the best wee festival in the world we had the weekend before last. What a cracker LBF 08 was! Fiona Hyslop, the Scottish Government education secretary and a Lithgae resident, launched the festival and christened our new participants autograph book. She stayed around for Christopher Brookmyre‘s sell-out event. There was
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A busy weekend ahead with this year’s Linlithgow Book Festival kicking off on Friday. I’m particularly looking forward to the workshop I’m running and to Alistair Findlay’s reading on Sunday. Alistair is one of Scotland’s sharpest voices and a hugely entertaining reader. He’s an unusually political writer for this era and can be a bitingly
Amy Jo Philip 