17 Mar 2010 at 7pm 


Robin Robertson, Norwich
Tickets: £6
Lecture Theatre 1, University of East Anglia, Norwich
01603 508050
http://www.uea.ac.uk/litfest
The Scottish poet will talk about and read from his latest collection, The Wrecking Light

17 Mar 2010 at 8pm 


Apples & Snakes, Devon
Tickets: Tickets: £8.50 / £5 concessions
The Gallery, Queens Theatre, Barnstaple 

Headlining tonight's event is HKB Finn. The spoken word artist and rapper will headline and perform "Country Boy", an autobiographical tale and unique one man show. It follows the story of a boy and his coming of age journey to the distant city

18 Mar 2010 at 745pm 


Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley
Tickets: £10
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London SE1
0844 847 9910
The novelist and composer will discuss their collaboration on the opera For You

19 Mar 2010 at 2 pm 


Meet Julia Donaldson
Tickets: £5
Burnley Youth Theatre,
Queen's Park Road,
Burnley,
Lancashire.
Meet Julia Donaldson
Friday 19 March, 2pm
This special event, which is being held in partnership with Burnley Youth Theatre, provides an introduction to our Kicking Leaves Children's Literature Festival which will be launched in Autumn 20

20 Mar 2010 at 11.00am – 5.00pm 


Jim Crace, Jackie Kay, Kate Clanchy, Graham Robb and Jon Ronson
Tickets: £18/15
The Gallery
Foyles
Charing Cross Road
Picador Day - Discussions/ Reading/ Q&A
Jim Crace, Jackie Kay, Kate Clanchy, Graham Robb and Jon Ronson appear in a full day of events and discussion workshops.
Tickets: £18/£15 concessions, from www.foyles.co.uk and Foyles Charing Cross Roa

20 Mar 2010  


Oxford Literary Festival
Tickets: Various
Christ Church, St Aldate's, Oxford
http://www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com
Hightlights of this year include Martin Amis, A S Byatt, Dave Eggers, Sebastian Faulks, Phillip Pullman

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25 Mar 2010 at 8pm 


Apples & Snakes Poetry, Plymouth
Tickets: £5
B-Bar, Barbican Theatre, Castle Street, Plymouth
Each month, feathery jazz-floozy Mama Tokus draws back the red drapes and shines the chandelier on an evening of lyrical revelry. Poets to make you laugh, poets to make you think, poets to make you hold your head in your hands and moan softly to your

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11 Apr 2010 at 11.20 am - 12.20 pm 


Festival of Writing Workshop on constructing the perfect mystery
Tickets: Festival tickets from £150 - £485
The Festival of Writing is being held at the University of York, from 9-11 April, 2010
How do you construct, maintain and develop mystery? That's a challenge for any crime writer, but it's also a challenge to anyone for whom revelation and mystery lies at the heart of their novel. If that applies to you, then this workshop is a