Archive for May, 2010

You can WIN a pair of tickets to this event: Fifty words or less on a book/short story/poem/collection/show you’ve read/seen and loved by one of the day’s writers. Send it to sara[at]birminghambookfestival[dot]org …by 5pm Friday 30 April 2010, with your name and email address. Good luck!

The Birmingham Book Festival’s Spring Thing: A Festival In A Day

Saturday 29 May 2010

Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place, Birmingham B3 3HG

10.30am (for a 10.45 start) – 5.30pm.

Sponsored by Newman College

Booking is now open for this day long literature fest featuring Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, Stuart Maconie, Amanda Smyth, Samantha Harvey, Aifric Campbell, Jo Bell & Jenn Ashworth.

List of Events:

• National Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns to Birmingham for another much-anticipated reading.

• Novelist Helen Dunmore talks about her new novel Betrayal.

• Novelists Amanda Smyth (Black Rock), Aifric Campbell (The Semantics Of Murder, The Loss Adjustor) and Samantha Harvey (The Wilderness) talk about their writing experiences.

• Writer, Presenter and Broadcaster Stuart Maconie talks about his Adventures on the High Teas and that elusive ‘middle England’.

• Poet Jo Bell and Novelist Jenn Ashworth come together in Too Much Information, ‘wise wicked and witty words from two lively writers’.

Tickets are for the whole day and entitle you to a place at each event.

Day Tickets: £29, £25, £19 (Concessions £26, £22, £16)

To Book call 0121 303 2323 or visit this page.

Click here to download a PDF flyer.

More information about each of the writers and a timetable will be available on this site nearer the time.

If you have any questions about this event feel free to contact us via the form on this site or on 0121 246 2792.