Dundee Literary Salons
Welcome to the next round of literary salons.
The salons run from 5.00-7.00pm and will take place at DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee.
They're completely free and tickets will now be available on the night itself on a first come, first served basis, so get there early.
2010
4th March
The How-To Team
Please ntoe the venue for this salon will be College Hall, University of Dundee
Literary agent Jenny Brown joins one of her authors, debut novelist Willie Robertson and his publisher Bob McDevitt of Hachette Scotland to describe how a manuscript makes the journey from the writers mind to the printed page.
25th March
Live Wire
Hear what our writing students are up to as they read from their work and talk about the writing programme at Dundee.
Literary Salons have become an important part of our developing creative life here at Dundee - and are a great way to meet leading writers, publishers and agents from all over the UK, ask them questions about their work and writing practice and get top tips and advice about how to develop your own literary career.
Past guests have included both new and established writers - from first time Faber novelist Ruth Thomas to multi-prize-winning Douglas Dunn, Meaghan Delahunt and Michael Schmidt - as well as dbc pierre’s agent Clare Conville, Literary Director of The Scottish Arts Council Gavvin Wallace and Canongate Editor Francis Bickmore, and others.
Come along and be inspired!
The Literary Salons from the last session have been recorded - watch them here:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/videos/2008/literarysalons.htm.
