Valerie Laws,
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LIVE APPEARANCES:

CRIME NIGHTS/ CRIME FICTION EVENTS:

 Crime Night at Cullercoats Library.
 'Time for Crime' Fiction Workshop, 6-8, Lit&Phil Newcastle, part of Newcastle Noir.
Gateshead Central Library, with Ann Cleeves & other Murder Squaddies presenting our crime story anthology 'The Starlings'.
SHETLAND NOIR crime festival! I appeared on two panels at Mareel, Lerwick. 

 Dilston Physic Garden, Crime Fiction Workshop on Poisonous Plants
 'CRIME STORY' festival: featuring me & my publisher, at Northumbria University, in seminar with Bea Davenport and Jacky Collins.
 Dilston Physic Garden, reading and talking about my crime novel THE OPERATOR with visitors to the gorgeous garden. 


FOR MORE ABOUT MY EXTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE HISTORY, VISIT THE 'PERFORMANCE' PAGE HERE
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My Crime Fiction events touring with my 2nd novel
THE OPERATOR:
 SOUTH SHIELDS LIBRARY
 CHOPWELL LIBRARY 
 CRIMEFEST BRISTOL (panel): Narrative, Resolution & Crime Fiction                  
 GOSFORTH LIBRARY 
 CRIME FIC WORKSHOPS: HALTWHISTLE LIBRARY  
NEWCASTLE CENTRAL LIBRARY
 MARTON LIBRARY
 PELAW LIBRARY
 HALTWHISTLE LIBRARY
WHITLEY BAY LIBRARY
ALBION BEATNIK BOOKSHOP, OXFORD, CRIME & AFTERNOON TEA 
 ICELAND NOIR (panel) Crime Festival, Iceland.






POETRY READINGS/PERFORMANCES:
 SciPo, St Hilda's College Oxford, Science and Poetry day event including symposium and performance, along with Mario Petrucci, Sarah Watkinson and mc Jenny Lewis. Details here
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'Celebrating Age', part of a major funded project in rural Yorkshire run by Yorkshire Rural Arts, working with older people.
StAnza Poetry Festival, St Andrews, Scotland
with Aase Berg . 
BUZZWORDS, Cheltenham.
Shakespeare & Poetry exhibition of my work at Newcastle Central Library inc
a Shakespeare-inspired poetry Workshop.  
 'FOURTH FRIDAY' at Poetry Cafe, London.
Ledbury Poetry Festival, 'Slicing the Brain' poetry of neuroscience and pathology, with Prof Anya Hurlbert. 

 Dilston Physic Garden, 'haiku in the garden': writing and sharing haiku with visitors.
Poetry & Plants, (Workshop), Dilston Physic Garden
Writers' Cafe Speedy Mic, Newcastle
 'Double Bill' anthology, Lit&Phil, Newcastle
Headlining at Poetry Jam, Durham
Headlining at Newcastle Literary Salon, Newcastle.

ALSO:
 FIRST LAUNCH OF FACEBOOK OF THE DEAD, NEWCASTLE at MSA Bar
BAILIFFGATE, ALNWICK
SIMONE'S SUNDAY SALON, DURHAM
MORPETH LIBRARY
 Pop Recs, Sunderland
 Black Light Engine Room, Middlesbrough
 HIPPOCRATES AWARD SEMINAR, LONDON
 'QUIET COMPERE' TOUR, SEVEN ARTS
 POETRY & PLANTS (WORKSHOP) + afternoon tea, DILSTON PHYSIC GARDEN
ARUK Dementia Conference, Newcastle
'DOUBLE BILL' TOUR, with Red Squirrel Press poets, GARRIGILL, ALSTON MOOR, CUMBRIA, ALSO GLASGOW






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