22 June 2010
2010 Literary Festival - Schedule for Day 2 (24/06/10)
Photo opportunities will be available at all listed events on Thursday, June 24th
The second day of the 2010 Dundee Literary Festival will see a host of top names from the literary world, including Alan Warner, John Carey, Jackie Kay and Christopher Reid, read from their work and share their experiences.
Leading figures from the publishing industry will also be passing on tips to aspiring writers while a series of events for children, workshops, book signings, and talks will also be taking place.
The five-day celebration of literature is now in its fourth year. In that time, the University of Dundee-organised Festival has established itself as one of the highlights of the city’s cultural calendar.
The full schedule for Thursday, June 24th is:
- Children - Alison Murray, author of Apple Pie ABC, a brand new book with gorgeous characters that helps parents teach the alphabet, will be touring various venues around Dundee and taking her charming illustrations to children in the city.
- Livewire (9am, entry free) - Featuring students and graduates from the innovative and exciting Creative Writing course at the University of Dundee. Eight talented and hotly tipped writers will be reading from their work and discussing what they have learned on their course.
- Jackie Kay (10am, £3/£2 for concessions) - One of Scotland's most exciting writers will be discussing her life and work, including the autobiographical journey she took whilst writing Red Dust Road. Kay's life story is as fascinating and complex as her literary work, which are often concerned with the nature of identity.
- An Orcadian Summer (11am, £3/£2 for concessions) - Three authors - Duncan McLean, John Aberdein, and Alison Flett - who now live on Orkney will be reading from their work and discussing their common location and how it helps to shape their writing.
- Dundee Poets - Poem and a Piece (12.30pm, £3/£2 concessions) - The Univeristy of Dundee's Royal Literary Fellows - Tracy Herd and Gordon Meade - are both poets with a story to tell. A free sandwich and cup of tea or coffee is included in the ticket price.
- Alan Warner (1.30pm, £3/£2 concession) - One of the most innovative Scottish writers of his generation will be reading from his striking new novel, The Stars in the Bright Sky. A sequel to The Sopranos, this riotous and subtly satirical comedy is characteristically sensitive to the rhythms of everyday speech and crammed with the paraphanelia of contemporary consumer living.
- Christopher Reid (3pm, £3/£2 concession) - The first poet to win the main Costa Book Prize in a decade will be interviewed by Catherine Lockerbie, former Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival and an Honorary Graduate of the Univeristy of Dundee. He will also read from his Costa-winning book, A Scattering, the highly emotive and personal collection of poems that dealt with his wife's illness and subsequent death.
- John Carey (4.30pm, £3/£2 concession) - Kirsty Gunn, Professor of Creative Writing at the University, will interview Carey, whose controversial biography William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, has caused uproar in the literary world. An academic who writes shrewdly, wittily and economically on a wide range of subjects, Carey is known for his ability to delve into the lives of some of history's most revered writers.
- Publishing Panel (5.30pm, £5/£3 concession) - One of the annual highlights of the Festival. Aspiring writers will have the chance to hear from esteemed industry professionals how they can go about getting poems, short stories and novels in print. Old and new methods will be examined, and the Panel will answer questions from the audience.
All events take place at the University’s Dalhousie Building unless otherwise stated.
Tickets are selling well for all Festival events, and can be bought by calling 01382 384413,
emailing literarydundee@gmail.com, from the sales booth at the Overgate Centre, and from DCA.
More details about all the events taking place at the Festival can be found at
www.literarydundee.co.uk/festival.htm, where tickets can be bought online.
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University of Dundee
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