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FREE ENTRY TO ALL EVENTS FOR MEMBERS Company No: SC349247, Scottish Charity No: SC040823 Alistair Moffat Neil Williamson Aonghas Macneacail Linda Jackson Lorn Macintyre Sue Reid Sexton and Kusay Hussein Alan Spence Alan Bissett Janet Paisley ‘Writing and Song’: An Evening with Neil Williamson In Process Masterclass: Lorn Macintyre ‘Perfecting The Page’ Writing Class with Alan Bissett 'Diverse Communities', with Chiew-Siah Tei Tuesday 9th April 2013, from 7pm to 8.30pm Tuesday 4th June, from 7pm to 8.30pm Tuesday 2nd, 16th, and 30th July, from 7pm to 8.30pm Tuesday 27th August 2013, from 7pm to 8.30pm CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry FREE Science Fiction and Fantasy writer, pianist in the band Veteran Scottish author and scriptwriter Lorn Macintyre Acclaimed novelist, playwright and Glenfiddich Spirit of An evening of recitals of poetry and short stories from ‘Murnie’, and half of Scottish cabaret duo ‘Markee de talks about his career as a contributor to the Glasgow Scotland Writer of the Year, Alan Bissett hosts a three- members of all the diverse ethnic communities of Saw and Bert Finkle’, Neil will talk about the relationship Herald, Scotsman, the BBC and his acclaimed Hebridean part course over three fortnightly evenings in July. Scotland. Glasgow is a city of many cultures and between fiction and music. novels and short stories. Scotland a nation of many strands of race and religion. In Process Masterclass: Janet Paisley “Unstated” Independence Debate In Process Masterclass: William Letford In Process Masterclass: Aonghas Macneacail Tuesday 23rd July, from 7pm to 8.30pm Wednesday 19th June, from 7pm to 8.30pm Tuesday 3rd September, from 7pm to 8.30pm Tuesday 23rd April 2013, from 7pm to 8.30pm Glasgow Women’s Library, Entry £3 / FREE concessions CCA Theatre, Glasgow, Entry FREE CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions Janet Paisley will address the Glasgow Women’s Library Jenni Calder, Magi Gibson and Ken MacLeod, 3 of the William Letford has earned a reputation as a rising star of Poetry has taken Gaelic legend Aonghas Macneacail at their brand new home in Bridgeton, introduced by authors who contributed to Unstated: Writers On Scottish poetry through memorable performances on the from Japan to the Arctic Circle, and his poems have current Reader in Residence, Magi Gibson. been translated into German, Italian, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Independence, debate the heated question of live circuit. A roofer by trade, with a unique perspective, French, Hebrew, Finnish and Serbo-Croat. Scotland’s 2014 referendum on independence. unpretentious humour and an eye for detail. In Process Masterclass: Magi Gibson Refugee Week with Sue Reid Sexton and Kusay Hussein Tuesday 6th August, from 7pm to 8.30pm In Process Masterclass: Louise Welsh ‘Writing and Song’: An Evening with Linda Jackson Thursday 20th June, from 7pm to 8.30pm CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions Tuesday 10th September, from 7pm to 8.30pm Tuesday 7th May 2013, from 7pm to 8.30pm Pulp Fiction Writers Centre, 41-43 Bread St, Edinburgh CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions Entry £6 / £3 concessions Acclaimed poet, author of Wild Women of a Certain Age and founder of the Wild Women Writing Workshops, Renowned Glasgow writer Louise Welsh is the author of Glaswegian singer/songwriter Linda Jackson discusses Sue Reid Sexton and Iraqi writer Kusay Hussein, who Magi talks about poetry and young adult writing, five novels:The Cutting Room (2002),Tamburlaine Must lyrics and music, cross-fertilisation, and maybe even fled to the UK in 2006, read from their collaborative creativity and finding your true voice. Die (2004), The Bullet Trick (2006), Naming the Bones some writing from the audience! writing, speaking movingly of the bizarreness of war for (2010) and The Girl on the Stairs (2012). those living through it in occupied territories and the ‘Writers in Scottish Literary Organisations’: Alistair International Event: Pedro Lenz and Donal McLaughlin universal suffering of displaced people. In Process Masterclass: Zoë Strachan Tuesday 13th August, from 7pm to 8.30pm Moffat Tuesday 17th September, from 7pm to 8.30pm Tuesday 21st May, from 7pm to 8.30pm In Process Masterclass: Alan Spence CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry FREE CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions Tuesday 25th June, from 7pm to 8.30pm The SWC’s renowned international events programme Listed as one of the top 20 novelists under 30 by The CCA Clubroom, Glasgow, Entry £6 / £3 concessions returns with award-winning Swiss writer Pedro Lenz Award winning non-fiction author, journalist, former Independent on Sunday in 2003, and as one of the new Award-winning poet and playwright, novelist and short- reading from his novel Naw Much of a Talker, published Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Director of generation of five young Scottish authors in 2011 by the story writer Alan Spence talks about his past and current by Freight Books and translated by Donal McLaughlin. Programmes at STV, Alistair Moffat talks about his work. Scottish Review of Books, Zoë will talk about her novels. projects, and about the writing craft. Magi Gibson Donal McLaughlin Pedro Lenz Chiew-Siah Tei William Letford Louise Welsh Zoë Strachan .