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Women in Comedy: Short Story Competition Winner
The Women in Comedy Festival Writing Competition invites entries in two categories: a short sketch or monologue, and a short story. The Skinny North is ... Read more »| 09 Nov 2016 -
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Lost for Words: What future for our libraries?
Libraries across the country are struggling to survive in a climate of budget cuts. Our writer reports from Warrington, where her childhood library faces an uncertain future Read more »| 07 Nov 2016 -
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Female friendship in Zadie Smith and Ferrante
Zadie Smith’s new novel Swing Time proves that fictional female friends are in with the popular crowd Complicated female relationships seem to be ever... Read more »| 04 Nov 2016 -
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Poetry News – Scotland, November 2016
Another delivery of poetry news for your perusal, covering page, stage, awards and even a live album from Salena Godden Read more »| 28 Oct 2016 -
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Cixin Liu: Sci-fi Beyond Borders
Chinese Sci-fi sensation Cixin Liu discusses the genre's cultural anomalies while visiting the UK to launch Death’s End, the final part of his Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, and introduce The Wandering Earth, a collection of short stories Read more »| 26 Oct 2016 -
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Role Reversal: Naomi Alderman on The Power
It's one simple change – the world's women develop the power to electrocute people at will. There is a reversal of gender roles, a transfer of power. Author Naomi Alderman discusses her speculative feminist sci-fi novel The Power Read more »| 24 Oct 2016
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C'mon, Man! The Booker's biggest controversies
The prestigious Man Booker Prize is awarded on 25 Oct, with Scottish author Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project an unexpected but deserving bookie's tip. In preparation, we look at the most controversial wins and near misses in the prize's history Read more »| 17 Oct 2016 -
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Manchester Literature Festival: Stories from Korea
This year's Manchester Literature Festival hosts two writers from the Korean peninsula: Sungju Lee, whose memoir Every Falling Star relates his experiences a... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
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Recurring Nightmare: Hans Fallada’s Lost Work
Nightmare in Berlin, the lost work of Hans Fallada – addict, womanizer, jailbird and thief – is finally published in English. Its trans... Read more »| 07 Oct 2016 -
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Dundee Literary Festival 2016: Join the party
Dundee Literary Festival has sure grown in its 10 years of life and its 2016 programme offers an absolutely stellar list of talent, including James Kelman, Jenni Fagan and Alan Cumming. Come and join the party this October Read more »| 04 Oct 2016 -
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From pulp to corsets: lesbian literary stereotypes
Vita Sackville-West was a writer who happily shunted the boundaries of literary form, along with the imposed norms of gender and sexuality. As her granddaugh... Read more »| 30 Sep 2016 -
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Bard is a Four-Letter Word
With National Poetry Day fast approaching, Director of the Scottish Poetry Library Asif Khan talks over some of the challenges faced by professional poets. Also, a heads-up on this months performances and print poetry Read more »| 29 Sep 2016 -
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25 Years of Glasgow Women's Library
As Glasgow Women's Library celebrate their 25th birthday, The Skinny takes a tour of the Bridgeton premises where all are welcome. We find a grassroots project of history and potential, that's making a real difference to its local community Read more »| 22 Sep 2016 -
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Helen Sedgwick on The Comet Seekers
In her acclaimed and inventive debut novel, Helen Sedgwick lights up the lives of characters through the ages by the trail of the great comets. She offers more traditional insight into The Comet Seekers by speaking to The Skinny Read more »| 21 Sep 2016 -
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The Good Immigrant: BAME Authors Unite
We publish three extracts from The Good Immigrant, an essential collection of 21 BAME writers confronting the issues of race and immigration in modern Britain: powerful, timely and unapologetic Read more »| 19 Sep 2016