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Tue, 08 Jun 2004 Who's that funny man on the stage? And what's he doing to the monkey? This Thursday, Writers' Bloc, the spoken word group I'm part of, is doing a reading in Leith, Edinburgh. I will be taking part. If you're in the area, consider this an invitation! As the press release says ... WHAT:"Writers' Bloc Versus the Yellow Café"-- live readings of original fiction and poetry at the Leith Festival WHO: Writers' Bloc and the Yellow Café spoken-word performance groups WHERE: Leith Docker's Club, 17 Academy Street, Leith WHEN: 8.00 p.m., Thursday 10 June 2004 HOW MUCH: £5.00 £3.00 concessions) WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE: Writers' Bloc have a website For one night only -- and especially for the 2004 Leith Festival -- two of Edinburgh's finest spoken-word performance groups are going head to head. This is where poems with punch take on stories that sting in the literary heavyweight championship to end them all! The fabulous Writers' Bloc and the legendary Yellow Café are staging an evening of cutting-edge writing "from up the toon and doon the walk" with Gavin Inglis, Nickey Melville, Stefan Pearson, Rodney Relax, Andrew J. Wilson and others. Writers' Bloc is a mix of professional writers and new voices. Several members have published novels in Britain and the USA. Others have placed stories in magazines and anthologies as diverse as "Year's Best Horror Stories", "Scottish Book Collector", "Interzone", "Pinball Player", "West Coast Magazine", "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", "Instant", "Markings", "Grunt and Groan: The New Anthology of Sex At Work" and "The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases". The Yellow Café crew return after their barn-storming show at last year's Leith Festival, and will include Rodney Relax, R. Kowalsky, Shu Lorimer and Nickey Melville. Rodney Relax, "the first poet in space", has recently appeared at the Bongo Club and Silencio. Nickey Melville, who has played the Jack Kane Centre for the Edinburgh People's Festival, offers challenging performance poetry. Other writers appearing at this event include, among others: Charles Stross, author of "Singularity Sky" (already published in the US and coming out in Britain in August); Hannu Rajaniemi, the only Finnish member of Writers' Bloc; Gavin Inglis, winner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Instant Book Prize; and Andrew J. Wilson, Scotsman book reviewer and one of "the world's masters of horror". [Link] [Discuss writing] posted at: 16:21 | path: /misc | permanent link to this entry

specials: Is SF About to Go Blind? -- Popular Science article by Greg Mone Unwirer -- an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction Inside the MIT Media Lab -- what it's like to spend a a day wandering around the Media Lab "Nothing like this will be built again" -- inside a nuclear reactor complex Quick links: RSS Feed (Moved!) Who am I? Contact me Buy my books: (FAQ) Missile Gap Via Subterranean Press (US HC -- due Jan, 2007) The Jennifer Morgue Via Golden Gryphon (US HC -- due Nov, 2006) Glasshouse Via Amazon.com (US HC -- due June 30, 2006) The Clan Corporate Via Amazon.com (US HC -- out now) Accelerando Via Amazon.com (US HC) Via Amazon.com (US PB -- due June 27, 2006) Via Amazon.co.uk (UK HC) Via Amazon.co.uk (UK PB) Free download The Hidden Family Via Amazon.com (US HC) Via Amazon.com (US PB) The Family Trade Via Amazon.com (US HC) Via Amazon.com (US PB) Iron Sunrise Via Amazon.com (US HC) Via Amazon.com (US PB) Via Amazon.co.uk (UK HC) Via Amazon.co.uk (UK PB) The Atrocity Archives Via Amazon.com (Trade PB) Via Amazon.co.uk (Trade PB) Via Golden Gryphon (HC) Via Amazon.com (HC) Via Amazon.co.uk (HC) Singularity Sky Via Amazon.com (US HC) Via Amazon.com (US PB) Via Amazon.com (US ebook) Via Amazon.co.uk (UK HC) Via Amazon.co.uk (UK PB) Toast Via Amazon.com Via Amazon.co.uk Some webby stuff I'm reading: [ Engadget ] [ Gizmodo ] [ The Memory Hole ] [ Boing!Boing! ] [ Futurismic ] [ Walter Jon Williams ] [ Making Light (TNH) ] [ Crooked Timber ] [ Junius (Chris Bertram) ] [ Baghdad Burning (Riverbend) ] [ Bruce Sterling ] [ Ian McDonald ] [ Amygdala (Gary Farber) ] [ Cyborg Democracy ] [ Body and Soul (Jeanne d'Arc)  ] [ Atrios ] [ The Sideshow (Avedon Carol) ] [ This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow) ] [ Jesus's General ] [ Mick Farren ] [ Early days of a Better Nation (Ken MacLeod) ] [ Respectful of Otters (Rivka) ] [ Tangent Online ] [ Grouse Today ] [ Hacktivismo ] [ Terra Nova ] [ Whatever (John Scalzi) ] [ GNXP ] [ Justine Larbalestier ] [ Yankee Fog ] [ The Law west of Ealing Broadway ] [ Cough the Lot ] [ The Yorkshire Ranter ] [ Newshog ] [ Kung Fu Monkey ] [ S1ngularity ] [ Pagan Prattle ] [ Gwyneth Jones ] [ Calpundit ] [ Lenin's Tomb ] [ Progressive Gold ] [ Kathryn Cramer ] [ Halfway down the Danube ] [ Fistful of Euros ] [ Orcinus ] [ Shrillblog ] [ Steve Gilliard ] [ Frankenstein Journal (Chris Lawson) ] [ The Panda's Thumb ] [ Martin Wisse ] [ Kuro5hin ] [ Advogato ] [ Talking Points Memo ] [ The Register ] [ Cryptome ] [ Juan Cole: Informed comment ] [ Global Guerillas (John Robb) ] [ Shadow of the Hegemon (Demosthenes) ] [ Simon Bisson's Journal ] [ Max Sawicky's weblog ] [ Guy Kewney's mobile campaign ] [ Hitherby Dragons ] [ Counterspin Central ] [ MetaFilter ] [ NTKnow ] [ Encyclopaedia Astronautica ] [ Fafblog ] [ BBC News (Scotland) ] [ Pravda ] [ Meerkat open wire service ] [ Warren Ellis ] [ Brad DeLong ] [ Hullabaloo (Digby) ] [ Jeff Vail ] [ The Whiskey Bar (Billmon) ] [ Groupthink Central (Yuval Rubinstein) ] [ Unmedia (Aziz Poonawalla) ] [ Rebecca's Pocket (Rebecca Blood) ] Older stuff: June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 April 2002 March 2002 (I screwed the pooch in respect of the blosxom entry datestamps on March 28th, 2002, so everything before then shows up as being from the same time)

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