The Writeidea Festival 2016 East London’S FREE Reading Festival

The Writeidea Festival 2016 East London’s FREE Reading Festival

11-13 November 2016

East The London’s FREE Writeidea Reading Festival Festival 2016 11-13 November 2016 www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/writeideahttp://writeideafestival.org INTRODUCTION Welcome to the eighth East End myths and history, edition of the Writeidea real and imagined detectives, Festival, Tower Hamlets travellers, revolutionaries, Council’s unique free music icons, and plenty of reading festival. fascinating stories to fill us all with wonder. Local history is Once again, this is truly a always a popular theme at people’s event, with many Writeidea, so look out for the authors suggested by local strand of talks on Saturday people, and others chosen 12 November, programmed from an ever wider range by our colleagues at Tower of fiction and non-fiction Hamlets Local History writers and performers. Library & Archives, on Our free-entry policy has Bancroft Road. proved very popular in the past, and we are confident By now regular festival this year we will again see goers will know that you can new people alongside those prepare for the Writeidea who regularly enjoy literary by reading all the authors’ events. books for free - you just need an Idea Store card We are very grateful to the (also free) to borrow them. Arts Council of England for If you really liked a book and their continued support, and want to have your own copy, to the Canary Wharf Group you can purchase one during for their contribution. the festival weekend at the We are particularly pleased stall provided by Brick Lane to kick off events on Friday Books, our independent, local bookshop. 11 November with the legendary Polari, London’s We hope you enjoy our award winning LGBT literary unique Writeidea Festival. salon, and from then on, it’s a rollercoaster ride through This symbol indicates that this event will be British Sign Language interpreted

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Details in this brochure are correct at the time of print, but the programme may be subject to last minute changes. For the latest information see the Writeidea Festival website http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/writeidea FESTIVAL LAUNCH

URBAN PLAYGROUND

Ground Floor Foyer 6:00pm

Urban Playground is Morpeth Most recently they have School’s large woodwind returned from a tour of the and brass ensemble. The Hague partnering with the band, which is made up of International School of the students from Years 7 to 13, Hague. They have also had has performed all over the the privilege to work with world, including New York, amazing musicians such as Madrid and Iceland, as well Wynton Marsalis, Christian as at many great festivals in Scott, Arun Ghosh and the the UK, including the Cultural Soul Rebels Brass Bands. Olympiads and BT River of Music. FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER

POLARI

7:00pm Dance Studio Image: Justin David

Writeidea is delighted to be Founded and hosted by hosting Polari - London’s the author Paul Burston, award-winning LGBT literary Polari provides a platform salon. for LGBT authors to Described by the New York present their work in a fun Times as ‘London’s most and supportive manner. theatrical salon’ and by The Supporters include Patrick Independent on Sunday as Gale, Ali Smith, and Sarah ‘London’s peerless gay literary Waters, who describes salon’, Polari now has its Polari as “a guaranteed home at the Southbank. good night out”. SATURDAY PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

Kimberley Chambers 1:00pm Dance Studio Emily Bullock 1:00pm Lab 2/3 Roger Mills 1:00pm Conference Room Melanie Whipman 1:00pm Lab 1a Ben Aaronovich 2:30pm Dance Studio Housing Panel 2:30pm Lab 2/3 Georgie Wemyss 2:30pm Conference Room Simon Savidge 2:30pm Lab 1a Ann Cleeves 4:00pm Dance Studio Ben Judah 4:00pm Lab 2/3 Laurence Ward 4:00pm Conference Room Roddy Slorach 4:00pm Lab 1a Vaseem Khan 5:30pm Dance Studio Suzanne Joinson 5:30pm Lab 2/3 Sarah Wise 5:30pm Conference Room Rowan Moore 5:30pm Lab 1a Jan Blake 5:30pm 4th Floor Dan Cruickshank 7:00pm Dance Studio

- Local History events

Rooms may be subject to change - please check on the day 1:00PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS EMILY BULLOCK From Roman Road Trader The Longest Fight io to Bestselling Author 1:00pm Lab 2/3 1:00pm Dance Studio

Set in 1950s London amid Join the inimitable Kimberley the gritty and violent world Chambers as she discusses of boxing, Emily Bullock’s her latest bestseller. beautiful and brutal debut The fourth book in the hugely is the story of one man’s popular Butler family series, struggle to overcome the ‘Tainted Love’ will immerse mistakes and tragedies of you in a world of loveable his past. ‘The Longest Fight’ villains, forbidden affairs, was inspired by Emily’s doomed marriages and dark boxing grandfather and is secrets. an exploration of love and family loyalty. Emily is a Kimberley writes with real prize-winning short story authenticity and is a truly writer and teaches creative colourful character herself writing. She is currently with a legendary legion of working on a new novel loyal fans across the country. about a matriarchal family set With a background as a DJ, in London at the end of the a cabbie and a street trader 19th Century: ‘Love, Death, on Roman Road, she has and Penny Gaffs’. fascinating stories to share. 1:00PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

ROGER MILLS MELANIE WHIPMAN Everything Happens in Creative Writing Workshop a Cable Street 1:00pm Lab 1a 1:00pm Conference Room

Join Melanie for a book reading, and a creative There are other stories of writing workshop. she’ll East London’s Cable Street discuss the importance of apart from the famous Battle characterisation in the short of 1936, when locals saw off story and unleash your the fascists. Then a Jewish creativity with some fun area, it later became a red- writing execises. All abilities light district and the book welcome; just bring a pen and film ‘To Sir, With Love’ and notebook. is set there. Author Roger Mills talks Melanie was the winner about the above and his of our 2014 short story own experiences with the competition and has her first Basement Writers, Wilton’s collection of short stories out Music Hall, the Community this year, which includes her Gardens, the edgy Artists’ winning story. Studios and the creation of the Cable Street Mural.

2:30PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

BEN AARONOVICH HOUSING PANEL Rivers of London The Crisis in Housing 2:30pm Dance Studio 2:30pm Lab 2/3

A screenwriter for Doctor Unaffordable rents, Who and Casualty, Ben deregulation, revenge Aaronovitch is author of evictions, and day-to-day the acclaimed ‘Rivers Of instability: these are the London’ series. The cult realities for the eleven million novels follow the adventures people currently renting of Peter Grant, detective privately in the UK. At the constable and apprentice same time, house prices wizard as he tries to maintain are skyrocketing and the law and order amongst the generational promise of more fantastical members home ownership is now of London’s population. an impossible dream for A unique blend of police many. A panel of housing procedural and supernatural experts including Gateway mayhem with threads Housing and Defending of hidden history woven Council Housing will debate through the plots, ‘The the state of housing today, Hanging Tree’, the sixth in with contributions from the the series, will be published audience. in November. 2:30PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

GEORGIE WEMYSS SIMON SAVIDGE

Excavating the Global Social Media, Blogging Lives of Indian Seafarers and Vlogging 2:30pm Conference Room 2:30pm Lab 1a

Georgie Wemyss is a Simon Savidge, who runs Senior Research Fellow at the popular Savidge Reads the Centre for research on and hosts The Readers Migration, Refugees and Podcast, will be talking about Belonging, based at the social media, blogging, University of East London. vlogging (a world he has recently joined and is loving) During this talk, she will and podcasting, as well as explore the largely hidden how to reach out to a wide stories of seafarers from community. South Asia who have been working on British-owned Simon has recently joined ships, crossing borders and the publishers Orion as an arriving in London and other editorial consultant and will ports across the globe since be advising them on a new the seventeenth century. series with a diverse voice. 4:00PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

ANN CLEEVES BEN JUDAH Shetland Noir & Other Crime This is London: Life and Death in the World City 4:00pm Dance Studio 4:00pm Lab 2/3 Photo: Micha Theiner Photo: Alexander James

Ann Cleeves is the bestselling author behind ITV’s Vera and BBC’s Acclaimed foreign Shetland. She has written correspondent and author over twenty-five novels, and Ben Judah will be speaking created detectives Vera about, and reading from, his Stanhope and Jimmy Perez new book ‘This Is London: - characters loved both on Life and Death in the World screen and in print. City’. In 2006 Ann won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie ‘This Is London’ explodes Dagger, the richest crime- the fossilized myths of our writing prize in the world, for capital city and offers a fresh, her novel, ‘Raven Black’. exciting portrait of what it’s like to live, work, fall in love, Ann will be giving an insight raise children, grow old and into her writing career and die in London now. After Ben discussing her exciting new has spoken, the floor will Shetland crime novel ‘Cold be opened up for audience Earth’. Q&A. 4:00PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

LAURENCE WARD RODDY SLORACH Exploring the LCC Bomb A Very Capitalist Condition: Damage Maps, 1939-1945 A History and Politics of Disability 4:00pm Conference Room a 4:00pm Lab 1a

Roddy Slorach shows how capitalism creates disability This talk will describe the by turning our minds and air raids of the Second bodies into commodities to World War and the terrible be priced and traded. Those damage they inflicted on who don’t fit are identified both Londoners and their as a problem. This book city, before focussing on how examines the origins and the damage was recorded by development of disability, means of an incredible set of looking at movements in hand coloured maps created different parts of the world by the London County and the hidden history of Council. groups such as disabled war Laurence Ward is the Head veterans, deaf people and of Digital Services at London those in mental distress. It Metropolitan Archives and argues that Marxism helps the author of ‘The London provide an understanding County Council Bomb of the politics and nature of Damage Maps, 1939-1945’. disability and offers a vision of a better world for all. 5:30PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

VASEEM KHAN SUZANNE JOINSON AMIT DHAND & ABIR MUKHERJEE The Photographer’s Wife The Secret to Writing 5:30pm Lab 2/3 Bestselling Crime Fiction 5:30pm Dance Studio

‘The Photographer’s Wife’ is a powerful story of betrayal: between father and daughter, between husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in 1920s Jerusalem and 1930s Sussex. Join three successful British Suzanne Joinson is an award- crime authors as they talk winning writer of fiction and about their writing journeys, non-fiction whose work has their work and the key appeared in, among other ingredients they think are places, the New York Times, necessary to succeed in Vogue, Aeon, Lonely Planet today’s hyper-competitive travel writing anthologies and publishing industry. They the Independent on Sunday. will discuss method, plot, Her first novel, ‘A Lady characterisation, setting, and Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar’ the often opaque process was translated into sixteen of publishing, with tips from languages and was a national their own experiences. bestseller. 5:30PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

SARAH WISE ROWAN MOORE ‘The Fairyland of Horror’: Slow Burn City: London in a Shoreditch slum, and the the Twenty First Century lies that were told about it 5:30pm Lab 1a 5:30pm Conference Room

Fiercely intelligent, thought- provoking, lucidly written Police would not patrol there, and often very funny, ‘Slow even in daylight; no strangers Burn City’ is packed with would chance their arm fascinating stories about the there; it was a nest of cosh- physical fabric of London carriers and prostitutes. The in the twenty-first century. Old Nichol in East London Seeing this fabric as the has had a terrible press over theatre of social and cultural the past 150 years or so. But struggles, Rowan Moore, did it deserve it? architecture critic of The Observer, connects the Historian Sarah Wise has political and architectural pieced together a much decisions of London’s more complex picture of enfeebled and reactive life in the slum. And in the government with the built process, the Nichol legend environment that affects its dies a death. inhabitants’ everyday lives. 5:30PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

JAN BLAKE Storytelling 5:30pm 4th Floor

As one of the leading As well as performing at storytellers for adults and all the major storytelling children, Jan Blake has been festivals both nationally and performing worldwide for internationally, she works over 30 years. Specialising regularly with the British in stories from Africa, the Council, leads storytelling Caribbean, and Arabia, she workshops for emerging has a well-earned reputation storytellers, and gives for dynamic and generous masterclasses. Jan will storytelling. Recent highlights be presenting one of her include Hay Festival, the mesmerising stories for an Viljandi Harvest Festival adult audience. in Estonia and both TEDx Warsaw & TEDx Manchester. 7:00PM SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER

DAN CRUICKSHANK Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets 7:00pm Dance Studio

Architectural historian and evolved, including the television presenter Dan transformation he himself Cruickshank will tell the witnessed. From when story of Spitalfields, where he first arrived during the he has lived for the past 1970s and encountered a four decades. Starting in war-damaged collection of Roman times and continuing semi-derelict houses, to the right up to the present day, vibrant community it is today. Cruickshank will explain how Spitalfields’ streets have SUNDAY PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

Kate Summerscale 1:00pm Dance Studio Catherine Johnson 1:00pm Lab 2/3 Mary & Brian Talbot 1:00pm Conference Room Mel Evans 1:00pm Lab 1a Sunny Singh 1:00pm Lab 1 Slambassadors 1:00pm 4th Floor Paul Trynka 2:30pm Dance Studio Joan Ellis 2:30pm Lab 2/3 Kate Evans 2:30pm Conference Room Chris Russell 2:30pm Lab 1a Dean Atta 2:30pm 4th Floor Kerry Ann Mendoza 4:00pm Dance Studio Sara Barnard 4:00pm Lab 2/3 Keiron Pim 4:00pm Conference Room Brix Smith Start 4:00pm Lab 1a Bards Without Borders 4:00pm 4th Floor Peter Kennard 5:30pm Dance Studio Taran Matharu 5:30pm Lab 2/3 Matthew Green 5:30pm Conference Room Barney Hoskyns 5:30pm Lab 1a Mile End Project 5:30pm Lab 1 Short Story Competition 5:30pm 4th Floor Philip Norman 7:00pm Dance Studio

- Young Adult author events Rooms may be subject to change - please check on the day 1:00PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

KATE SUMMERSCALE CATHERINE JOHNSON The Wicked Boy Blade and Bone 1:00pm Dance Studio 1:00pm Lab 2/3

‘The Wicked Boy’ is a Novelist and screenwriter gripping account of a murder Catherine Johnson has case that sent late Victorian written many novels for Britain into a frenzy, by the young readers including the bestselling, multi-award- award winning ‘Sawbones’, winning author of ‘The and her most recent, Suspicions of Mr Whicher’. Carnegie Medal nominated Kate Summerscale’s latest ‘The Curious Tale of the book is a compelling and Lady Caraboo’. She’s spent shocking study of two young a life in stories, working at brothers, Robert and Nattie Centerprise in Dalston, Coombes, who became an as writer in residence in overnight sensation when Holloway Prison and they were discovered to contributed to the film Bullet have murdered their mother. Boy. Catherine will talk about Kate’s extensive research ‘Blade and Bone’, the new uncovers how notions of sequel to ‘Sawbones’ and, class, education, gender as a highly experienced and criminality played a creative writing mentor, will role in the case. be giving tips on how to get into writing yourself. 1:00PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

MARY & BRIAN TALBOT MEL EVANS The Red Virgin and the Artwash Vision of Utopia 1:00pm Lab 1a 1:00pm Conference Room

In ‘Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts’, Mel Evans provides This is the third collaboration a gripping exposé on by graphic novel pioneers the murky world of oil Bryan and Mary Talbot. It tells sponsorship of the arts, the amazing life of Louise focusing on the deep-rooted Michel, the revolutionary relationship between our art feminist dubbed ‘The Red institutions and the multi- Virgin of Montmartre’. national corporations that Utopian, anarchist, teacher, fund them. In the wake orator and poet - she was of massive environmental decades ahead of her time. disasters created by the oil She fought on the barricades industry, companies such as during the Paris Commune BP and Shell are using arts of 1871. After its defeat, sponsorship as a calculated when she was deported to a PR exercise to ‘artwash’ penal colony, she supported their soiled reputations, the indigenous population raising important questions against French colonial about artistic censorship and oppression. Bryan and Mary complicity, as art institutions will talk about Michel and find themselves inextricably about their other work. associated with Big Oil. 1:00PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

SUNNY SINGH SLAMBASSADORS In conversation with Poetry Slam Rachel Shabi 1:00pm 4th Floor 1:00pm Lab 1

What happens when war A performance poetry event comes home? Or when the introduced by Joelle Taylor, news reporter becomes news professional spoken word itself? Are love, friendship, artist, published poet and honour, courage, mere words playwright. in an increasingly fragmented, Slam is the competitive art violent world? Join writer, of spoken word performed activist and academic, before a loud and lively Sunny Singh as she talks audience. about her latest novel, ‘Hotel Arcadia’, a literary thriller SLAMbassadors UK is the exploring identities, politics, Poetry Society’s national love and survival in an youth slam championships increasingly uncertain world. and the longest running In a wideranging discussion youth slam in the country, with writer, journalist and involving as many young broadcaster, Rachel Shabi, people as possible in the session will cover politics reading, writing, and of fiction and the challenges performing poetry. of fictionalising lived realities. 2:30PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

PAUL TRYNKA JOAN ELLIS Starman: David Bowie A Woman’s Wit, Wisdom and Pratfalls 2:30pm Dance Studio 2:30pm Lab 2/3

Join ‘funny, fascinating’ author Many music fans were Joan Ellis as she takes a wry stunned to hear that a new view of a woman’s lot. Share single and album would be her banana-skin moments and released by David Bowie in hear celebrity anecdotes as January. The whole world she recalls life as a copywriter was stunned when they working in London with the heard that Bowie had died. likes of Felicity Kendall and Paul Trynka paints the Harry Enfield. definitive portrait of Bowie: musician, innovator, fashion Meet the women from Joan’s icon and sexual pioneer. books: Ella - girl in a man’s He describes Bowie’s life world in 80s Adland. Sandra - from post-war, bombed-out woman who loves too much, Brixton, to the decadent in the thriller inspired by Joan’s glamour of Ziggy Stardust terrifying encounter with a and the vital Berlin period. murderer. Susan - young Starman is a celebration mum compelled to discover of Bowie’s brilliance and a the awful truth. Joan, herself, timely reminder of how hapless, single working Mum. great music is made. 2:30PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

KATE EVANS CHRIS RUSSELL Red Rosa: A Graphic Songs About a Girl Biography of Rosa 2:30pm Lab 1a Luxemburg 2:30pm Conference Room

Chris Russell is a writer Described as “utterly brilliant” and musician. His novel, by fellow cartoonist Steve ‘Songs About A Girl’, is Bell, ‘Red Rosa’ tells the about heartbreak, pop music story of the dramatic life and the power of teenage of this giant of the left. obsession. It tells the story Luxemburg overcame of sixteen-year-old aspiring disability and the prejudice photographer Charlie Bloom, she faced as a Jew and whose life spirals out of a woman to become a control when she is invited to revolutionary and a thinker take backstage photos for a whose philosophy enriched chart topping boyband. an incredibly productive and creative life. Chris will perform some of Kate Evans’ beautifully drawn the songs he has written work of graphic biography for the novel and talk about brings Rosa Luxemburg’s how his love for music as a extraordinary life to a new teenager led him to start a audience. band and travel around the world. 2:30PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

DEAN ATTA Poetry can be life changing 2:30pm 4th Floor

Dean Atta’s collection, ‘I Am Nobody’s Nigger’, ‘I Am Nobody’s Nigger’, written to commemorate was shortlisted for the Polari Stephen Lawrence, went First Book Prize and he is viral on YouTube. Dean currently working on his will be presenting this second poetry collection and other poems from his ‘The Black Flamingo’. collections. Dean is described by the Huffington Post as “one of the leading lights in London’s poetry scene” and he was named as one of the most influential LGBT people in the UK by the Independent on Sunday Pink List. 4:00PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

KERRY-ANN MENDOZA SARA BARNARD Murder by Austerity Beautiful Broken Things and after 4:00pm Dance Studio 4:00pm Lab 2/3

Kerry-Anne Mendoza is a writer, blogger, activist and Join Zoella Book Club founding Editor-in-Chief of star and emerging UKYA The Canary. She is known talent Sara Barnard, in for creating one of the UK’s a conversation all about top independent political friendship, first loves and blogs, Scriptonite Daily; for her incredible year since authoring the best-seller ‘Beautiful Broken Things’ ‘Austerity’; and for her Middle was published. East reporting during times of active bombardment. Sara is inspired by ‘what-ifs’ and people. She thinks sad The Canary books are good for the soul (www.thecanary.co) is and happy books lift the a counterpoint to the heart. She hopes to write mainstream media. It is lots of books that do both. founded on the belief that ‘Beautiful Broken Things’ is a free, fair, and fearless her first book and a dream media is the bedrock of a come true. functioning democracy. 4:00PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

KEIRON PIM BRIX SMITH START Jumpin’ Jack Flash The Rise, The Fall & The Rise 4:00pm Conference Room 4:00pm Lab 1a Photo: Keiron Tovell Photo: Amelia Troubridge

Whitechapel-born David Litvinoff was the fast-talking Brix spent ten years in The provocateur who counted Fall, described variously as the Krays and the Stones radically dysfunctional and as friends and whose as the most influential anti- underground experiences authoritarian postpunk band provided the inspiration for in the world. Then a violent the cult film Performance. disintegration led to her exit One of the great mythic and the end of her marriage characters of Sixties London, with Mark E Smith. Hollywood a ghostly figure linking the -raised Brix has gone from disparate worlds of crime, luxury to destitution, from the aristocracy, pop music the cover of the NME to and the gay demi-monde - waitressing in California. and one of the few people able to insult Ronnie Kray to Hers is a story of constant his face and live to tell the reinvention; a singular journey tale. Keiron Pim talks about of a teenage American girl on Litvinoff and his experience a collision course with English writing a life of a man radicalism on her way to determined to leave no mid-life success in fashion trace of his existence. and on TV. 4:00PM 5:30PM

BARDS WITHOUT PETER KENNARD BORDERS Unofficial War Artist 4:00pm 4th Floor 5:30pm Dance Studio

Bards Without Borders Over a 45 year career are a group of poets and Peter Kennard has been performers from refugee recognised as the leading and migrant backgrounds. political artist in Britain. His images have become The Bards combine music synonymous with the idea and poetry to present a new of protest and have been multilingual and exciting reproduced as badges, response to the work of postcards and placards, William Shakespeare. as well as in newspapers The Bards are speaking and galleries. His major back to Shakespeare and retrospective Unofficial War challenging him and are Artist showed at the Imperial from countries ranging from War Museum. For Writeidea Bangladesh to Tanzania, he will talk about attempting they have a truly global take to make a different narrative on Shakespeare, which is through using image and fun, thought-provoking and text or using montage. He’ll powerful. also talk about making @earth - a book with no words. 5:30PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

TARAN MATHARU DR MATTHEW GREEN The Novice A Time Traveller’s Guide to London 5:30pm Lab 2/3 5:30pm Conference Room

Taran Matharu wrote his Join historian and first book when he was nine broadcaster Dr Matthew years old. At twenty-two, he Green and discover how began posting ‘The Novice’ London cracked out of its on Wattpad (the online medieval shell, sprawled writing website) and reached into the suburbs and over three million reads in blossomed into the biggest less than six months. ‘The city on the face of the earth. Novice’ is the first of three This immersive whirlwind books in the Summoner tour will take you through series, and Taran Matharu’s 2,000 years of London’s fiction debut. He will be rich and chequered history, talking about his unusual visiting medieval bear journey to becoming a pits; Georgian chocolate published author, and will be houses; Shakespearean answering questions on how playhouses and Victorian you can use his techniques pornography shops; Roman do the same. amphitheatres and 1950s Brutalist blocks. 5:30PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

BARNEY HOSKYNS Small Town Talk 5:30pm Lab 1a

Think ‘Woodstock’ and there himself in the 1990s, the mind turns to the Hoskyns will talk about Bob seminal 1969 festival that Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jimi crowned a seismic decade Hendrix and a vital music of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ scene in a revolutionary time roll. In ‘Small Town Talk’, and place. Barney Hoskyns recreates Woodstock’s community Barney Hoskyns is the co- of brilliant dysfunctional founder and editorial director musicians, opportunistic of online rock-journalism hippie capitalists and library Rock’s Backpages scheming dealers, drawn (www.rocksbackpages.com), to the area by Bob Dylan. A former US correspondent Drawing on first-hand for MOJO, Hoskyns writes interviews with the remaining for Uncut and other UK key players in the scene, and publications, and has on the period when he lived contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone and GQ. 5:30PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

MILE END COMMUNITY WRITEIDEA PRIZE: PROJECT SHORT STORY AWARDS Fillm Screening and Q&A 5:30pm 4th Floor 5:30pm Lab 1

The Mile End Community Join us for a double awards Project (MCP) is an ceremony where the winners award-winning youth and will be announced in our community project that short story competitions. inspires young people and communities to express The Writeidea 2016 Short themselves creatively. Story Prize is a competition Formed by a group of young aimed at writers who have never been published before. volunteers in 1995, MCP has become an established The Writeidea ESOL Prize and popular youth and is a local short story prize community organisation, for learners enrolled on known particularly for its Idea Store Learning ESOL award winning film-making (English for Speakers of Other projects and campaigns. To Languages) courses. date, MCP films have won eight awards - both national and international - and shortlisted, exhibited, and screened at a number of high profile festivals. 7:00PM SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER

PHILIP NORMAN Paul McCartney: The Biography 7:00pm Dance Studio

Packed with the new information and critical insights that are the hallmark of Philip Norman’s work, this is a chronicle of the life of a modern immortal.

In 2013, Sir Paul McCartney granted Philip Norman - whom he had previously considered implacably hostile towards him - ‘tacit approval’ as his biographer. Philip Norman’s biography reveals history’s most successful songwriter, a man of seemingly effortless talent, beauty and charm, to be a complex, insecure workaholic who still feels as great a need to prove himself in his 70s as when he was a teenager. SPARE PAGE

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