Dates upcoming

[desperance]

Just a few announcements, folks:

The Write Fantastic (well, some of us) will be in Birmingham in a fortnight's time: Friday at the Brum SF Group meeting in the Britannia Hotel, Saturday at the BFS Open Night at the Cornerhouse. If that's not enough detail,

Friday 14th September
Brum Group
Commences at 7.45pm, but attendees are advised to get there 30
minutes before that.
Lichfield Room (second floor)
Britannia Hotel
New Street
Birmingham
(Entrance in Union Passage, almost opposite the Odeon cinema.  
Nearest main line station: New Street.)
Birmingham SF Group website: http://bsfg.freeservers.com/


Saturday 15th September
BFS Open Night
Commences at 6.30pm.
The Cornerhouse,
110 Edmund Street/Newhall Street,
Birmingham B3 3PU.

And then some others of us will be at FantasyCon in Nottingham the following weekend (21st-23rd). This is the point where the cool kids post their schedules, but I have no idea of mine, only that I'll be around. And I think we'll be doing a surreptitious launch of disLOCATIONS, as we couldn't get an official one. Seek us in the bar, basically.

And on my own account, the evening before that (Thursday 20th) I'll be helping to announce the Lit & Phil crime-story awards, assuming the other judges and I have not come to blows or other mayhem over the final decision; and this is early warning, Sunday Dec 2nd, I'll be reading at the Blue Room here in Newcastle. I couldn't swear to it, but I might be the first bloke ever to read there twice; it used to be women-only, but then I was invited to participate in their first men's event, some years ago now (was that the evening I chatted to David Almond about his upcoming first children's book, 'Skellig'? I think it might have been. That long ago...). These days it's fairly mixed, tho' still with a female bias; they scatter the men among the women now, rather than hiving us off to a ghetto night of our own. Whatever. It's still a privilege to be asked.

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[mantichore.livejournal.com]

I meant to attend FantasyCon this year, but going from Bordeaux to Nottingham is really a hurdle race. Too much trouble just for the two days. So, unless a miracle occurs at the eleventh hour, I'll pass. Boo-hoo.