Calling sci-fi and fantasy buffs: our Bristol Litfest moment


A round-up of our summer adventures – and it’s only July! Heather Child: ‘Uplit’ at Edgelit As well as an appearance at the Dark Societies dystopian book club in London, Heather was in Derby last week running a workshop and speaking on a panel at the popular sci-fi, fantasy and horror event EdgeLit 2018. …
Really looking forward to Saturday 5th September when we’re off to Corsham Creative Market where Jo Lambert will be joining the usual gang to run a book stall with great variety and lots of bargains at Springfield Community Campus. For those who don’t know Corsham, the old town centre is a real gem (and recently masqueraded as…
A biopic is a film which aims to tell a life story, usually of a historical figure and/or or celebrity in one sphere or another. The most popular examples include Ghandi, Lawrence of Arabia, Malcolm X and Schindler’s List, with The Theory of Everything, Raging Bull and Amadeus also featuring. You could claim they are filmed biographies, or set out to be.
Two book launches in the last month! It’s been a bumper summer for Writers Unchained members. A Forbidden Love Kerry Postle launched her fabulous second book A Forbidden Love at Max Minerva’s Marvellous Books in Bristol this July. The audience were fascinated to hear about where Kerry’s research had taken her – into the intricacies…
A little about my third book, which takes me in a new direction, and into some potentially treacherous waters… In this novel, a bunch of private Caribbean islands band together to create a brand new nation, the ‘People’s Republic of Love’, governed by the citizen with the most followers on social media.
While we rub our hands and gloat over a very tasty bag of submissions for our next event, here’s Gail’s snapshot of Stokes Croft Writers’ carefully managed assault on the genteel cobbles of Bath. It was a steamy hot summer night on the not-so-mean streets of Bath, when a motley crew of Bristol writers came…