Calendar: Authors wanted

'Chapter and Verse' Literature Festival, Shropshire

7-13 June 2010

Following on from a successful festival in 2009, Shropshire Libraries are currently organising the second 'Chapter and Verse' literature festival, to take place in June 2010. We are looking for authors to take part in reader events at a variety of venues. Average audience size expected to be 30+, but larger venues are also being arranged for 100+.

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Black Country Big Book Fortnight

Big Book Fortnight aims to raise the profile of libraries, books, reading and storytelling, and to promote reading as an experience, by presenting a Book Festival through partnership between the four Black Country library authorities (Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton and Walsall). We are currently planning the event for 2010 and are looking for authors who are promoting their books during this period.

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Author and poet wanted - Knaresborough

Knaresborough Library and Customer Service Centre is looking for an author and a poet to take part in feva 2010. feva is Knaresborough's annual festival of entertainment and visual arts and will be celebrating its 10th year in 2010. See www.feva.info for more information about the festival. The library hosts events with a maximum capacity of 50 people and feva events at the library are always popular and oversubscribed. We have had very positive feedback from authors who have participated in previous years.

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Reading Festival of Crime Writing

17, 18, 19 September 2010 (Deadline for programme 1 February 2010)

Over 2,000 crime fans attended the 2009 festival at Reading's magnificent Grade II listed Town Hall and saw Colin Dexter, Mark Billingham, Mo Hayder, Peter Robinson and many more. Our third year promises to be even bigger. Why not be part of it? We are currently looking for authors with average audiences of 80+.

For more information www.readingfestivalofcrimewriting.org.uk

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Chichester Festivities

25th June - 9th July 2010 (Deadline for programme = end of December 2009)

Chichester Library is looking for enthusiastic authors to take part in the 2010 Chichester Festivities. The Festivities are are a long established and successful annual cultural event. The Library plays host to authors looking for audiences of up to 70 people, although we are also well suited for smaller audiences or literary workshops.

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Maghull Library opening

Jan/Feb 2010

Sefton Libraries are looking for a well-known author linked to sport/exercise/fitness to help launch their new library which is linked to a Leisure Centre.

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Sleuths! Torbay's Festival of Crime Writing

21 - 24 April 2010

Following the success of last year's inaugural festival, Sleuths! returns with a variety of crime writer talks, panel discussions, workshops and other events. Interested publishers / authors should contact Sleuths via the details below.

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Science & Engineering Week - Derby

Derby City Libraries are seeking science/forensics and crime novel writers for a series of talks linked to Science & Engineering week.

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Norfolk Great Big Read

Norfolk Libraries would like to hear of any authors who would be interested in visiting to celebrate great reads in February 2010.

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Author Wanted

September onwards

We are looking for an author who writes books around the paranormal/psychic theme that will come to Margate Gateway. We have had a successful event with Mia Dolan earlier on in the year and would like to follow that up with another author event.

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Tall Ships Literary Programme

August 2010

We are putting together a programme of events in the build up to the Tall Ships Race, hitting hartlepool in Aug 2010. We a looking for authors writing on a seafaring theme to do talks and reading group events.....

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Autumn events in Hammersmith & Fulham

21st Sept to end of October

Authors wanted!
If you are promoting a book in the autumn, I would love to hear from you.
Locations are Hammersmith Library and Fulham Library and also the new Shepherds Bush Library in the Westfields shopping centre. For the latter, I am looking to have some of the events confirmed by early July, for external publicity.

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Ian Mortimer on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

Sept 2009 - Feb 2010

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England is an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a 'completely different world': England in the Middle Ages.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224079948

Ian is available for library events and talks to reading groups.

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Havering Book Festival

12th Oct - 24th Oct

Havering, East London, are hosting a Book Festival 12th Oct - 24th Oct. We are looking to put on a number of events for all ages. We have recently hosted a very successful event with Jo Brand and Liza Tarbuck, pulling in an audience of 300. If you want to follow in Jo Brand's footsteps please contact us - we will amke you very welcome!!

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