The event will start at 2 pm and go on until 7 pm, so do pop in if you get the chance and hear some great local writers read and perform their work.
More details to follow!
When Louise Gethin isn’t writing or performing at The Thunderbolt, you might well find her on her allotment. I recently heard the poem by Seamus Heaney – Digging. I fell in love with it on so many levels. Running through my veins is the blood of my Irish grandfather, who was a keen gardener. I am a…
Ali Bacon reviews a new short story collection I sometimes think short story collections are like boxes of chocolates. I always enjoy the first couple but I’m quickly sated and often end up by not getting to the end (well okay that rarely happens with chocolates, but you get the picture!) I think it’s particularly true…
Let us tell you a story Yes, as you may have heard our new and improved Sunday Night Stories get-together WILL take place on Nov 1st from 6 – 8 pm when you can snuggle up in the bar at Southbank Club Bedminster and let our members and guests make you shiver or smile with their spine-tingling…
Gail Swann writes: Finding myself in a period of writerly pause, or to put it more succinctly, ‘stymied by having too many beginnings’, I have been filling my head with the work of others. I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy a run of cracking good reads (thanks to Nina Milton for book reviews at http://kitchentablewriters.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-kitchen-table-reading-club.html), I’ve…
This week Ali Bacon reflects on what she heard (or hopes she heard) at an evening with Nathan Filer There’s nothing like a local hero to inspire us all to greater things, and since winning the Costa Prize with The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer is the man whose hand we have all wanted…
from Jenni O’Connor What an evening. What a week. What a year. As anyone who has been following this blog will know, the road to publication of Unchained was long and fairly tortuous, but – happily – culminated in a fantastic, packed-out launch event which made it all worthwhile. But behind the scenes, many of…