Programme 2009
FRIDAY 26th JUNE
Workshop - Writing fiction for magazines
9.00am-11.00am£5.00 (no concession)
Come and join a small class of writers and start to acquire the skills needed for writing fiction for magazines. Run by experts from People's Friend and My Weekly, you'll be guided through topics, style, language and submitting your work with a few insider tips on how to make your work fit to publish. Some of the most exciting writers in the country write for these publications - increase your chance of getting your name in print by attending this session.
Nethergate Writers
11.00am-12.00noonFREE
If Stones Could Speak - An anthology of new writing by Nethergate Writers
Our relationship to familiar places is often complex - making them rewarding territory for the writer. In this, their third collection, Nethergate Writers have taken as their inspiration locations throughout Angus, Dundee, Fife and Perthshire. The result is an anthology that encompasses everything from fantasy to crime, the supernatural, historical fiction, poetry, drama and humour. The familiar may never look quite the same again.
The Nethergate Writers, a local writing collective, will be reading short
extracts from their
work and will answer questions about how their books
take shape.
Lunch - Poem and a piece with Kenneth Steven
12.30pm-1.30pm£5 (includes a roll and coffee)
Enjoy your lunch while listening to wonderful words.
Kenneth Steven's work is inspired by the countryside he lives in, in the north of Scotland, as well as the people he meets. Kenneth will be reading from his recent publication; Making the Known World New, a collection of poetry and prose meditations.
The second reading will be from Kenneth's first collection of short stories. Four of these have been read on BBC Radio 4 and one of the others has been dramatised by Radio Scotland. Kenneth will also answer your questions about his work and sign copies of his books.
The New Crime Wave, Russel D McLean and GJ Moffat
2.00pm-3.00pm£3 / £2 concession
GJ Moffat and Russel D McLean are the new Scottish crime writers that everybody is reading - tough, gritty and thrilling.
GJ Moffat has been fascinated by courtroom melodramas starring the good and the bad guys since he was a boy. Although he became a lawyer, he always had the urge to write and his debut thriller brings these good guys and bad guys to life in glorious Technicolor.
Against the backdrop of Glasgow city and its surroundings, Daisychain is a taut thriller, a group of characters you would want to meet again and a gang of characters you most definitely wouldn’t.
Russel D McLean is a Dundee writer, whose debut book, The Good Son, has been both a huge success and won him rave reviews.
James Robertson, a local farmer, finds his estranged brother’s corpse hanging from a tree. The police claim suicide. But Dundonian private investigator J. McNee is about to uncover the disturbing truth behind the death. With a pair of vicious London hard men loose in the Scottish city, it’s only a matter of time before people start dying.
Russel McLean writes for Crime Spree Magazine, The Big Thrill (the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers Association), At Central Booking and Crime Scene Scotland. His short fiction has been published in crime fiction magazines worldwide.
The Publishing Panel
3.30pm-5.00pm£5 / £3 concession
This is a unique opportunity to hear seven of the most important people in publishing discuss the various ways that writers have of getting their book published. The panel will be chaired by David Graham, Managing Director of Granta, and will spill the secrets of the world of books before taking questions from the audience which can be about your own work. A wonderful opportunity to take one step closer to getting your work published.
