National Flash Fiction Day - FlashFlood

My flash fiction, What goes on in the bushes, will appear on the FlashFlood journal at around 10:40 a.m. (BST) on Saturday, the 26th of June 2021 (National Flash Fiction Day 2021).
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NFFD Anthology 2021

At 7pm (BST) the NFFD Anthology 2021 ‘Legerdemain’ is launched!
Everyone is invited to the online launch of the 2021 UK NFFD anthology 'Legerdemain'. From 7 pm on the day, over thirty authors will be sharing their stories with you via YouTube. You will be able to access the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYUyp0Ylh1BXeFH_TJvHwcg

https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/2021/06/02/national-flash-fiction-day-2021-anthology-title-and-cover-reveal/

The FlashFlood Editors
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Behind the scenes video tours
9-13 June 2021 and available ONLINE - click the link below
All ages welcome, Free

Join Manchester writer Rosie Garland as she guides you through the libraries of Manchester, going behind the scenes with intimate tours and lots of fun along the way.
Or perhaps you’d rather get outside and enjoy the summer sunshine by taking our self-guided walking tours? Whether you’re a Manchester libraries aficionado or you’ve never ventured inside any of them before, you will learn something fascinating!

We’ve got extra special tours with novelist and poet Rosie Garland available to view right here. Featuring our heritage libraries: Central Library, Chetham’s Library, John Rylands Library and Research Institute, The Portico Library plus the brand new Manchester Poetry Library (part of Manchester Metropolitan University) which we know you’re keen to see before it opens to the public later this year!

https://www.manchestercityofliterature.com/event/tours-and-trails-with-rosie-garland/

Thrilled to be your guide for online, Behind the scenes video tours of Manchester's 5 Heritage Libraries!

For the Festival of Libraries - 9-13 June 2021 - but available anytime, ONLINE - click the link below.
All ages welcome, Free

"Join Manchester writer Rosie Garland as she guides you through the libraries of Manchester, going behind the scenes with intimate tours and lots of fun along the way.
Or perhaps you’d rather get outside and enjoy the summer sunshine by taking our self-guided walking tours? Whether you’re a Manchester libraries aficionado or you’ve never ventured inside any of them before, you will learn something fascinating!

We’ve got extra special tours with novelist and poet Rosie Garland available to view right here. Featuring our heritage libraries: Central Library, Chetham’s Library, John Rylands Library and Research Institute, The Portico Library plus the brand new Manchester Poetry Library (part of Manchester Metropolitan University) which we know you’re keen to see before it opens to the public later this year!"

https://www.manchestercityofliterature.com/event/tours-and-trails-with-rosie-garland/

Wigleaf top 50 longlist 2021

A lovely surprise – my story ‘Waiting for time to catch up’ is on the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist!
Thank you New Flash Fiction Review for publishing it, and big thanks to Shome Dasgupta, Molly Gaudrey & all the amazing readers at Wigleaf for their love for and dedication to very short fiction.
https://wigleaf.com
Read the story here - http://newflashfiction.com/rosy-garland/

Hannah’s Bookshelf - Festival of Libraries Special on NMFM 106.6fm

Saturday 5th June 2021
2-4pm BST

On Saturday 5th June, North Manchester FM's weekly literature show, Hannah's Bookshelf, is going to be entirely devoted to the upcoming Manchester City of Literature Festival of Libraries. Delighted to feature in the show, talking about my passion for libraries.

Hannah's Bookshelf is on North Manchester 106.6 FM, every Saturday 2-4pm. Hosted by Crumpsall-based writer and editor Hannah Kate.

https://northmanchester.fm/

‘Writing the North West’, Manchester Metropolitan University

Part of the Long Nineteenth Century Symposium
by Manchester Metropolitan University

Fri, June 4, 2021
2:00 PM – 7:00 PM BST

Delighted to present a paper ‘Manchester’s grime & grandeur in The Night Brother’.

About this event
In order to foster collaboration across the post-graduate community within the field of the long 19th century, this event seeks to explore some of the cross-thematic research priorities at the centre of doctoral studies. Each of these three panels offer opportunities to present and discuss cutting-edge approaches and findings to key topics of concern during a period of immense change that continues to inspire reflection. As such, the following themes will be addressed, consisting of short presentations, followed by round table discussions:
* New approaches to gender in the nineteenth century
* Reading the nineteenth-century North West.
* Decolonising methodologies in nineteenth-century studies.
In addition to these thematic panels, a Workshop on Navigating nineteenth-century Archives and Special Collections will also take place.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/long-nineteenth-century-symposium-tickets-152187648353

Neptune's Glitter House for WayWard Poets

Friday 28th of May, 7pm BST
Free event

Merman poet Serge Neptune hosts readings by poets Stuart McPherson, Chloe Proctor and Rosie Garland.

The most over the top poetry broadcast. On Zoom. Poets chill, drink wine, read work in glamorous outfits, hosted by your very gay Serge Neptune.

Register for the your free Zoom ticket here -
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neptunes-glitter-house-for-wayward-poets-2x04-tickets-153799738157?keep_tld=1

Iron Maidens W.I.
Sat, 15 May 2021
19:30 – 21:00 BST

We are delighted to welcome the inimitable Rosie Garland, aka Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen, for an evening with the lady behind the fangs

Novelist, cabaret artiste, poet, post-punk lead singer with the March Violets and all-round strong female character.

Rosie will join The Iron Maidens W.I. for an informal event to share her interesting and meandering path through life so far, from writing poetry about "What Girls Do in the Dark" to performing at goth gigs and burlesque festivals, beating throat cancer and writing three award winning novels: "The Palace of Curiosities" which takes readers into the freak show scene of Victorian London; "Vixen" set in the medieval Devon countryside during the black death; and "The Night Brother" who explores identity and sexual equality in Manchester during the late 19th century.

The Iron Maidens WI are a branch of the Women's Institute on Wirral, a WI with a difference. We are one of the so-called 'New Wave' of WIs and are a very diverse and welcoming group of women.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-rosie-garland-tickets-148507551083

https://www.facebook.com/events/1070521633473395/

I can safely say I never expected to share an anthology with Sappho & Oscar Wilde!
So I’m thrilled my story ‘You’ll Do’ is featured in ‘Queer: LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday’ edited by Frank Wynne.
https://headofzeus.com/books/9781789542332

Queer is an unabashed and unapologetic anthology, drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Rimbaud to Anaïs Nin, and from Armistead Maupin to Alison Bechdel, translator Frank Wynne has collected a hundred of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors.
Queer straddles the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out, Juno Dawson's reflections on gender and Oscar Wilde's 'De Profundis'.

An evening with Rosie Garland

Five Leaves Bookshop
Nottingham’s independent bookshop
Wednesday, 5th May
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - free event

In this event Rosie will read from ‘What Girls Do in the Dark’ and talk to Megan Taylor about her life and writing. She will also answer questions from the audience.
Free. Book via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/145051221107

https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/rosie-garland/

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