Post by aspects on Sept 5, 2008 10:02:18 GMT 1
Here are the details and running times for the Aspects Book Fair, which takes place in the Long Gallery, North Down Museum
Saturday 27 September 11am – 5pm.This event /all the readings and discussions are FREE!
Aspects is pleased to present the one and only book fair in Northern Ireland, featuring established and emerging publishing houses from the North and South of Ireland including, Guildhall Press, Salmon Poetry, Doire Press, Hag’s Head Press, Summer Palace Press, Abbey Press, Blackstaff Press, The FeldStein Agency, Stinging Fly Press, Poetry Ireland, Lagan Press and New Island.
RUNNING TIMES FOR THE READINGS AND TALKS-
Emer Martin - 12.30pm
Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the U.S. Her first novel Breakfast in Babylon won Book of the Year at Listowel Writers' Week. Her new book is Baby Zero, was published to critical acclaim in 2007. She will read from Let's Be Alone Together which is an anthology of new short stories edited by Declan Meade featuring with twenty new stories by twenty writers. She will also be available to answer your questions.
Mike Faulkner - 1.30pm
In 2002, following the collapse of his business and the loss of a much-loved family home, Michael Faulkner and his artist wife Lynn McGregor left Scotland for a cabin on Islandmore, an uninhabited island on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. His first Novel, “The Blue Cabin” (Blackstaff Press) chronicles this transition-with no mains electricity, an erratic water supply and access to the mainland only by boat, life in "The Blue Cabin" is one part catastrophe - storms, broken generators, escaping dinghies - to three parts idyll. Mike will be reading from the book, discussing how he became an author, and giving advice to those seeking to have works published.
Rosemary Jenkinson - 2.30pm
Rosemary Jenkinson is from Belfast. A collection of her short stories,Contemporary Problems Nos. 53 & 54 was published by Lagan Press. Her plays include The Bonefire, winner of the Stewart Parker BBC Radio Award 2007, which was produced by Rough Magic and The Winners by Ransom Productions. Rosemary will read from Let's Be Alone Together which is an anthology of new short stories edited by Declan Meade featuring with twenty new stories by twenty writers, the second anthology of short stories from The Stinging Fly Press, the follow-up to These Are Our Lives (2006). She will also be available to answer your questions.
Susan Feldstein - 3.00pm
Susan Feldstein (née Dalzell) has worked in book publishing for over seventeen years. She was most recently Commissioning Editor for Northern Ireland (2003-2006) for Dublin publishers Gill & Macmillan.
Prior to this, Susan worked for Belfast publisher Blackstaff Press. Susan was promoted to Commissioning Editor at Blackstaff in 1999, and remained there for the next three years, working with local authors such as Michael Longley, Sean MacMahon, David McKittrick, Bernard MacLaverty and Jonathan Bardon.
Lesley Richardson - 3.30pm
Lesley Richardson was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland in 1962. After working for many years in PR and advertising, she set up as a freelance copywriter and journalist. Lesley started writing fiction soon after her 40th birthday, and has had a number of magazine articles, short stories and non-fiction pieces published. Biddy Weirdo is her first novel. She will be reading from her first book and will discuss how she took her first steps into writing.
Thanks!
www.aspectsfestival.co.uk
Saturday 27 September 11am – 5pm.This event /all the readings and discussions are FREE!
Aspects is pleased to present the one and only book fair in Northern Ireland, featuring established and emerging publishing houses from the North and South of Ireland including, Guildhall Press, Salmon Poetry, Doire Press, Hag’s Head Press, Summer Palace Press, Abbey Press, Blackstaff Press, The FeldStein Agency, Stinging Fly Press, Poetry Ireland, Lagan Press and New Island.
RUNNING TIMES FOR THE READINGS AND TALKS-
Emer Martin - 12.30pm
Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the U.S. Her first novel Breakfast in Babylon won Book of the Year at Listowel Writers' Week. Her new book is Baby Zero, was published to critical acclaim in 2007. She will read from Let's Be Alone Together which is an anthology of new short stories edited by Declan Meade featuring with twenty new stories by twenty writers. She will also be available to answer your questions.
Mike Faulkner - 1.30pm
In 2002, following the collapse of his business and the loss of a much-loved family home, Michael Faulkner and his artist wife Lynn McGregor left Scotland for a cabin on Islandmore, an uninhabited island on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. His first Novel, “The Blue Cabin” (Blackstaff Press) chronicles this transition-with no mains electricity, an erratic water supply and access to the mainland only by boat, life in "The Blue Cabin" is one part catastrophe - storms, broken generators, escaping dinghies - to three parts idyll. Mike will be reading from the book, discussing how he became an author, and giving advice to those seeking to have works published.
Rosemary Jenkinson - 2.30pm
Rosemary Jenkinson is from Belfast. A collection of her short stories,Contemporary Problems Nos. 53 & 54 was published by Lagan Press. Her plays include The Bonefire, winner of the Stewart Parker BBC Radio Award 2007, which was produced by Rough Magic and The Winners by Ransom Productions. Rosemary will read from Let's Be Alone Together which is an anthology of new short stories edited by Declan Meade featuring with twenty new stories by twenty writers, the second anthology of short stories from The Stinging Fly Press, the follow-up to These Are Our Lives (2006). She will also be available to answer your questions.
Susan Feldstein - 3.00pm
Susan Feldstein (née Dalzell) has worked in book publishing for over seventeen years. She was most recently Commissioning Editor for Northern Ireland (2003-2006) for Dublin publishers Gill & Macmillan.
Prior to this, Susan worked for Belfast publisher Blackstaff Press. Susan was promoted to Commissioning Editor at Blackstaff in 1999, and remained there for the next three years, working with local authors such as Michael Longley, Sean MacMahon, David McKittrick, Bernard MacLaverty and Jonathan Bardon.
Lesley Richardson - 3.30pm
Lesley Richardson was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland in 1962. After working for many years in PR and advertising, she set up as a freelance copywriter and journalist. Lesley started writing fiction soon after her 40th birthday, and has had a number of magazine articles, short stories and non-fiction pieces published. Biddy Weirdo is her first novel. She will be reading from her first book and will discuss how she took her first steps into writing.
Thanks!
www.aspectsfestival.co.uk