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Where can I find a retailer to talk to?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
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Work in the Head Office of a retailer? I’m a fiction writer and need to check a bit of my story is credible. If you fancy someone buying you booze / food while you talk about your workplace then please send what you do and your contact details to: matt@tallstory.co.uk Thanks! - Matt
Pen, ink and drink
Posted by cigarette_sigh about 1 year ago
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I want to start a writer’s group where people can come and test out new scripts, bits of fiction, poetry…in fact writing of all kinds. I was thinking of going to a quiet pub and congregating in the corner to read and discuss work without being too mean or pulling our punches too much. I’ve go...
LITRO - Original Fiction for the Underground: 50th Issue Party
Posted by LitroK about 1 year ago
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Yes, we know you’ll be nursing sore heads from the FCL meet-up the night before, but on Friday 13th April 2007 (lucky for some!), we will publish Issue 50 of Litro – the friendly, non-invasive species of freesheet, which features some damn fine short fiction each week. You lovely, literate lot are inv...
Second meeting of FCL Writers' Group
Posted by cigarette_sigh about 1 year ago
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A collection of raconteurs and reprobates gathered at Chandos, St Martin’s Lane for the first meeting of the FridayCities Writers’ Group. Having succeeded in not fighting or feuding, a second installment is scheduled for Wednesday 9th May (venue to be announced!) The format is fairly simple – everyone...
Jim Crace discusses The Pesthouse, 24th April
Posted by babybat about 1 year ago
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Jim Crace in Conversation with Dr Philip Tew at Waterstones, Gower Street, WC1 Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 6:30PM – 8:00PM Free Tickets Available instore The Whitbread award winning author Jim Crace will be discussing the relationship between fiction writers and academic critics with his biographer Dr Phil...
Roger Scruton: Culture Counts 28th June
Posted by babybat about 1 year ago
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What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this event renowned philosopher Roger Scruton will be discussing his new book ‘Culture Counts’ which defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. Refreshments will be ...
Kiran Desai signing at Waterstones
Posted by babybat about 1 year ago
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Booker Prize-winning author Kiran Desai will be signing her novel The Inheritance of Loss at Waterstones, on Gower Street, at 1pm on the 6th June. This is a free event, and everyone is welcome!
Which literary character would you love to run around London with?
Posted by cigarette_sigh about 1 year ago
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I’ve been dreaming a lot about running around town with Holly Golightly recently – a classic example of wish fulfilment if ever there was one. Which literary character would you like to have escort you round London? If I was going out drinking I might just pick Begbie from Trainspotting – the carna...
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