wordfringe
2009
1st–31st May 2009
Week 1
Thursday 30 April
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Sheena Blackhall: Makar of the North-East of Scotland
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Friday 1 May
7.30pm
Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen
Grampian Association of Storytellers with a special guest
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Saturday 2 May
2.30pm
Duff House, Banff
A celebration of the launch of Issue 8, with readings by the contributors
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Saturday 2 May
7pm
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh
Be inspired by the combination of traditional music and
contemporary poetry surrounded by spectacular lenses
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Sunday 3 May
2pm
Pennan Village Hall
Richard Ingham and Mary McCarthy
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Sunday 3 May
3.30pm
Pennan Village Hall
Douglas W. Gray, Catriona Yule and Haworth Hodgkinson
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Sunday 3 May
5pm
Pennan Village Hall
Brian Johnstone, Richard Ingham and Louise Major
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Sunday 3 May
7.30pm
Salmon Bothy, Portsoy
Olivia McMahon launches her new novel, joined by Christie VanLaningham and Bill Kirton
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Week 2
Monday 4 May
7pm
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Four heavyweight performance poets take it in turns to grapple the English language into submission
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Tuesday 5 May
6.30pm
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
No one dreams of civilisation in Paradise
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Wednesday 6 May
10am
Woodend Barn, Banchory
with Sheila Reid
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Wednesday 6 May
7.30pm
Rizza's Ice Cream Factory, Huntly
Huntly Writers: at home in Huntly for their latest event
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Thursday 7 May
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Poetry and other entertainments from the vivacious Elspeth Murray with special guest Eddie Gibbons
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Friday 8 May
7pm
Better Read Books, Ellon
Open mic without the mic
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Love as a Foreign Language
Olivia McMahon launches her new novel, joined by Christie VanLaningham and Bill
Kirton
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Sunday 3 May 2009
7.30pm – 8.30pm
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Salmon Bothy, Portsoy [Map]
Admission £4
to include refreshments and nibbles
No booking required
Olivia McMahon's novel Love as a Foreign Language is the story of a woman
teacher of English as a foreign language in an Aberdeen language school, teaching
mainly employees of the locally based oil company Termoil.
She is joined at her launch event by Christie VanLaningham, a fiction writer from
Oregon now based in Aberdeen, and Bill Kirton, well-known writer of crime novels.
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Olivia McMahon's novel Love as a Foreign Language is based (partly)
on her long and varied experience teaching English as a Foreign Language. A second
novel about a young hairdresser in Paris is based on no (hairdressing) experience
at all. Her collection of poems Domestic Verses published locally by Koo Press is all her own.
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Christie VanLaningham writes fiction inspired by failed places, heirlooms,
witchy women, abandoned children, lumberjacks, lovable demagogues, every kind of
fairy tale, and what it means to be home. Her short stories have appeared in several
North American literary journals, and she is currently working on a novel.
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Bill Kirton has lived in Aberdeen since 1968. He was a university lecturer
in French but took early retirement to write. He's written and performed revues
at the Edinburgh Festival, written, directed and acted in stage and radio plays
and presented programmes on Grampian Television.
His crime novels, Material Evidence, Rough Justice and, most recently,
The Darkness, are set in the fictional town of Cairnburgh near Aberdeen.
This summer, his historical novel, The Figurehead, set in Aberdeen in 1840,
will be published in paperback and as an ebook.
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