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Durham
Book Festival
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 Venues across Durham: Monday 6-Monday 20 October
After months of preparation, the North East’s biggest literary
festival is finally here. We are truly excited about this year’s
programme, which offers everything from poetry to politics. While some
events have sold out, there are tickets left for some of our headliners,
including Sheila Hancock, Jung Chang and Stuart Maconie. Other highlights
include John Carey, Terry Eagleton, David Kynaston, Rachel Cooke, Laura
Bates, Kirsty Wark, Natalie Haynes, Linda Grant and many, many more. We
do hope you will join us for what promises to be an entertaining and
thought-provoking fortnight. Book online at www.durhambookfestival.com. |
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The Worst Princess
Touring
County Durham and beyond: 29 September-31 October
Our brand new children’s show for the under 7s, The Worst Princess,
opens this September in Gateshead, before embarking on a month-long tour to
40 community venues in County Durham, South East Northumberland and beyond,
including dates in Sheffield and Manchester.
Adapted by Carina Rodney from the picture book written by Anna Kemp and
illustrated by Newcastle-based Sara Ogilvie, the production features
original live music, an amazing picture book-inspired set, and North East
actors alongside musicians from Sage Gateshead. The show promises to be a
wild and fun-filled adventure into a world of princesses, princes and
dragons, where characters defy expectations and learn to be themselves.
Some dates have already sold out! for details, see www.worstprincess.com. |
 Ilkley
Literature Festival
Venues across
Ilkley: Saturday 27 September-Sunday 19 October
There is an excellent programme at Ilkley Literature Festival, where
2014 Northern Writers’ Award winner Kim Moore is poet in residence. You’ll
also find Read Regional 2013 author Stephen May and Northern Writers’ Award
2013 winner Ian Duhig, alongside names including Margaret Atwood, Will
Self, John Hegley and Michael Rosen. For the full programme see www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk. |
Beverley Literature
Festival
Various
venues in Beverley: Wednesday 1-Saturday 11 October
There are several festival events which have caught our eye, not least Crime: Fiction v Reality,
which features crime writers Mari Hannah and Anya Lipska, crime reporter
turned novelist David Mark and former Detective Inspector Mo Dowdy (4
October, 4.30pm). The festival also offers creative writing masterclasses
with Helen Cross and Antony Dunn (4 & 5 October, 9.30am-4pm) and
romantic novelists Rhoda Baxter and Jane Lovering (4 October, 9.30am-12pm).
For full listings and booking information, see www.bevlit.org. |
 Manchester
Literature Festival
Venues across
Manchester: Monday 6-Saturday 25 October
There is much to enjoy at Manchester Literature Festival, including our
own theatre production for under 7s, The
Worst Princess, which will be showing on 16 October at Beswick
and City libraries. Elsewhere, you’ll find Sarah Waters, Simon Armitage,
Martin Amis, Nick Laird and Evie Wyld amongst the literary talent. For the
full programme see www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk. |
National Poetry Day
event: An evening with The Celia Bryce Band and The Marsden Writers
South Shields
Central Library: Thursday 2 October, 7pm
Read Regional 2014 author and singer-songwriter Celia Bryce brings
together the Marsden Writers and The Celia Bryce Band for an evening of
poetry and song to celebrate National Poetry Day. Tickets: £1. |
 Medley
of Poets for National Poetry Day
Lit &
Phil, Newcastle: Thursday 2 October, 7pm
Red Squirrel Press invites you to them in a National Poetry Day
celebration with five popular poets: Kathleen Kenny, Tom Kelly, Ellen
Phethean, Fiona Ritchie Walker and Colin Will. The event is free and
refreshments will be available. For further information contact Sheila
Wakefield at editor@redsquirrelpress.com. |
Caroline Bergvall:
Drift
Sage
Gateshead, Saturday 4 October, 8pm
Internationally renowned performer Caroline Bergvall teams up with
experimental Norwegian percussionist Ingar Zach and Swiss visual artist
Thomas Köppel for Drift,
a journey through time and space where languages mix and live percussion
meets live voice. Inspired by the Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer, Drift is
produced in the UK by Penned in the Margins with Sound and Music. Book
online at www.sagegateshead.com/event/caroline-bergvall/. |
Woodsmoke in the Air:
Poems for an Autumn Afternoon
Caldbeck
Methodist Church: Sunday 5 October, 1.30pm
Join Mary Robinson and Helen Fletcher at part of the Caldbeck Festival.
Mary Robinson's recent work includes a collection The Art of Gardening (Flambard,
2012) and a pamphlet Uist
Waulking Song (Westward Books, 2012). She is working on a
poetry/photography collaboration to be exhibited in March 2015. Helen
Fletcher's poetry has been published in several magazines. She is working
on her first collection. Tickets at the door: £5 (including light
refreshments). For further information email Mary Robinson at LMERobinson@gmail.com. |
 Tea
and Murder! An afternoon with Valerie Laws
Haltwhistle
Library: Friday 10 October, 3pm
Share afternoon tea with Valerie Laws as she talks about crime writing
and reads from her latest novel, The
Operator, follow-up to the award-winning The Rotting Spot. Tea
and homemade cakes will be served and Valerie’s books will be for sale.
Tickets: £2.50, book in advance at the library. Tel 01434 321863. |
Joint launch: Poetry by
Josephine Scott and Ian Davidson
Lit &
Phil: Monday 13 October, 7pm
Join Red Squirrel Press for a joint launch party, celebrating
Josephine Scott's second full collection, Rituals, and Ian Davidson's new
pamphlet, The Tyne
and Wear Poems. The event is free and refreshments will be
available. For further information please contact Sheila Wakefield at editor@redsquirrelpress.com. |
Collector of Tears
Customs
House, South Shields: Wednesday 15 & Thursday 16 October, 8pm
Newcastle-based playwright Sean Burn has a new play on tour this
autumn. Collector
of Tears follows a woman who – unable to age until she has
cried – instead collects tears from across 400 years of radical English
history. Following the dates in South Shields, the play will tour to
Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Central Library, on 17 October and Arts Centre
Washington on 30 October. For full listings see www.collectoroftears.net. |
 Mudfog
Press: 20 Years of Publishing
Baker Street
Kitchen Café, Albert Rd, Middlesbrough: Sunday 19 October, 4pm
Central Library, Middlesbrough: Saturday 25 October, 3pm
Join Mudfrog Press to celebrate 20 years as an independent publisher in
Tees Valley. As part of T-junction Poetry Festival the press will launch a
new pamphlet, by Adrienne Silcock, Taking
Responsibility for the Moon, and will be joined for readings
from Mel McElvoy, Mike Pratt, Natalie Scott and Khadim Hussein. Listen to
readings from a wide range of Mudfog-published writers across the decades,
plus opening of exhibition of book designs. Free entry. For further
information on both events contact Pauline Plummer at pauline.sonnet@blueyonder.co.uk. |
TakeOff Festival
Venues across
the North East: Monday 20-Sunday 26 October
TakeOff Festival makes a welcome return with a packed schedule of
theatre for children and young people. The festival is visiting more venues
than ever before right across the North East. You’ll find theatre, dance,
puppetry and play from leading companies producing for young audiences,
including Horse + Bamboo, Theatre Hullabaloo, Fevered Sleep and Young Vic.
For full listings, visit www.takeofffestival.org.uk. |
 Harrogate
History Festival
Old Swan
Hotel, Harrogate: Thursday 23-Sunday 26 October
Hosted in association with the Historical Writers Association, the 2014
Harrogate History Festival will feature some of the giants of the genre,
with special guests including Peter Snow, Bernard Cornwell, Elizabeth
Chadwick, James Naughtie interviewed by Robert Wilton, Charlotte Higgins
with Richard Hobbs, Alison Weir with Sarah Gristwood, Sarah Dunant in
conversation with SJ Parris and many more. See www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com. |
Diverse Voices launch
weekend
Seven
Stories: Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 October
Join Seven Stories for the launch of their Diverse Voices season with a
weekend of music, storytelling and art. The Diverse Voices exhibition
commends the 50 British children’s books published between 1950 and the
present day that best represent cultural diversity. The exhibition also
features work by our Cuckoo Young Writers, who worked with Degna Stone to
write poetry responding to themes explored on the list. Free event, centre
admission applies. See www.sevenstories.org.uk. |
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Deadline
for November’s Listening Post
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The next edition of The Listening Post, covering November’s
literature events, will go out in late October. If you have events that
you would like to submit for inclusion for this you will need to send
information by 20 October to olivia@newwritingnorth.com.
While
every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in
this newsletter is correct at the time of going to press, things do
change, frequently at the last minute and very often without our
knowledge.
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