LIVE APPEARANCES:
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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 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 '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 |
