Huddersfield Literary Festival Cream Tea with Alexander McCall-Smith and more

With details of an open mic poetry night, literary afternoon tea and the cream tea event:

The Book Corner Halifax Presents A Cream Tea with Alexander McCall Smith Celebrating 20 years of the No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency  with HLF Director Michelle Hodgson   Join Alexander McCall Smith for an afternoon of tea and a cream scone as he celebrates 20 years of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency with Michelle Hodgson, Director of Huddersfield Literature Festival. Together they will discuss some of Alexander's new books including the stand alone novel The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse, his poetry anthology, A Gathering, and the latest in the No. 1 Ladies' and Isabel Dalhousie series. They'll also look back at how the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series grew from an initial print run of 1,000 copies to selling over 20 million copies worldwide. This will be followed by a book signing. Tickets and info online at The Book Corner or in store: 01422 414443 Authors and afternoon tea Have you booked for our  Literary Afternoon Tea?   Sunday 11 November 2018, 3pm-5pm Huddersfield Golf Club, £15 / £12 (includes afternoon tea) With Tim Dowling and Vaseem Khan Book your tickets here Note: this event was rescheduled from March due to snow. All tickets for the original date remain valid. Open Mic Poetry Night Poet / Spoken Word artist call out - DEADLINE Monday 24 September. Part of The Othello Project Saturday 13th October. 7.30 – 9.30PM Laurence Batley Theatre. The LBT is producing an event to coincide with English Touring Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of Othello. The Othello Project event will include outdoor musical performance, scratch performance showcases, a poetry evening and South Asian street food, along with the two main house productions of Othello that day. A number of open mic slots are available for the poetry evening which will be hosted by Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi, the Manchester based Slate enabler. As well as a performance slot, we can offer up to £10 to cover travel expenses for each poet. To apply for a slot we need to know from poets - Name you use for performing Contact e-mail Language the poems are written / performed in Where you are based A sample of a poem or links to any performances Any specific content or trigger warnings within your poetry Send the above information to katherine@thelbt.org.uk by 12pm on Monday 24th September. After this time we’ll be in touch to confirm who has a slot on the night. Performance slots are limited but we’ll be aiming to make sure the mix of poets is diverse and representative of different languages and cultural heritages.   That's all for now. Don't forget to Like us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter. Twitter Facebook Website Copyright © 2018 Huddersfield Literature Festival. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 39 Birklands Road, Huddersfield HD2 2PF Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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