The Cheltenham Literature Festival is 70 this year – the longest running Literature Festival in the world, and the first ever. Set up by G.A.M. Wilkinson, the council’s Spa and Entertainments manager, this small but perfectly formed town in the heart of the rolling Cotswold countryside gave birth to an …
Introduced and moderated by Fanny Howe, this event will feature a reading and oral history conversation with the pioneering poet Bernadette Mayer (author of Midwinter Day and Poetry State Forest). A book-signing will follow the event. Learn more here.
This is the Toronto launch of the reissue of Heroine, Gail Scott's classic feminist novel, resonating in a world of increasing radicalization, featuring a new foreword by Eileen Myles. Gail will be joined by Zoe Whittall and Liz Howard who will be reading their favourite sections of Heroine. Learn more …