Voce Books & Influx Press are thrilled to host this special day-long event celebrating the life & work of one of Birmingham’s most daring & distinct writers:
Joel Lane.
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/voce-books-58878000033
Please join us for a LIVE event at the Bush Hill Park pub, Enfield, North London celebrating the publication of In the Shadow of the Phosphorous Dawn by Rob True.
Thursday 22 July, 7pm.
FREE ENTRY
Next to Bush Hill Park overground
Join Influx Press at Grow Tottenham for an outdoor event celebrating our 2021 list and the return to live literature!
Novelist, essayist and critic Adam Scovell is in conversation at Stanfords Bristol on the 3rd March at the bookshop to discuss his forthcoming novel How Pale The Winter Has Made Us . £4.
Featuring Annabel Banks (Exercises in Control) alongside West Camel, Mark Hill, Rosanna Amaka, Leo Unadike, Desmond Coy, Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Simon Rumley.
Three Influx writers discuss their new work and how they each take a unique approach to writing women’s lives. Part of the Faversham Literary Festival.
£3. TICKETS HERE
Gareth E. Rees explores how the UK’s retail chain-store car park has as much mystery, magic and terror as any mountain, meadow or wood. Host Gary Budden. Part of the Faversham Literary Festival.
£3. BUY TICKETS HERE
Hear from one of the rising stars of contemporary fiction Adam Scovell as he discusses his fragile and fragmentary second novel How Pale The Winter Has Made Us with Booker-shortlisted author and Foyles favourite, Deborah Levy.
Tickets: £13 Book & Ticket / £8 Standard / £5 Foyalty Members, Students & the Unwaged
Venue: The Auditorium - Level 6, Foyles 107 Charing Cross Road*.
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Join David Keenan and Wayne Holloway (Bindlestiff) in conversation to celebrate the paperback release of For The Good Times!
Reweirding: Car Park Life
22nd January 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Gareth E. Rees believes that the retail car park has as much mystery, magic and terror as any mountain, meadow or wood. He set out to prove it by walking the car parks of Britain, journeying across the country from Plymouth to Edinburgh, much to the horror of his family, friends – and, most of all – himself. He finds Sir Francis Drake outside B&Q, standing stones in a retail park, and a dead body beside Sainsbury’s.
This session of RIBA Book Club will explore the meeting point between fiction and architecture. It features RIBAJ Editor Hugh Pearman in conversation with novelists Shiromi Pinto and Will Wiles, who both seek inspiration from architecture and architectural culture.
Shiromi Pinto’s latest book Plastic Emotions is inspired by the life of Sri Lankan modernist architect Minnette de Silva and her affair with Le Corbusier.
Will Wiles is an architecture and design writer, and a RIBAJ columnist. He is the author of three acclaimed novels, Care of Wooden Floors, The Way Inn and Plume, that all draw on acute architectural and wry personal observation.
Join writers Paul Scraton and Marcel Krueger at Roe River Books, Dundalk, to discuss Paul's Berlin novel BUILT ON SAND and the literature of the city that inspired it, with readings and Q&A.
Paul Scraton returns to No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast, to discuss his his book, Built on Sand, in conversation with Marcel Krueger.
Berlin: long-celebrated as a city of artists and outcasts, but also a city of teachers and construction workers. A place of tourists and refugees, and the memories of those exiled and expelled. A city named after marshland; if you dig a hole, you’ll soon hit sand.
FREE ENTRY but book a ticket here.
Gareth E. Rees believes that the retail car park has as much mystery, magic and terror as any mountain, meadow or wood. He’s out to prove it by walking the car parks of Britain, journeying across the country from Plymouth to Edinburgh, much to the horror of his family, friends – and, most of all – himself.
Please join us for the launch of CAR PARK LIFE, the new book by Gareth E. Rees in conversation with editor Gary Budden.
The regular Waterstones Gower Street Short Story Salon is chaired by Mslexia columnist and host of What Page Are You On? podcast Alice Slater. Featuring both well-established authors and exciting newcomers, the salon celebrates the form with readings, conversation and wine.
For our Autumn salon, Alice will be speaking to two authors about their second collection of stories. Linda Mannheim’s collection This Way to Departures (Influx Press) is a deeply affecting portrait of American society and the constant search for a place to call 'home', focusing on young women and the struggles of female adulthood.
Irenosen Okojie’s collection Nudibranch (Dialogue Books) was included in The Guardian's books for 2019 and in African Book Addict's 2019 Books To Anticipate. Offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality: as a love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on an island inhabited by eunuchs; a girl from Martinique moonlights as a Grace Jones impersonator; and a dimension-hopping monks sworn to silence must face a bloody reckoning.
Tickets are £10 / £8 Students and Plus cardholders, and all tickets include a drink and all booking fees
Novelist and short story writer LINDA MANNHEIM will be reading at Blackwell’s Manchester where she'll be talking to Kate Feld (The Real Story) about her new collection THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES – 12 beautiful and brilliant stories about women and migrants from across the USA.
Join us for the Hastings launch of CAR PARK LIFE, the new book by Gareth E. Rees with a live performance of his Car Park Life jazz odyssey with Simon&thePope, plus great tequila and cocktails. At this special launch event in his hometown, hear Gareth read an extract of his book then perform his car park musical collaboration with Simon&thePope, who will also play a set of propulsive punk funk drum & bass. There will be specially invited DJs and plenty of quality beverages.
Doors: 5pm
Event: 7:30-9pm
DJs til late.
Dostoyevsky Wannabe and the Contemporary Small Press project host an indie book fair at University of Westminster on 19th October 2019.
Following on from a trio of successful book fairs arranged in Manchester, October brings Dostoyevsky Wannabe's brand of Indie Book Fair to London in association with The Contemporary Small Press project based at the @University of Westminster. The fair will feature a range of indie presses. Already confirmed are: Book Works, And Other Stories, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Les Fugitives, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Boiler House Press, Green Bottle Press, Silver Press, PSSSS, Prototype Publishing / Test Centre, Eighty Seven, Morbid Books, Ink Sweat & Tears, deathofworkers, Influx Press and Open Pen with a few more to follow.
The book fair is free admission but if you plan to come along then please signal your interest on the Facebook event and for various reasons too boring to go into, it would also be very helpful to us if you would sign up to the Eventbrite event.
How do small presses make waves among blockbusters, big marketing budgets and conglomerates? Is it possible to manage financially as an individual whilst freelancing or starting a publisher?
Carolina Orloff (Charco Press) and Jordan Taylor-Jones (Dead Ink & Influx) discuss how they make publishing - and living! - work in this frank and friendly roundtable event. From what a typical day looks like to where publishing is headed.
Come join us to celebrate the launch of THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, a new collection of stories by Linda Mannheim at The.Word.Berlin
Pleasure join us at Burley Fisher for the launch of THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, a new collection of stories by Linda Mannheim. We are delighted to announce that Linda will be in conversation with Stuart Evers, author of YOUR FATHER SENDS HIS LOVE on the night.
Manchester Indie Book Fair returns with a range of indie presses and zines - come browse, buy, booze and boogie to music from Invisible DJs.
Film presentation by Adam Scovell, at Goldsmiths, University of London
Join two writers with captivating but bleak visions of the future. In BINDLESTIFF, author and director Wayne Holloway weaves prose and screenplay to craft a dystopian satire on Hollywood, race and class divisions in a post-Trump era. Stornoway writer Malcolm Mackay's A LINE OF FORGOTTEN BLOOD is a gumshoe caper set in an independent, and corrupt, Scotland. Are their tales really as far-fetched as they initially seem?
Each month Spike Island, Bristol, invites a debut novelist to read from and talk about their work in an informal setting. Prior knowledge of the text is not essential. Topics of discussion include theme, structure, inspiration and the craft of writing. These sessions are a great way to discover new writing talent and great books.
£5, £3 concessions
Shiromi Pinto (Plastic Emotions) in conversation with Owen Hatherley, whose most recent book is The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space, and Olivia Sudjic, the author of Exposure.
To celebrate the Tate (Modern and Liverpool) choosing Plastic Emotions as their Book of the Month for July, Shiromi will be in Liverpool talking about her novel with Michelle Houlston, a writer and co-founder of Liverpool based arts project, Grrrl Power Liverpool (GPL).
Should be a fascinating event, focusing on feminism, pioneering women in history and of course, Minnette de Silva.
Join Niven Govinden, Wayne Holloway and Juliet Jacques for an evening celebrating literature that celebrates political activism, subversion and marginalised communities.
Join Influx Press in celebrating the release of Shiromi Pinto's masterful novel Plastic Emotions at the AA Bookshop in Bloomsbury. Shiromi will be joined by writer Gillian Darley, who knew de Silva, to discuss the book and her life. Drinks and books signings will follow.
Where we come from, where we live and who we love: there’s no escaping the importance of place and identity in the 21st century. It matters how we talk about them and how we feel about them and there’s no one better placed to explore such questions than writers. This panel will look into what it means to belong, what it means to be a citizen of the world and the fascination of location.
Featuring Paul Scraton (Built on Sand), Deirdre Shanahan (Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind) and Gonzalo C. Garcia (We Are the End).
